Cam Calder
{{Short description|New Zealand doctor and politician}}
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Campbell Gordon Calder{{cite web |url= http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/5/c/4/49HansD_20081208_00000010-Members-Sworn.htm |title= New Zealand Hansard - Members Sworn Volume:651;Page:2 |publisher= New Zealand Parliament |access-date= 27 November 2009 |archive-date= 23 February 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130223070945/http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/5/c/4/49HansD_20081208_00000010-Members-Sworn.htm |url-status= dead }} (born 1952), known as Cam Calder, is a New Zealand doctor and former politician. He was a National Party Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2014.
Early life and career
Calder was brought up in New Plymouth by his mother; his father had died when he was six. He has two brothers and a sister. He was educated at Westown School, New Plymouth Boys’ High School, and the University of Otago, where he studied dental surgery.{{cite web |title=Calder, Cam: Maiden Statements |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/49HansS_20090702_00000960/calder-cam-maiden-statements |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=New Zealand Parliament}} He undertook postgraduate study in dentistry at the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and—while running his own dental practice at the same time—retrained in medicine at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.{{cite web |date=26 March 2024 |title=Scoop's Meet The MPs Project: Cam Calder |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00210/scoops-meet-the-mps-project-cam-calder.htm |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=Scoop News}} During his medical study, Calder lost the sight in one eye through an accident. He was an emergency medicine doctor in England and, after returning home in the early 1990s, New Zealand.{{cite web |last=Cheng |first=Derek |date=20 May 2011 |title=MPs love property and petanque |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mps-love-property-and-petanque/T5WBKBFXN5KJAL3AGRZLH7FENA/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }} Immediately before his election to parliament in 2009, he was working as clinical research director for a medical and sporting equipment company.
Calder lived in France for a period beginning in 2001. He served as president of the French New Zealand Business Council and has also served on the international governing body for pétanque. He takes credit for being one of the people who "imported" pétanque into New Zealand.{{cite news |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10578714 |title=Doctor MP nurses special interest in men's health and 'man-ograms' |last=Trevett |first=Claire |date=16 June 2009 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=22 September 2011}} He represented New Zealand at the 1995 Pétanque World Championships in Brussels, Belgium; the team finished 36th.{{cite web |title=Representative Honours » PNZ |url=https://www.petanquenz.com/representation/representative-honours.html#RepEvents |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503224442/https://www.petanquenz.com/representation/representative-honours.html |archive-date=3 May 2024 |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=Pétanque New Zealand}}{{cite web |date=27 March 2003 |title=Petanque: (Almost) beating them at their own game |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/petanque-almost-beating-them-at-their-own-game/ETGU4KXB52FSGQUD6Q4SPI7WG4/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }}
Member of Parliament
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Calder became involved in politics in 2003, when he joined the National Party. He held various internal offices, including as chair of the North Shore electorate committee.{{cite web |last=O'Sullivan |first=Fran |date=4 August 2007 |title=Fran O'Sullivan: Nats plot conservative course |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ifran-osullivani-nats-plot-conservative-course/L4AOJW2DMRIKXJJH3GU5SK7U6U/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }} 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.{{cite web |date=2 May 2006 |title=Quality of life: a challenge to National's policymakers |url=http://www.colinjames.co.nz/2006/05/02/quality-of-life-a-challenge-to-nationals-policymakers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206182051/http://www.colinjames.co.nz/2006/05/02/quality-of-life-a-challenge-to-nationals-policymakers/ |archive-date=6 December 2023 |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=Colin James}}
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.{{cite web |url= http://www.guide2.co.nz/politics/news/national-party-welcomes-new-member/11/8639 |title=National Party Welcomes New Member |date=12 June 2009}}{{cite web |date=22 November 2008 |title=Graham becomes Greens' ninth MP, as Nats lose out |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/29496/graham-becomes-greens%27-ninth-mp,-as-nats-lose-out |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=RNZ }} After the resignation of list MP Richard Worth in June 2009, Calder was elected in his place.{{cite web |date=15 August 2014 |title=Dr Cam Calder |url=http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/mpp/mps/current/50MP169881/calder-cam |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623225750/http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/mpp/mps/current/50MP169881/calder-cam |archive-date=23 June 2014 |accessdate=19 September 2014 |publisher=New Zealand Parliament}}{{Cite news |date=12 June 2009 |title=John Key statement on Richard Worth |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10578093 |work=The New Zealand Herald}} Calder re-contested Manurewa in 2011 and lost, but was returned for a full term as a list MP.{{cite web |title=Official Count Results -- Successful Candidates |url=https://archive.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2011/successfulcand.html |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=New Zealand Electoral Commission}}
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.{{cite web |title=Calder, Cam |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/former-members-of-parliament/calder-cam/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=New Zealand Parliament}} 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.{{cite web |date=23 April 2013 |title=Labour calls for hand-held laser ban |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-calls-for-hand-held-laser-ban/AP2MGCMKKSBY5BTKWF6XEOE5ZI/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }}{{cite web |last=Cheng |first=Derek |date=23 July 2014 |title=Law comes down heavily on hand-held laser pointers |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/law-comes-down-heavily-on-hand-held-laser-pointers/DP7MC2SRJ5F45OE73FUVDZEDEI/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }}{{cite web |title=Summary Offences (Possession of Hand-held Lasers) Amendment Bill 2013: Bills Digest No 2100 |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-digests/document/50PLLaw21001/summary-offences-possession-of-hand-held-lasers-amendment |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=New Zealand Parliament}}
Calder announced in October 2013 that he was going to retire from parliament at the 2014 general election.{{cite news |last=Vance |first=Andrea |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9326262/National-MPs-to-retire |title=National MPs to retire |date=25 October 2013 |work=stuff.co.nz |accessdate=28 October 2013}} He was replaced as Manurewa candidate by Simeon Brown.{{cite web |date=26 March 2024 |title=National selects Simeon Brown as Manurewa candidate |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1406/S00345/national-selects-simeon-brown-as-manurewa-candidate.htm |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=Scoop News}} After leaving Parliament, Calder acted as an observer in the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election.{{cite web |title= Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2015 Observer Arrival Statement| url= http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/sri-lanka-presidential-election-2015-arrival-statement |publisher= Commonwealth |accessdate= 31 January 2015 }}
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.{{cite web |last=Trevett |first=Claire |date=31 July 2009 |title=Referendum waste of time, say MPs |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/referendum-waste-of-time-say-mps/5KDE4CXPG6D47CT46GBI5VTZAI/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }} He supported increasing the purchase age for alcohol to 20 years.{{cite web |last=Davison |first=Isaac |date=8 May 2012 |title=New MPs dilute alcohol bill backing |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-mps-dilute-alcohol-bill-backing/7JVIKBRSH4552UUI7HF2W5UY4M/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }}{{cite web |title=Alcohol Reform Bill |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/50HansD_20120830_00000020 |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=New Zealand Parliament}} He voted in favour of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013.{{cite web |date=17 April 2013 |title=Gay marriage: How MPs voted |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gay-marriage-how-mps-voted/WLPKK4734FBZEKJIDHBFO4MWFA/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }} 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.{{cite web |last=Calder |first=Cam |date=4 May 2021 |title=History curriculum 'woefully lacks detail' |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/cam-calder-history-of-nz-curriculum-woefully-lacking-in-detail/WF5I7OYOVWY4AWYIVAPLD2JS7M/ |access-date=3 May 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111130060847/http://www.camcalder.co.nz/ Dr Cam Calder MP] official site
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110818014123/http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=8688 Profile] at National party
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Category:People educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Category:New Zealand medical doctors
Category:New Zealand sports executives and administrators
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:New Zealand National Party MPs
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 2008 New Zealand general election
Category:Candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election