- 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 ofSimon Reisman who headed the Canadian delegation that negotiated the 1988Canada-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 theOnex 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 joiningRobert Lantos in withdrawing their longtime support for theLiberal Party of Canada and supporting theConservative Party of Canada underStephen 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; andGerald 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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