Lisa Raitt on the pain and glory of losing the job she held for over a decade
Out in the Open | Posted: December 13, 2019 2:38 PM | Last Updated: December 13, 2019
'I'm always going to be around. I'm just not going to be a politician there'
After the votes were counted in this year's federal election, former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt lost her seat to four-time Olympic medallist — and newly-minted Liberal — Adam van Koeverden.
That made Raitt one of the most prominent Conservatives to lose.
Out in the Open host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with her about the pain and glory of being out of the job she held for 11 years, and what her party needs to do to unite itself going forward.
This story appears in the Out in the Open episode "See Ya, 2019".