Canadian Press reports Sunday that former Liberal politician and cabinet minister Donald Stovel Macdonald has died at the age of 86. CP says his daughter Sonja confirmed that Mr. Macdonald passed away in his sleep at his Toronto home. Macdonald was a member of the Pierre Trudeau government. He was elected in 1972 and sat for the riding of Rosedale. He was known to the press as Donald S. Macdonald to avoid confuson with others. In the early 1980s, Mr. Macdonald was appointed the chairman of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada where he endorsed free trade with the U.S. Macdonald had four children and seven step-children.
