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Janice MacKinnon, Chair
Janice MacKinnon is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a former Saskatchewan Finance Minister. She also sits on various private and public-private boards, holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) fellowship, and is a frequent contributor to public policy debates at the national level. She has authored three books: one on political culture, published by Harvard University Press, a second on women refugees. Her latest book, Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs and Canada's Future, is about the fiscal crisis and includes a discussion of health care and other critical issues facing Canada. "The Arithmetic of Health Care," published by IRPP in 2004 discusses the trade-offs involved in the current level of funding for health care and proposes changes to the current financing of the system. From 1991 to 2001, Ms. MacKinnon was a cabinet minister in the Saskatchewan Government. She served as Finance Minister during the deficit/debt crisis, when Saskatchewan became the first government in Canada to balance its budget in the l990s. The other portfolios that she held included: Minister of Social Services, Minister of Economic and Co-operative Development, Minister Responsible for Trade, Research and Investment and Government House Leader. Ms. MacKinnon lives in Saskatoon with her husband Peter, President of the University of Saskatchewan, and they have two children, Alan and William.
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