Val Roddick is a former

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Member of the Legislative Assembly, in the province of

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. She represented the riding of

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from 1999 to 2009. She was first elected in a Dec. 7, 1999 by-election to succeed Fred Gingell, before being re-elected in 2001 and 2005. As chair of the Select Standing Committee on Health from 2001 to 2003 and again in 2004/05, Roddick produced reports on health care that included restructuring of health authorities in 2001. The downsizing of

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in her riding by

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was a significant factor in the 2003 recall campaign against Roddick. After appearing to surpass the required 40 per cent of signatures, the recall petition was submitted to

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which ruled the petition was unsuccessful due to disqualification of more than 3,100 signatures, mostly by ineligible voters. On June 5, 2008, she announced that she would not seek re-election in the 2009 provincial election. Her family established a farm fertilizer business in 1971.

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