{"id":5048,"date":"2014-01-10T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2015-06-16T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:01:46","slug":"catching-up-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/catching-up-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4020.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright \u00a9 2014 Leroy Schulz http:\/\/www.leroyschulz.com\/2012\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5049\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4020.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-4020-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><htitle>Catching Up With Paul<\/htitle><br \/>\n<hfeat>Featuring The Right Honourable Paul Martin<\/hfeat><br \/>\n<hbod>Former Prime Minister of Canada, Lawyer, Businessman<br \/>\nJanuary 10, 2014<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/hbod><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:15px\"><\/div>\nMr. Martin was Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006 and Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2002.  Before entering politics, he was Chairman and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cslships.com\/en\">The CSL Group Inc.<\/a>, the largest self-unloading shipping company in the world.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving politics, Mr. Martin founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maei-ieam.ca\/\">Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative<\/a> focusing on education for Aboriginal students and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capefund.ca\/\">Capital for Aboriginal Prosperity and Entrepreneurship Fund<\/a>, an investment fund investing in Aboriginal business. <\/p>\n<p>He is also chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbf-fund.org\/\">Congo Basin Forest Fund<\/a>, a 200 million dollar British-Norwegian-Canadian poverty alleviation and sustainable development fund for the ten-nation Congo Basin Rainforest. He sits on the Advisory Council of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.uneca.org\/coda\/home_coda.aspx\">Coalition for Dialogue on Africa<\/a>, sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.int\/\">African Union<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uneca.org\/\">UN Economic Commission for Africa<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/\">African Development Bank<\/a>.  Mr. Martin is also a commissioner for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaloceancommission.org\/\">Global Ocean Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>Mr. Martin studied philosophy and history at the University of Toronto prior to earning a law degree.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>It took several years for this photo to happen, but not due to lack of trying from both sides.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring The Right Honourable Paul Martin<br \/>\nFormer Prime Minister of Canada, Lawyer, Businessman<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,40,319],"tags":[323,324,325,322,321,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}