Policy magazine was founded in 2013 by political columnists, erstwhile spouses and co-parents L. Ian MacDonald and Lisa Van Dusen as a pan-partisan platform for insight and analysis on Canadian politics and public policy. Since then, we've broadened our editorial scope to include more US and international policy and politics, and expanded our readership with Policy Online and The Week in Policy. Policy is both written and read by senior political and policy-making professionals, including veteran strategists, MPs and senators, diplomats, CEOs, academics, government relations specialists, career journalists and "formers" of all the above.

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L. Ian MacDonald

Policy Founding Editor and Publisher Emeritus L. Ian MacDonald was a longtime political columnist for The Montreal Gazette, speechwriter to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, minister of public affairs at the Canadian embassy in Washington and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre's Canada Institute. He is the author of seven books, including the No. 1 Canadian bestseller, Mulroney: The Making of the Prime Minister, and the critically acclaimed From Bourassa to Bourassa.

Lisa Van Dusen

Policy Editor and Publisher Lisa Van Dusen served as a senior writer for Maclean's magazine, Washington columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, Washington bureau chief for Sun Media, international writer for Peter Jennings at ABC News and as an editor on the Associated Press national desk in New York and at United Press International in Washington. She was also director of media relations for McGill University and director of communications for the McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building.

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