Doug Rollins

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E.J. Douglas Rollins (born in Gillead, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.

Rollins was educated at Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph. He worked as a farmer after graduation, and also purchased a local gas station in 1974.

Rollins first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, but finished third in Quinte against incumbent Liberal Hugh O'Neil and a New Democratic Party candidate. He ran in the same riding in the 1995 Ontario election, and defeated Liberal George Zegouras by over 2,000 votes in a provincial PC victory. For the next four years, he sat as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris's government.

In 1996, the Harris government reduced the number of provincial ridings from 130 to 103. In some cases, this forced incumbent MPPs from the same party to compete against one another for re-nomination. Rollins ran for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the new riding of Prince Edward—Hastings, but lost to fellow MPP Gary Fox.

He ran for the local PC nomination again in the 2003 provincial election, but lost to John Williams.