Commentary
Peter MacKinnon is a lawyer, former law professor, a former Dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, and a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation among other accomplishments. He served as president of the University of Saskatchewan, and interim president at both Athabasca University and Dalhousie, resigning this last position in January 2020.
In a January 2019 interview with Dal News, he reflected on his pursuits as an author: “I don’t want to write a memoir, and I didn’t want to write local history. I wanted to write about policy” following his term as president at the University of Saskatchewan….