About
William (Bill) Atwood Macdonald was born and raised in Montreal. He graduated from McGill University, then left for Toronto at age 20 to study law at Osgoode Hall. In 1993, Bill left McMillan Binch (now McMillan) to establish W.A. Macdonald Associates Inc. Its focus is on government relations, economic policy, and the Canadian and global economic/political/policy environment. He has been involved for over fifty-five years in a very broad range of policy issues for governments and business, as well as specific major projects involving both provincial and the federal governments. Bill served as chairman of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Commission, which produced The Report of the Commission to Study the Public’s Expectations of Audits (the Macdonald Commission Report, 1988). On the recommendation of John Deutsch—former chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, and then-principal of Queen’s University—he was named a special taxation adviser in 1971-73 to the Bermuda government. It later credited his report for putting them into the black when almost all other countries were still heavily in the red.
Education
William (Bill) Atwood Macdonald was born and raised in Montreal. He graduated from McGill University, then left for Toronto at age 20 to study law at Osgoode Hall.
Canada – A Different Kind of Great Country for a Different Kind of WorldNotes for talkat Symposium for “The Canadian Difference: Dialogues in Diversity”Trent UniversityDecember 9, 2017
at Symposium for “The Canadian Difference: Dialogues in Diversity”Trent UniversityDecember 9, 2017
at Symposium on "Gathering on Common Ground: Building Harmony through Diversity in Canada and India"Queen’s University, Kingston OntarioJune 25, 2017
A lecture delivered at the Owen Graduate School of ManagementVanderbilt University, Nashville, TennesseeNovember 30, 1994