Patrick "Pat" MacAdam (15 September 1934 – 19 May 2015) was a Canadian writer and longtime Conservative Party insider born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
[1] MacAdam attended St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia from 1952 until 1956.
He served as the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Xaverian Weekly in 1955, the same year he met longtime friend Brian Mulroney when Mulroney was a freshman and MacAdam was a senior.
After Mulroney's term ended in 1993, MacAdam was accused of tax evasion, and eventually convicted in 1997.
[2] In addition to a weekly column in the Ottawa Sun, MacAdam wrote several books: