Heather Reisman

Heather Reisman

, a leading supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks. [http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Indigo-Books-Music-Inc-Management/inc_mgmt-artRS.html Profile at indigo.ca] ] Reisman is married to Canadian billionaire Gerry Schwartz. Together they have four children: Anthony Yanow, Andrea Johnson, Jill Pickard, and Carey Abromovich.

Early life

Reisman was born in Montreal, Quebec, the niece of Simon Reisman who headed the Canadian delegation that negotiated the 1988 Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.

She was educated at McGill University.

Career

In 1996, she founded Indigo which, in 2001, merged with its main rival, Chapters, to form the largest book retailer in Canada. Along with her husband, Reisman is a director of the Onex Corporation.

She drew praise and criticism in October 2001, after announcing that she was banning Hitler's "Mein Kampf" from sale in her bookstores. [Adams, James. Globe and Mail. "Reisman bans Mein Kampf from Chapters and Indigo"]

The controversial anti-Bilderberg Group website www.bilderberg.org reported that she attended the 2005 Bilderberg Conference, May 5-8, 2005. [cite news|url=http://www.bilderberg.org/2005.htm#final Bilderberg 2005|publisher=Tony Gosling's Anti-Bilderberg Website|title=Bilderberg Conference|date=2005]

In August 2006, as a result of differing reactions by the two main Canadian political parties to the 2006 Lebanon War, Reisman announced that she and husband Gerry Schwartz would be joining Robert Lantos in withdrawing their longtime support for the Liberal Party of Canada and supporting the Conservative Party of Canada under Stephen Harper. [cite news|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060804.wxliberals04/BNStory/National/home&ord=371591196729276519|title=Liberal power couple back Harper on Mideast|last=Clark|first=Campbell|publisher=The Globe and Mail|date=4 August 2006|accessdate=2007-12-03]

Reisman was also a delegate at the 2007 Bilderberg Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May - 3 June 2007. She was in the company of other notable Canadians: Jason Kenney, Member of Parliament; and Gerald Butts, Principal Secretary in the Office of the Premier of Ontario. [cite web|url=http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/cgi/page.cgi?aid=920&_id=128&zine=show Bilderberg 2007|publisher=Canadian Action Party Website|title=Towards a One World Empire|date=2007]

Heather Reisman is an avid reader and as "chief book lover" she reads all the books she picks as a "Heather's Pick".fact|date=May 2008Ms. Reisman also donates 1.5 million dollars each year to schools in Canada to increase literacy. Something she is very passionate about.

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