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March 13th, 2006, 12:32 PM
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http://ukar.org/schwartz/schwartz-02.html
Mr. Schwartz, president of Onex Corporation, and the top corporate fundraiser for Paul Martin's successful leadership campaign, will have helped raise an estimated and whopping $11-million by the Nov. 15 leadership convention. Mr. Schwartz's wife, Ms. Reisman, is head of Chapters Books.
"Except for Sheila Martin, Gerry and his wife are the people who have more influence on Martin than anybody," a top Liberal strategist told The Hill Times.
Mr. Schwartz's American Farm Inc. donated $75,000 and Onex Corp. donated another $75,000 to Mr. Martin's leadership campaign.
Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Reisman will also host a fundraiser dinner on Dec. 10 in Toronto. The dinner is expected to raise $2.4-million in one night and could pay off the Liberal Party's $1.5-million debt.
Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman photographed with israeli soldiers :
http://ukar.org/schwartz/schwartz.html
http://ukar.org/cotler/cotler-press-2005-11-01.html
According to a recent profile in Toronto Life, Concordia was a wake-up call for the so-called “power couple,” Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz. Reisman, niece of free-trade negotiator Simon Reisman, is CEO of Indigo/Chapters Books. Her husband, Gerry, Liberal Party chief fundraiser and former co-founder of CanWest Global Communications, is CEO of Onex Corporation. As fundraisers, both enjoyed “exceptional closeness to [Prime Minister Paul] Martin” and were eager to “flex their newfound political clout.” Trying to “decode their agenda,” Toronto Life noted that the first signs of their intentions had surfaced immediately after the Concordia controversy. “Shocked into action, Schwartz and Reisman summoned a group of fellow philanthropists, including Toronto tycoons Larry Tanenbaum and Brent Belzberg, to plot a counter-strategy.” Tanenbaum is co-owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and venture capitalist Belzberg owns Torquest Partners.
The four gathered together a select group of like-minded and monied colleagues and “self-appointed” themselves the “Israel Emergency Cabinet,” intent upon lending “more conviction and financial muscle” to advocacy for Israel in Canada. The Toronto Star observed that “the membership of the emergency cabinet reads like a who’s who of power and influence among the Jewish community” and that “some members are well known for their hawkish opinions favoring Israel in the long and bloody Middle East conflict.”
http://ukar.org/schwartz/schwartz-02.html
Mr. Schwartz, president of Onex Corporation, and the top corporate fundraiser for Paul Martin's successful leadership campaign, will have helped raise an estimated and whopping $11-million by the Nov. 15 leadership convention. Mr. Schwartz's wife, Ms. Reisman, is head of Chapters Books.
"Except for Sheila Martin, Gerry and his wife are the people who have more influence on Martin than anybody," a top Liberal strategist told The Hill Times.
Mr. Schwartz's American Farm Inc. donated $75,000 and Onex Corp. donated another $75,000 to Mr. Martin's leadership campaign.
Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Reisman will also host a fundraiser dinner on Dec. 10 in Toronto. The dinner is expected to raise $2.4-million in one night and could pay off the Liberal Party's $1.5-million debt.
Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman photographed with israeli soldiers :
http://ukar.org/schwartz/schwartz.html
http://ukar.org/cotler/cotler-press-2005-11-01.html
According to a recent profile in Toronto Life, Concordia was a wake-up call for the so-called “power couple,” Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz. Reisman, niece of free-trade negotiator Simon Reisman, is CEO of Indigo/Chapters Books. Her husband, Gerry, Liberal Party chief fundraiser and former co-founder of CanWest Global Communications, is CEO of Onex Corporation. As fundraisers, both enjoyed “exceptional closeness to [Prime Minister Paul] Martin” and were eager to “flex their newfound political clout.” Trying to “decode their agenda,” Toronto Life noted that the first signs of their intentions had surfaced immediately after the Concordia controversy. “Shocked into action, Schwartz and Reisman summoned a group of fellow philanthropists, including Toronto tycoons Larry Tanenbaum and Brent Belzberg, to plot a counter-strategy.” Tanenbaum is co-owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and venture capitalist Belzberg owns Torquest Partners.
The four gathered together a select group of like-minded and monied colleagues and “self-appointed” themselves the “Israel Emergency Cabinet,” intent upon lending “more conviction and financial muscle” to advocacy for Israel in Canada. The Toronto Star observed that “the membership of the emergency cabinet reads like a who’s who of power and influence among the Jewish community” and that “some members are well known for their hawkish opinions favoring Israel in the long and bloody Middle East conflict.”