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Angus Addison Chapter Analysis

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Growing up in a conservative household, Daniel Addison was nearly disowned when he started voting for the Liberals, and was kicked out when he started working for the Liberal party. For Daniel his life was on parliament hill, a place where he happily stays writing speeches for his party leader. But when caught his girlfriend of two years, Rachel, doing the nasty with the opposite house leader, Daniel left the hill right then and there. Moving to Cumberland to work as a professor for the University of Ottawa. But dedication to his party and fellow Canadians, Daniel had to find someone who would run for the Liberals in his new ridding, one in which the conservatives had a unanimous vote for the past five elections. Searching high and low he makes a deal with his landlord Angus McLintock that if he runs he would not win, will not have to do any work, would not even have to be in the country when the vote …show more content…

With only $157.23 in the campaign fund, Daniel team consists of Mariel the old Liberal candidate who lives in the nursing home, her beautiful granddaughter Lindsey, and Pete1 and Pete2, two millennial punk heads, engineering students who want to help out. Soon Canadians of Cumberland start realizing that Angus might be their guy. As most politicians are there for themselves first, party second, and the people third, Angus is different as he does not want to be there at all, he just does not want to teach English. With a shocking scandal that send voters into a tizzy, Angus might have a chance of winning, as Daniel fears knowing that parliament is not ready for this.
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For those who believe that Canadian politics are less exciting than their

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