Rob Hutchison
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Rob Hutchison is a Canadian politician and a city councillor since 2006 in Kingston City Council. He campaigned for the New Democratic Party in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections. He was 56 years old in 2006.
Hutchison was born in Belleville, Ontario and was raised near Ottawa (Kingston Whig-Standard, 26 June 2004). He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Queen's University from 1974, and a diploma in Social services administration and certificate in Municipal administration from St. Lawrence College. He is president of the Kingston Community Options Funds and Kingcole Homes Inc., a member of the City of Kingston Not-For-Profit Housing advisory Group and the Kingston Not-For-Profit Housing Association, and past president of the Kingston Global Community Centre.[1][2] Hutchison is also a co-founder of PIC Press, a local community newspaper [information from 2004 campaign brochure].
Hutchison campaigned for Kingston's Public Utilities Commission in 1991, and finished sixth in a field of twelve candidates. The top four candidates were declared elected (Kingston Whig-Standard, 13 November 1991). He later campaigned for Kingston City Council in 1997, and lost to Ken Matthews in a close contest in Ward Eight (KWS, 12 November 1997). In 1996, he argued before a provincial committee against the Mike Harris's governments proposed changes to Ontario's labour laws (KWS, 29 August 1996).
He won the NDP nomination in 2004 over retired electrical engineer Bill Fisher and Queen's student Ian Griffiths (KWS, 26 March 2004), and finished third against Liberal incumbent Peter Milliken. He faced Milliken again in the 2006 election, and received 11,946 votes (19.19%), again placing third.
He won election to Kingston City Council in the 2006 Ontario municipal elections, for a four-year term, for the King's Town district (map), of which he is a long-time resident.
Hutchison is also a keen chess player of near Candidate Master strength, and has organized chess in the Kingston region.
