Donald Stovel Macdonald
1932–2018 (age 86)
Biography
Donald Stovel Macdonald (1 March 1932 – 14 October 2018) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat. Macdonald was a long-time Liberal party Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister. In the early 1980s, he headed a royal commission (known as the Macdonald Commission) which recommended that Canada enter a free trade agreement with the United States. From 1988 to 1991, Macdonald served as High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom before returning to his law practice in Toronto.