Rod Fox

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| name = Rod Fox

| honorific-suffix = MLA

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1980}}

| birth_place = Whitecourt, Alberta{{cite web | url=http://edmonton-rutherford.wildrose.ca/rod_fox_lacombe_ponoka | title=Rod Fox: Lacombe-Ponoka | publisher=Wildrose.ca | access-date=July 6, 2015 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222701/http://edmonton-rutherford.wildrose.ca/rod_fox_lacombe_ponoka | url-status=dead }}

| residence = Lacombe

| office = MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka

| term_start = 2012

| term_end =2015

| predecessor = Ray Prins

| successor = Ron Orr

| party = Wildrose (2012-2014)
Alberta Progressive Conservative Party (2014-present)

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| profession = Insurance

| website = [http://www.rodfox.ca/ rodfox.ca]

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Rodney M. "Rod" Fox (born c. 1981){{cite web|url=http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/Election/Election_news/Rod_Fox_secures_Lacombe-Ponoka_for_Wildrose_148629005.html|title=Fox secures Lacombe-Ponoka for Wildrose|publisher=Red Deer Advocate|access-date=2013-06-07}} is a Canadian politician who is a former elected member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Lacombe-Ponoka.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/live-results-alberta-election-2012/article2405211/ Alberta Election 2012: Riding-by-riding results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424134137/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/live-results-alberta-election-2012/article2405211/ |date=2012-04-24 }}

Fox's professional background is in insurance, finance, marketing, managing, and business relations. Before his election as an MLA, Fox was employed as the sales manager in the four western provinces for the largest Canadian owned insurance premium finance company, IFS Inc.

Fox has served as a director on the Lacombe Economic Development Board, and ran as a candidate in the 2007 Lacombe municipal election. He is also a past policy director and past president of the federal Wetaskiwin Conservative Association, and a former director of communications for MP Blaine Calkins in 2009 and 2011.{{cite web|url=http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/rodney-fox/30/40/655|title=About Rod Fox|access-date=2013-06-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620213036/http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/rodney-fox/30/40/655|archive-date=2013-06-20}}

In the spring 2013 sitting of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Fox pushed the government to amend the rules governing condominiums.{{cite web|url=http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/letters/Condo_law_changes_help_Albertans_207545781.html|title=Condo law changes help Albertans|publisher=Red Deer Advocate|access-date=2013-06-05}} He also supported the federal government and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission changing the rules for cell phone companies regarding cell phone contracts in favour of consumers.{{cite web|url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/CRTC+even+further+cellphone+changes+minister+says/8473778/story.html|title=CRTC can go even further on cellphone changes, minister says|publisher=Calgary Herald|access-date=2013-06-07}}

On December 17, 2014, he was one of nine Wildrose MLAs who crossed the floor to join the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party caucus.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/9-wildrose-mlas-including-danielle-smith-cross-to-alberta-tories-1.2876412 "9 Wildrose MLAs, including Danielle Smith, cross to Alberta Tories"]. CBC News, December 17, 2014. Fox lost the PC nomination vote to Peter Dewit in Lacombe-Ponoka.{{cite web| url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/elections/alberta-votes/alberta-election-2015-wildrose-floor-crossers-punished-in-alberta-election-1.3062598| title = Alberta Election 2015: Wildrose floor-crossers punished in Alberta election {{!}} CBC News}}