John Angus (born March 3, 1943 in

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) is a businessman and former

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in Manitoba,

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. He was a city councillor in Winnipeg from 1977 to 1988, and a member of the

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from 1988 to 1990.MLA Biographies - Living
''The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba'' He returned to the

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and the Manitoba Institute of Technology. He has served as an executive member of the Winnipeg Business Development Corporation, and was for a time the vice president of Comcheq, a national Canadian company providing computerized payroll services. He now owns an international software company and a

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firm, and holds a broker's license. He was elected to the Winnipeg council for St. Norbert ward (at the city's southern tip) in 1977, and reached the office of deputy

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in 1986. During his early years on the city council, he was associated with the now-defunct Independent Citizens' Election Committee, a right-wing organization which generally represented the interests of the city's developers and suburban residents. In the provincial election of 1988, he was elected to the provincial legislature for

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as a

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, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative

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by 388 votes. The Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in this election, and Angus sat as a member of the official opposition for the next two years. During his time in parliament, he argued that the Public Utilities Board of Manitoba should be granted greater review powers over

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. In the provincial election of 1990, he lost to Tory candidate

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by 117 votes, amid a general decline in support of the Liberal Party. Angus was re-elected to the city council in 1992. He supported the gradual elimination of the city's business tax, and the immediate elimination of city taxes on arts and amusement. He entered the race for

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in 1998, but withdrew before election day.

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, then the federal MP for

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, endorsed Angus in 2002. On January 12, 2004, Angus resigned from the city's Executive Policy Committee, one of the most important bodies in the city's governing structure. In 2008 Winnipeg named a major street in the

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neighbourhood in his honour.

Election results

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