John Angus

Who is John Angus?

John Angus is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a city councillor in Winnipeg from 1977 to 1988, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990. He returned to the Winnipeg City Council in 1992, and was a member of that body until 2004.

Angus was educated at the University of Winnipeg 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 real estate firm, as well as with holding a broker's license.

He was elected to the Winnipeg council for St. Norbert ward in 1977, and reached the office of Deputy Mayor 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 St. Norbert as a Liberal, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Gerry Mercier by 388 votes.