Ronald George Atkey, PC QC (February 15, 1942 – May 9, 2017) was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician.
[4] During his time as Minister, Atkey was instrumental in the decision to grant 50,000 Vietnamese boat people asylum in Canada in 1979, during the Southeast Asian refugee crisis.
He wrote on the exemption from North American Free Trade Agreement of Canadian cultural industries.
In 2004, he was appointed Amicus Curiae to the Arar Commission in order to act as an independent counsel with the responsibility of testing government requests made on the grounds of national security confidentiality.
[6] Atkey served as legal counsel to Warner Communications, and played a role in the company's merger with America Online.