Portrait
File No. 504053 · Adjudicated
Heather Reisman
Entrepreneur — Canadian businesswoman
Born
1948
Birthplace
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Quebec
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Co-founded Kobo, the e-reader company that became Canada's answer to Amazon's Kindle.
The verdict
Founded Canada's largest bookstore chain and turned it into a cultural institution where Canadians browse for hours without buying anything. McGill-educated and Montreal-born, she's been shaping how Canadians read and gather for decades, eh.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Quebec · Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁
References — en.wikipedia.org