Michael Kram
- Born
- December 20, 1978
- Family
- Engaged to Rechel Capoquian in 2025
- Education
- Bachelor of Science degree majoring in computer science and a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in economics from the University of Regina. Studied economics at Carleton University in Ottawa.
- Career
- Worked for 20 years in the information technology sector, including a number of contract positions with the Department of National Defence. Worked for over 17 years as a programmer/analyst with Paradigm Consulting. Also worked as an extra and bit-part actor in a number of Canadian movies and TV shows.
- Political Experience
- Elected as a Conservative to represent the riding of Regina—Wascana in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Ran as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the constituency of Regina—Wascana in the 2015 Canadian federal election.
- Notable
- Dreamed of becoming a Member of Parliament since elementary school.
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Michael Kram won with 22,072 votes (50.1%)
Total votes cast: 44,077
Okay, but it is more than zero.
Can you elaborate on what is being done to ensure a greater degree of consistency in accepting and rejecting ballots?
That perhaps explains the lower rejection rate, but that's speculation of course. At this committee we've had many discussions about the longest ballot committee and proposed changes to the signature sheets for becoming a candidate. Would you be able to table with this committee the signature sheets for the Terrebonne by-election?
Can you provide any more insight? For instance, I don't understand why the reject rate would be higher for just marking an X versus writing someone's name. Could you explain why that would be possible? Do you think that these are all protests, or were there maybe fewer disputes in the by-election for some other reason?
In that case, I would like to thank the witnesses for their time and insights.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us today. Mr. Perrault, in your opening statement, you talked a little bit about the by-election in Terrebonne. I'd just like to follow up on that a little bit. I understand that particular by-election is going to have write-in ballots, the same system that was used in Battle River—Crowfoot. Could you just explain a little about how [more]
My concern is that in Battle River—Crowfoot, the result was a bit of a landslide. In Terrebonne, there was a by-election because of one vote. Are we not setting ourselves up for more opportunities for disputes in the actual counting of the ballots and even yet another by-election based on the change in the voting system?
Very good. Mr. Chair, how am I doing for time?
Mr. Speaker, we should be extracting those reserves out of the ground and exporting them to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, the Liberals have killed the northern gateway pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, the energy east pipeline, all of which could be exporting Canadian oil at $100 a barrel to the rest of the world. How much higher does the price have to go before the Liberals flip-flop [more]
Minister of Natural Resources Mr. Speaker, thepromised that Canada would “do its part” to help release oil reserves in order to stabilize the market, but Canada does not have a strategic oil reserve, in part because of Liberal energy policies that have kept Canadian oil and gas in the ground. Conservatives have proposed a strategic oil stockpile that would allow us to fuel our friends abroad, [more]
Yes, and that's fair. If you've been hired to do the job, perhaps it's not your place to decide whether the job should exist in the first place, but I was wondering if you've ever studied and made recommendations to the minister about what would happen if the debates commission did not exist in the first place.