Lisa Raitt
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The Honourable Lisa Raitt PC MP |
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Raitt in 2013
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| Official Opposition Critic for Finance | |
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In office November 20, 2015 – October 15, 2016 |
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| Leader | Rona Ambrose |
| Preceded by | Nathan Cullen |
| Succeeded by | Gerard Deltell |
| Minister of Transport | |
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In office July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Denis Lebel |
| Succeeded by | Marc Garneau |
| Minister of Labour | |
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In office January 19, 2010 – July 15, 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Rona Ambrose |
| Succeeded by | Kellie Leitch |
| Minister of Natural Resources | |
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In office 2008–2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Gary Lunn |
| Succeeded by | Christian Paradis |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Milton Halton (2008-2015) |
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Assumed office October 14, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Garth Turner |
| Personal details | |
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Lisa Sarah MacCormack May 7, 1968 Sydney, Nova Scotia |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | David Raitt (divorced) Bruce Wood |
| Children | 2 |
| Profession | Lawyer, administrator |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt, PC MP (born May 7, 1968) is a Canadian politician, who is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of Milton. She is a professional administrator (1999–2008) turned politician (2008–present). Raitt served in several portfolios as a minister in the 28th Canadian Ministry of Stephen Harper.
Raitt was born Lisa Sarah MacCormack in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and raised as the youngest of seven children. It was not until her early teens that she learned that the couple she thought were her parents were actually her grandparents, and that her mother, who as a young unmarried woman had almost given up her daughter to adoption, she believed was her sister. Her grandfather, Colin A. MacCormack, worked for a local coal mine, loading coal onto ships, and later served as city alderman, and secretary-treasurer and a lead negotiator for the Cape Breton Railway Transportation and General Workers. Her grandmother, Mary Christina "Tootsie" (Gillis), was a businesswoman. Raitt was married to Second City alumnus, playwright, and stay-at-home dad David Raitt and has two sons, John Colin (b. 2001) and Billy (b. 2004); they are now divorced. On September 2, 2016 she married her longtime partner, Bruce Wood, the President and CEO of the Hamilton Port Authority.
Raitt graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia with a bachelor of science degree. She went on to do a master's degree in chemistry, specializing in environmental biochemical toxicology, at the University of Guelph. Raitt possesses an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School, and was called to the Ontario bar in 1998. That year, she was granted a Dr. Harold G. Fox Scholarship. As a result, she trained with barristers of the Middle Temple in London, United Kingdom, which specialized in international trade, commerce, transportation and arbitration.
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