1. Paul Calandra previously served as the minister of municipal affairs and housing from 2023 to 2025, the minister of long-term care from 2022 to 2023, and Government House Leader from 2019 to 2024.
27 Facts About Paul Calandra
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Paul Calandra previously sat in the federal House of Commons from 2008 to 2015 for the Conservative Party, serving as a parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2013 to 2015.
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Paul Calandra obtained a bachelor's degree from Carleton in November 2008.
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Paul Calandra then served as chief of staff to Steve Gilchrist, who was the PC MPP for Scarborough East in the Mike Harris government.
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Paul Calandra's sisters alleged that he had charged $8,000 to his mother's credit card without her knowledge.
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The sisters alleged that Paul Calandra took $25,000 from his mother to pay taxes, but instead wrote the cheque to himself and left the taxes unpaid.
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Paul Calandra ran as the Canadian Alliance candidate in the 2000 federal election in the Toronto riding of Scarborough East.
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Paul Calandra was defeated by Liberal incumbent John McKay by 16,460 votes.
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Paul Calandra defeated Liberal incumbent Lui Temelkovski by 545 votes.
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Paul Calandra was re-elected in 2011 defeating Temelkovski again, this time by 20,680 votes.
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Paul Calandra was re-elected in the 2011 election and was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of Canadian heritage and official languages where he sat on the Standing Committee for Canadian Heritage and formerly the Standing Committee on Bill C-11.
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In 2012 Paul Calandra was forced to repay $5,000 that his riding association had received in donations at a fundraiser held at the home of Kirupalini Kirupakaran, at which he had been present.
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Paul Calandra had pledged to the CRTC that she would invest up to $2,000,000 in WorldBand Media should it win the competition.
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Immediately prior to The Globe and Mail's publication of the article questioning the WorldBand donations Paul Calandra confirmed that his riding association was reviewing the Antony contribution.
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In September 2013 Paul Calandra was appointed parliamentary secretary to the prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs.
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On September 23,2014, Paul Calandra's repeated refusal to acknowledge questions about Canada's involvement in Iraq led the Opposition leader, Thomas Mulcair to question the integrity of the speaker of the House, Andrew Scheer, who did not intervene.
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On September 26,2014, Paul Calandra gave a tearful speech in Parliament to "unconditionally, unreservedly apologize to the House".
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Subsequently, Paul Calandra blocked Critch from accessing his posts on Twitter.
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Paul Calandra later said that blocking of Mason had been accidental and subsequently unblocked him.
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Paul Calandra entered the debate on the future of the Pickering Airport lands that had previously been expropriated by the Government of Canada.
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Paul Calandra expressed support for a Buttonville sized airport on the lands in contrast to the position taken by all his opponents.
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In September 2016 Paul Calandra announced that he would be seeking the Ontario PC nomination for the provincial riding of Markham-Stouffville.
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On November 11, it was announced that Paul Calandra won the nomination and would represent the PCs in the 2018 provincial election.
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On June 29,2018, Paul Calandra was appointed as the parliamentary assistant to the minister of energy, northern development and mines.
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Paul Calandra was appointed to the provincial cabinet of Premier Doug Ford in 2019 as government house leader and minister without portfolio.
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Paul Calandra was later promoted to a full minister in 2021, becoming the first minister of legislative affairs.
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In 2022, Paul Calandra assumed the role of minister of long-term care, following the resignation of Rod Philips.