15 Facts About Blaine Calkins

Blaine Calkins was elected to Parliament for Wetaskiwin in 2006.

Blaine Calkins was born and raised in the Lacombe, Alberta area.

Blaine Calkins graduated from the University of Alberta in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science with specialization in zoology.

Blaine Calkins later became a tenured faculty member at Red Deer College.

Blaine Calkins began his career in politics as a member of the Lacombe Town Council, and as such has been involved with the board of directors of the Lacombe Municipal Ambulance Society, the board of directors for Family and Community Support Services, The Municipal Planning Commission, David Thompson Tourist Council and the Disaster Services Committee.

Blaine Calkins became a member of the Reform Party in 1996, and followed most of the party into the Canadian Alliance in 2000 and the Conservative Party in 2004.

Blaine Calkins served on the Candidate Nomination Committee for the Reform Party in Wetaskiwin in 1999, and joined the board of directors for the Alliance's riding nomination committee in 2000.

Blaine Calkins served as the chair for the Alberta caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada in both the 41st and 42nd Parliament.

From February 4,2016 to September 18,2017, Blaine Calkins was the chair of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

In January 2017, Blaine Calkins wrote a letter to then-Ethics Commissioner, Mary Dawson, highlighting a number of concerns he had about a trip Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had accepted to the Bahamas.

Blaine Calkins is the current chair of the Conservative Hunting and Angling Caucus.

Blaine Calkins has been actively working on addressing the rural crime issue in Canada.

In Fall of 2017 Blaine Calkins co-chaired the CPC Alberta MP Rural Crime Taskforce.

Blaine Calkins told students that he understood there was an impact on the environment from burning fossil fuels but he questioned whether burning fossil fuels "caused extreme weather events".

Blaine Calkins's concern was that they were introduced to junior youth.