Olivia Chow: Bruce Westwood

Bruce Westwood: One weekday afternoon a month ago she placed a phone call to Toronto literary agent Bruce Westwood, telling him she was about to catch a flight to the Ontario capital from Ottawa and could she meet with him? Two hours later, the New Democrat MP and widow of former NDP leader Jack Layton was in Westwoods office. A couple of hours of conversation later, they had a deal the deal being that Westwood would find a publisher for the memoir that Chow, 56, had been busily writing in her spare time. A few days after that HarperCollins made what proved to be a successful bid for the as-yet unfinished manuscript, with HarperCollins vice-president, publisher and editor-in-chief Iris Tupholme announcing the acquisition Wednesday afternoon. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. In the bedrooms of the nation #039;s leaders Events seem to move fast in Olivia Chows world. In her own words: Sook-Yin Lee on playing Olivia Chow against type in the Jack Layton biopic (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.