Jason MacDonald, the Ontario Progessive Conservative Party candidate for Ottawa South, is perhaps best-known by Carleton students as being the director of communications at Carleton University.
MacDonald studied arts at Bishop’s University in Quebec, according to a Carleton press release. After graduating, he received his master’s of arts from Wilfrid Laurier University, according to the release.
The PC party has announced various plans for students studying in Ontario universities. Among these is a plan to scrap the Trillium Scholarship for international PhD students and redistribute the money into the Ontario Student Assitance Program (OSAP). The plan was announced by Tim Hudak’s Conservatives last week.
MacDonald announced Feb. 24 that he was running against Ontario Liberal Party leader and premier Dalton McGuinty in the Ottawa South riding in the upcoming provincial election.
MacDonald told the Charlatan in March that he was focused on making Hudak premier.
“The McGuinty government is out-of-gas and out-of-touch with the priorities of Ottawa families. An Ontario PC government will focus on the services that matter most to them, like frontline healthcare and safe neighbourhoods,” MacDonald said in a statement on the PC party website.
Although McGuinty has held the riding since 1990, MacDonald told the Charlatan in March, he’s “in this to win.”
And if he were to win, MacDonald said he’d leave his post as director of communications with Carleton.
MacDonald has also worked as a journalist at Rogers Communication, according to his website. He then went on to become director of public relations at CBC/Radio-Canada.
MacDonald became Carleton’s director of communications in April of 2009.
