Paul Calandra
| Paul Calandra | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Oak Ridges—Markham |
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In office October 14, 2008 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Lui Temelkovski |
| Succeeded by | riding abolished |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and for Intergovernmental Affairs | |
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In office September 19, 2013 – November 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Dean Del Mastro |
| Succeeded by | Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Adam Vaughan (Intergovernmental Affairs), Peter Schiefke (Youth) |
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May 13, 1970 Markham, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Residence | Stouffville, Ontario |
| Profession | insurance broker |
Paul A. Calandra (born May 13, 1970) is a Canadian former politician. He was first elected to represent the electoral district of Oak Ridges—Markham in the 2008 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and in the past has been involved in the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the Canadian Alliance. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and for Intergovernmental Affairs.
In the 2015 federal election, he was a candidate in the Markham—Stouffville riding, created as a result of the federal electoral redistribution of 2012 and was defeated by Jane Philpott.
Calandra studied History with a minor in Political Science at Carleton University. His claim on his campaign website in 2007 to have "complet(ed) full-time university studies" was controversial since, at that time he had not graduated. In an interview with WhiStle Radio on September 29, 2015 he stated that he left school in the early '90s before completing his degree and had later obtained the remaining credits required to graduate by correspondence course. He obtained his BA from Carleton in November 2008.
Prior to entering politics, Calandra was an insurance broker, from 1995 to 2003. He then served as chief of staff to Steve Gilchrist, who served as the Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP for Scarborough East in the government of Mike Harris.
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