Blaine F. Calkins MP (born December 25, 1968) is a Conservative member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada.
He 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.
[citation needed] Calkins served as the chair for the Alberta caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada in both the 41st and 42nd Parliament.
[citation needed] From February 4, 2016 to September 18, 2017, Calkins was the chair of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
[4][5] In January 2017, 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.
[6][7] On December 20, 2017, the Ethics Commissioner released her report, finding Trudeau had violated multiple sections of the Conflict of Interest Act.
Calkins put forward a Private Members Bill, C-458,[17] which seeks to make remoteness an aggravating factor at sentencing, in response to what he called an “insulting” report from the Committee on Public Safety.