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Meet the candidate: Blaine Calkins, Conservative Party of Canada
Blaine Calkins says he’s as motivated to be a Member of Parliament today as he was when he first ran in 2006.
“The same things that motivated be back then are motivating me now,” he says.
“Responsible governance, I want to focus on keeping our economy strong, creating jobs and growth. I was motivated to get rid of the wheat board monopoly back in the day, and we still have a number of problems with our agricultural sector,” he says. “We’ve lost market access… I want to regain those markets for our canola producers, beef producers, lentil producers, and pork producers.”
On the oil and gas sector, Calkins adds, “It makes absolutely no sense that we’re not trading east and west with our fellow Canadians when it comes to energy. There’s not one molecule of Alberta energy in a gas tank in Atlantic Canada and that doesn’t make any sense to me.”