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Val Roddick is a former
BC Liberal BC United (BCU), known from 1903 until 2023 as the British Columbia Liberal Party or BC Liberals, is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party has been described as conservative, neoliberal, and occupying a centre-right ...
Member of the Legislative Assembly, in the province of
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,
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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 Delta Hospital in her riding by
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was a significant factor in the 2003
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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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Biography - 38th Parliamentary Members
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