Donald S. Macdonald Senior Advisor, Public Policy Toronto Tel : 416.307.4241 Fax : 416.865.7048 Email : donald.macdonald@mcmillan.ca VCard :

Honorary Degrees

• Doctor of Laws: Universities of Carleton, New Brunswick at Saint John, St. Lawrence, Toronto, University of Toronto 
• Doctor of Engineering: Colorado School of Mines
• Doctor of Sacred Letters - Trinity College, University of Toronto

Academic Achievements

• Insurance Law Prize, Law Society, 1955 
• Rowell Fellowship of Canadian Institute of International Affairs to Cambridge University, 1956-1957

Awards

• Member of Queen's Privy Council for Canada
• Freeman of the City of London
• Companion of the Order of Canada

Special Designations

• Member of Parliament, Toronto - Rosedale, 1962-1978
• President of Privy Council
• Minister of National Defence
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
• Minister of Finance
• Chairman, Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, 1982-1985
• Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1988-1991
• Chairman, Advisory Committee on Competition in Ontario's Electricity System, 1995-1996

Professional Activities

Current

• Senior Advisor, Public Policy of the firm
  as of 2002
• Member of the firm's Business Law group

Former

• Senior Advisor of UBS Securities Canada Inc.
• Chair, Atlantic Council of Canada
• Chair, International Development Research Centre
• Chair, Institute for Research on Public Policy
• Chair, The Design Exchange
• Chair, Institute of Corporate Directors
• Chair, Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships

Teaching Engagements

• Part-time Lecturer, University of Toronto Law School:
• Public Policy Formation, 1979-1982
• International Trade Law, 1986-1988

Directorships and Business Interests

Past Directorships:

• Aber Diamond Corp.
• Alberta Energy Company Limited
• AT&T Canada
• Banister Foundation Inc. (BFC)
• Bank of Nova Scotia
• Boise Cascade Corp.
• Celanese Canada
• Century Mining Corporation
• Clean Power Operating Trust
• DuPont Canada
• Hambros Canada Inc.
• IPC U.S. Income Real Estate, Investment Trust
• MacMillan Bloedel
• Manufacturers Life Insurance Corporation
• McDonnell Douglas Corporation
• Miron Inc.
• Ontario Energy Savings Corporation
• Rainy River Forest Products, Inc.
• Shell Canada
• Chairman, Siemens Canada Limited
• Slough Estates Canada Limited
• Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
• TransCanada Pipelines Limited
• Public Policy Advisor, UBS Securities Canada Inc.
• Vector Wind Energy Inc.

Community Involvement

Current

• Honorary Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
• Trustee, Clan Donald Lands Trust, Armadale, Scotland
• Co-Chair:  Trudeau Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, The Munk School, University of Toronto

Former

• Massey & Thomson Hall Corporation
• National Theatre School
• United Way of Metropolitan Toronto

Memberships

• The York Club, Toronto
• The Laurier Club

• The Multilateral Trade Negotiations - A Lawyer's Perspective
• 4 Canadian Business Law Journal 139 (1979-1980)

Canadian Industrial Policy Objectives and Article III of GATT:

• National Ambitions and International Obligations
• 6 Canadian Business Law Journal 385 (1982)

Foreign Trade Barriers to Canadian Exports and International Trade Law:

• GATT ch. 6 New Dimensions in International Trade Law, Butterworths, Toronto, 1982. 151

An Overview of the Prospects for Sectoral Integration:

2000 The Management and Resolution of Cross Border Disputes as Canada/U.S. Enter the 21st Century 26 Canada U.S. Law Journal 21

2000 Leap of Faith Free Trade Risks & Rewards, McGill Queens

1998 The Trudeau Cabinet: A Memoir Random House, Toronto, 161

1994 The Canadian Cultural Industries, Exemption Under Canada U.S. Trade Law, 20 Canada, U.S. Law Journal 253