Olivia Chows: Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Attitudes are changing but not fast enough. Perhaps her book will help, according to The Star. She questions why she picked such men, saying maybe she believed the line, love him enough and he will change. Or maybe, it was because she watched her father beat up her mother in Hong Kong and Toronto, and thought subconsciously her mother deserved it and Olivia Chows My Journey is a gutsy book. The NDP MP and transportation critic is a public figure and while writing about ones weaknesses has become popular, theres less sympathy for some issues than others such as violence against women. She immigrated to Toronto with her parents from Hong Kong in 1970 at 13 and by 17 she had a boyfriend who came close to killing her. She stayed a year, making up excuses for him and never going to the police. She writes: I was drawn to the wrong kind of guy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.