L. (Lawrence) Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a Canadian writer, columnist, broadcaster, public speaker, and diplomat.
His mother was Marian MacDonald, and his father, Arthur, was an engineer who died of a heart attack in 1958 when Ian was 10 years old.
[2] MacDonald graduated from Concordia University (Loyola) (L BA '69; honors political science).
[1][2] He was inducted in the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 as equipment manager of the Loyola College Warriors 1968 hockey team.
[3][7][8][2] From 1992 to 1994 he worked as head of communications (Minister of Public Affairs) at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., in the United States.