His education continued in Ottawa at St. Patrick's College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma and where he was close classmates with Douglas Roche and John Turner who became federal politicians.
After the Ottawa Journal closed, Grace was appointed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a full-time commissioner.
[3] This Canadian federal agency is responsible for supervising the private and public management of personal information.
In 1990, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed Grace as the Information Commissioner of Canada,[3][5] but by 1992 Grace confronted the Mulroney government regarding its refusal to release the results of government-funded polls regarding national unity.
He was a part-time lecturer at the University of Ottawa where he was a member of its board of governors for four terms.