James Thomas "Jim" Rabbitt (born May 22, 1941 in

Princeton, British Columbia Princeton is a town municipality in the Similkameen Country, Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, Canada. The former mining and railway hub lies at the confluence of the Tulameen River, Tulameen into the Similkameen River, just east o ...

) is a Canadian businessman and former politician. He represented

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in the

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from 1986 to 1991 as a

Social Credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made t ...

member. He is the son of Patrick J. Rabbitt, and was educated at the

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. In 1961, Rabbitt married Eileen A. Goldie. He was an alderman for Merritt and was mayor from 1980 to 1984. Rabbitt served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Labour and Consumer Services. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1991 as a Social Credit member and again in 1996 as a Liberal, losing to Harry Lali each time. In 1988, he chaired a special legislative committee charged with reviewing the distribution of electoral districts in British Columbia. In 1989, he published ''Taking action: a strategy for the management of solid wastes'' as chair of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Task Force.

Electoral history

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