The Parkdale-High Park Provincial Riding Association held a fundraiser at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP with a special guest, the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada.  The event was co-chaired by Alfred Apps and Elaine Flis.

Paul Martin, PC, former Prime Minister of Canada, spoke at UWO.

He told Omar Ha-Redeye,

You’ll make a great lawyer.

He also said,

You carry yourself quite well.

Strangely, these compliments came after asking him some tough questions on the Afghan mission. Or perhaps not so strangely, given the nature of the questions.

Jean-Michel Picher (LLB/MBA ’06) spoke at UWO Law on “Working for Change on the Obama Campaign: An inside view on the election that made history.”

Picher worked on Barack Obama’s recent presidential campaign in the U.S. As an American citizen, he has a long history of political campaigning, including John Kerry’s Presidential campaign, working for former prime minister Paul Martin, and Ken Dryden’s Liberal Leadership in February 2007.

Before joining the Obama team, Picher completed his articles at Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto in June 2008.