Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (born 1926)

Flora MacDonald (politician)

Canadian politician (1926–2015)

Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Canadian political party, the Progressive Conservatives. She became a close ally of Prime Minister Joe…

Minister of Communications (Canada)

The minister of communications of Canada was a cabinet post which existed from 1969 to 1996, when it was abolished. Its telecommunications policy functions were transferred to the Minister of Industry and its cultural role was assumed by the Minister of Canadian Heritage.