Nicholas Julian Whalen (born June 6, 1973) is a Canadian Liberal politician, who represented the riding of St. John's East in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 until 2019.
[3] He attended Queen's University's engineering school, earning both undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field.
He then earned an LLB degree in 2001 from the McGill University Faculty of Law.
He was also, at the time of his election, the only qualified patent agent, and worked with a number of charitable organizations.
[5][6][7] In October 2016, Whalen responded to comments over Twitter by Earle McCurdy about the protests opposing the Lower Churchill Project over concerns of methylmercury being spilled into Lake Melville.