24 Facts About Keith Hutchings

Keith Hutchings, is former a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Keith Hutchings was born the youngest of six children in Mobile, a community on the south coast of the Avalon Peninsula.

Keith Hutchings attended Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in political science and a minor in history.

Keith Hutchings has a Certificate in Public Administration from MUN, and has completed an Occupational Health and Safety Program from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Ontario.

Keith Hutchings spent 11 years working with the Workplace Health Safety and Compensation Commission.

Keith Hutchings later announced he would seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the district.

Keith Hutchings defeated seven other candidates to win the nomination, taking 1,135 votes out of the 2,902 ballots cast.

Keith Hutchings was challenged by two others for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the lead up to the October 2011, provincial election.

Keith Hutchings was re-elected in the provincial election with 72 per cent of the popular vote.

Keith Hutchings was appointed as the minister of the newly formed Department of Innovation, Business and Rural Development on 28 October 2011.

Keith Hutchings said the move simplified the system for businesses and community groups, with one business advocate agreeing that this would make it easier for companies to get money.

Keith Hutchings' department was responsible for representing the provincial government during negotiations on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The tentative trade agreement was announced on 18 October 2013, nine days after Keith Hutchings became the province's Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.

In return for eliminating MPRs for the European Union, which the federal government wanted, Keith Hutchings tried to get Fast to agree to a number of proposals in return.

At a news conference on 23 April 2013, Keith Hutchings announced that completed access-to-information requests would now be posted online, as well as orders in council.

At the news conference Keith Hutchings said that the government would look at routinely disclosing all contracts, grants and contributions above a certain dollar amount, but had no time frame to do so.

Keith Hutchings replaced Derrick Dalley who was appointed Minister of Natural Resources, after just one year at Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Keith Hutchings was the seventh minister appointed to the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture in ten years.

On 30 October 2013, Keith Hutchings joined Premier Dunderdale at The Rooms in St John's to announce the $400 million fund for the fishery, which he had negotiated as Minister of Innovation, Business and Rural Development.

On 30 September 2014, Keith Hutchings was appointed Minister of Municipal and Intergovernmental Affairs by Premier Paul Davis.

The meeting was to discuss the province's concerns over the $400 million fisheries fund that Keith Hutchings had helped negotiate as part of Canada's free trade agreement with the European Union.

The Davis government was defeated in the 2015 provincial election, although Keith Hutchings was re-elected in Ferryland.

Keith Hutchings was appointed by the PC Caucus as Opposition House Leader in the House of Assembly.

Keith Hutchings did not run for re-election in the 2019 election.