Fox was educated at the University of Guelph, and graduated from their Advanced Agriculture Leadership Program.
He worked as a farmer after graduation, and became a senior partner in Fox Farms of Bloomfield, Ontario.
[1] He served as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris's government for the next four years, and was chair of the PC Rural Caucus Advisory Committee.
Fox was upset by Liberal Ernie Parsons in the 1999 provincial election, losing by only 56 votes in the redistributed riding of Prince Edward—Hastings.
Fox thereafter continued to be a leading farmer in Prince Edward County, where he was considered to be a skilled sheepbreeder, and an expert evaluator of sale cattle.