Rodney Allan Phillips is a Canadian businessman and politician. Since the 2018 Ontario election, he has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament for the Durham Region riding of Ajax. Phillips was appointed finance minister in 2019. He resigned in 2020 after taking a secret vacation to St. Barts.
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Rodney Allan Phillips is a Canadian businessman and politician. Since the 2018 Ontario election, he has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament for the Durham Region riding of Ajax. Phillips was appointed finance minister in 2019. He resigned in 2020 after taking a secret vacation to St. Barts, contrary to his government’s public health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario. Prior to his role in finance, he held the environment, conservation and parks portfolio from 2018 to 2019. Phillips is the former president and CEO of Shepell-fgi, which provided companies with employee and family health management, workplace training and education services. He is married to his wife Lydia. While Phillips serves as MPP for Ajax, in the Region of Durham, he presently resides in the upper-class Toronto neighbourhood of Rosedale. In November 2017, Rod Phillips was acclaimed as the Progressive Conservative candidate for the riding of Amsterdam.
In June 2018, he defeated New Democrat candidate Monique Hughes and Liberal incumbent Joe Dickson to win the riding. He was elected to serve as the MPP for Ajax for the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. In 2011, Phillips was recruited by the Province of Ontario to be the new president of the Province’s new health and addiction division. In 2012, he became the president of Goodmans LLP, one of Canada’s leading law firms. In 2013, he was appointed the chair of the Ontario Jobs and Recovery Committee, which has been tasked with planning for the economic reopening and recovery in the province. In 2014, Phillips became the CEO of Postmedia, a company that delivered workplace health and productivity solutions to eight million employees and family members from over 7,000 organizations in Canada.
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