Donald Stovel Macdonald

The Honourable Donald Macdonald PC CC
Macdonald with President Gerald Ford in 1975.
Minister of Finance
In office 26 September 1975 – 16 September 1977
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Charles Drury (acting)
Succeeded by	Jean Chrétien
Ministers of Energy, Mines, and Resources
In office 28 January 1972 – 25 September 1975
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Joe Greene
Succeeded by	Alastair Gillespie
Minister of National Defence
In office 24 September 1970 – 27 January 1972
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Léo Cadieux
Succeeded by	Charles Drury (acting)
President of the Privy Council
In office 6 July 1968 – 23 September 1970
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by	Allan MacEachen
Succeeded by	Allan MacEachen
Member of Parliament for Rosedale
In office 18 June 1962 – 28 February 1978
Preceded by	David James Walker
Succeeded by	David Crombie
Personal details
Born	Donald Stovel Macdonald (1932-03-01)1 March 1932 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	14 October 2018(2018-10-14) (aged 86) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Ruth Hutchison ​ ​ (m. 1961; died 1987)​ Adrian Merchant Lang ​ ​ (m. 1988)​
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Toronto Harvard University University of Cambridge
Profession	Lawyer

Donald Stovel Macdonald PC CC (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 (the Macdonald Commission) which recommended that Canada enter a free trade agreement with the United States.