Robert MacLaren Fowler
Robert MacLaren Fowler  (7 December 1906 – 13 July 1980) was a Canadian lawyer, best remember for chairing the Royal Commission on Broadcasting of 1955–57, whose conclusions, though not adopted at the time, eventually led to the creation of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Biography 
Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Fowler was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, before practising law in Toronto. He served on the staff of the Rowell–Sirois Commission. During the Second World War, Fowler was Secretary of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board from 1942 to 1945, when he resigned to become President of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, a post he would hold until 1976. A Liberal supporter, he was appointed to chair the Royal Commission on Broadcasting in 1955. In 1957, the Commission recommended the creation of a national regulator for all broadcasting, public and private. The recommendation was rejected by John Diefenbaker's government. He was among the first group of appointees to the Order of Canada in 1967, receiving the Medal of Service (later exchanged for that of an Officer of the Order of Canada). References 

 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-maclaren-fowler
 Avowed 'anti-nationalist' dies in Hawkesbury, The Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 1980, p. 36

1906 births
1980 deaths
Businesspeople from Ontario
People from Peterborough, Ontario
Lawyers in Ontario
20th-century Canadian lawyers
University of Toronto alumni
Osgoode Hall Law School alumni
Officers of the Order of Canada
20th-century Canadian businesspeople