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Blaine Calkins

Member of Parliament
Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
Conservative

Red Deer—Lacombe
Alberta
Voting Attendance: 66%
Expenses Last Quarter: $146,499.79

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Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)

Feb/3/23 11:50:03 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, in 2022, five Canadian police officers were killed in a deadly 37-day stretch. The president of the Police Association of Ontario has called this “unprecedented”. All the while, shootings continue in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Drugs, guns and contraband continue to flow across the border, and repeat offenders are out on bail, allowed to continue harming society unmitigated. We know that the Prime Minister has been convicted of two ethics offences on separate occasions in the last eight years. Is that why the government is so afraid to deal with repeat offenders?

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Context: House Hansard - 153 - Feb/3/23

Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)

Feb/3/23 11:48:48 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, after eight long years of the current government, crime has surged to a level not seen in decades. Not only are communities subjected to daily shootings and stabbings, but now they worry about random attacks in their subways. Rapists are let out on bail the same day the police take them down to the courthouse. Public safety is not some graduate project for a criminologist; its implementation has deadly consequences if we do not get it right. Instead of creating repeat victims, why does the current government not listen to the provinces and deal with repeat offenders?

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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23

Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)

Jan/30/23 2:09:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been eight years since the Prime Minister took office, and his soft-on-crime policies have unleashed a crime wave in Canada. The government has made life easier for violent criminals by providing easy access to bail and repealing mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes. As a result, violent crime has gone up 32% in the past year, and gang-related killings have gone up by 92% since 2015. Furthermore, Liberals have failed to stop the flow of illegal firearms across the border. As a consequence, five police officers have tragically lost their lives this past fall in the line of duty. Our communities feel less safe, and the government is making it worse. Despite their dismal record, Liberals recently initiated a ban on hunting rifles and shotguns, making thousands of these firearms illegal. Hunters, farmers and target shooters are not the problem; Liberals are the problem. This Liberal made-in-Canada crime wave must stop. Only a Conservative government will do what is necessary to keep violent criminals off our streets.

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Context: House Hansard - 139 - Dec/1/22

Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)

Dec/1/22 2:10:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since the government took office in 2015, gang-related homicides have increased by 92%. The Liberals reduced sentencing requirements for serious gun crimes and now violent crime is up 32%. The Liberals will not admit their soft-on-crime approach is failing all Canadians. Last week, the government initiated a ban on rifles and shotguns. This will ban hundreds of thousands of firearms in Canada that are used for hunting. The ban includes slow-to-fire guns and purpose-built hunting firearms that are designed to shoot birds or deer. It said it would not, but it did. There is no trust in the government. Instead of addressing gang crime and gun smuggling, the government is vilifying hunters and farmers. The Liberals know Canadian hunters are not causing the crime surge in Canada, but they are going after them anyway because it is all about politics and not fighting crime. Their ill-conceived plans to go after hunters is the largest attack on law-abiding firearms owners in Canadian history. It is a direct attack on our Canadian cultural heritage. The Conservatives will always stand up for victims, go after gangs and smugglers and trust Canada's law-abiding gun owners.

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