Cam Calder

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New Zealand Parliament
Cam Calder
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for National Party list
In office
16 June 2009 – 20 September 2014
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2009–2011 49th List 58 National
2011 –2014 50th List 50 National

Calder became involved in politics in 2003, when he joined the National Party. [3] He held various internal offices, including as chair of the North Shore electorate committee. [9] He was involved in policy development for the party, proposing, unsuccessfully, at party conferences that the party develop a new growth measure to replace gross domestic product and taxation policy that included 100% write-offs for research and development. [9] [10]

In the 2008 general election Calder contested the Manurewa electorate and was ranked 58 on the party list. He lost his electorate and would have been elected as a list MP on the provisional results of the election, but the number of seats allocated to National dropped by one in the final count, preventing Calder from entering Parliament at that time. [6] [11] After the resignation of list MP Richard Worth in June 2009, Calder was elected in his place. [12] [13] Calder re-contested Manurewa in 2011 and lost, but was returned for a full term as a list MP. [14]

Calder was a member of the law and order committee and the local government and environment committee during his first term. From December 2011 until February 2013, he was a member of the health committee and deputy chair of the justice and electoral committee. Thereafter until his retirement in 2014 he was a member of the transport and industrial relations committee and chair of the education and science committee. [15] In 2012, Calder's private member's bill banning high-powered laser pointers in a public place was introduced into parliament; it became law in July 2014 with cross-party support. [16] [17] [18]

Calder announced in October 2013 that he was going to retire from parliament at the 2014 general election. [19] He was replaced as Manurewa candidate by Simeon Brown. [20] After leaving Parliament, Calder acted as an observer in the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election. [21]

Political views

Calder said he would vote "no" (that a smack as part of good parental correction should not be a criminal offence in New Zealand) in the 2009 New Zealand child discipline referendum. [22] He supported increasing the purchase age for alcohol to 20 years. [23] [24] He voted in favour of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013. [25] In 2021 he wrote an op-ed for The New Zealand Herald denouncing what he described as "the current, fashionable tropes of critical race theory, cultural Marxism and the denigration of colonisation" in the new New Zealand history curriculum. [26]

Notes

  1. ↑ Normally, list MPs do not have individual predecessors or successors, but Worth resigned during a sitting parliament and therefore was succeeded by Calder.

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  2. 1 2 "Calder, Cam: Maiden Statements". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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  11. ↑ "Graham becomes Greens' ninth MP, as Nats lose out". RNZ . 22 November 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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  13. ↑ "John Key statement on Richard Worth". The New Zealand Herald . 12 June 2009.
  14. ↑ "Official Count Results -- Successful Candidates". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  15. ↑ "Calder, Cam". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  16. ↑ "Labour calls for hand-held laser ban". NZ Herald. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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  18. ↑ "Summary Offences (Possession of Hand-held Lasers) Amendment Bill 2013: Bills Digest No 2100". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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