John Barlow was elected as a Member of Parliament to represent the federal riding of Macleod on June 30, 2014, and was re-elected in 2015 and 2019 to the newly formed riding of Foothills. He currently sits as a Member of the Standing Committee on Health and was elected Chair for the Canada-Scotland Parliamentary Friendship group for the 43rd Parliament.

John is also the co-Chair of the Conservative Opioid Addiction Working Group studying the impacts of opioid use on the Canadian public and researching methods to reduce its harmful usage in Canada.

John has served as Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food, Interprovincial Trade and Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.  He has often spoken about the mental health crisis in agriculture advocating for better mental health access for our farmers and ranchers and is committed to improving mental health supports in Canada.

John grew up in rural Saskatchewan and raised his family in southern Alberta. Before being elected to office in 2014, John had a 20-year career as an award-winning journalist with the Calgary Sun, High River Times and served as the Associate Publisher and Editor for the Okotoks Western Wheel. John and his wife Louise have three children, Graeden, Kinley, and McKenna, and they live in Okotoks.