The Best Laid Plans

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The peccadilloes of Parliament Hill's political animals animate Terry Fallis's comic first novel. Engineering professor Angus McLintock agrees to run in an election he's sure to lose, but then the unthinkable happens and federal politics will never be the same. In this pointed and irreverent political satire, the best laid plans are giddily undone, and perhaps for the better, as idealism and pragmatism clash in the corridors of power.

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The Best Laid Plans won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for humour. The book wonCanada Reads 2011, where itwas defended by Ali Velshi.

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Author interviews

Canada Reads16:30"The Best Laid Plans" author Terry Fallis interview on the Next Chapter

Canada Reads author Terry Fallis talks to Shelagh Rogers about The Best Laid Plans.

Terry Fallis' The Best Laid Plans debuts on TV

11 years ago

Duration 3:37

Canada Reads-winning author on turning his hit book into a TV miniseries

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Radio 21:28Shift: Terry summarizes his book

Canada Reads author Terry Fallis summarizes the story of his book, The Best Laid Plans.

Canada Reads19:46Canada Reads 2011: Author Terry Fallis reads from "the Best Laid Plans"

Terry Fallis reads from his novel, The Best Laid Plans.

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