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Hoy is a farmer in the Chatham area. He served as President of the Kent Federation of Agriculture from 1984 to 1985, and was a member of the Crop Insurance Commission of Ontario from 1987 to 1995 (serving as its Vice-Chair in 1992 and 1993). He is also a founder of the Kent County Agricultural Hall of Fame, and has been a director of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture .

Hoy was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election for the riding of Essex--Kent , defeating Progressive Conservative George Kennedy by about 2000 votes (incumbent New Democrat Pat Hayes was a close third). The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Hoy served as his party's agriculture critic for the next four years.

Because of redistribution, Hoy was forced to face another incumbent, Progressive Conservative Jack Carroll , in new riding of CKE in the 1999 provincial election. Hoy scored a convincing victory, winning by 8001 votes. The Tories again won the election, and Hoy continued to serve as his party's agriculture critic until 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, when he was transferred to transportation.

Hoy was easily re-elected in the provincial election of 2003The province of Ontario, Canada conducted a general election on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Ernie Eves after the governing, which the Liberals won. He was not appointed to cabinet, but became Chair of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs in December of that year.

Hoy is known to hold some socially conservativeSocial conservatism is a belief in traditional morality and social mores and the desire to preserve these in present day society, often through civil law or regulation. Social change is generally regarded as suspect, while social values based on tradition views, including being pro-life on abortionAbortion in its most common usage, refers to the destruction of an embryo and its removal from the uterus. Medically, the term also refers to the early termination of a pregnancy by natural causes ("spontaneous abortion" or miscarriage, which ends one in.