Rookie Cabinet minister Raitt stumbles, gets up

Cabinet staffers say it's understood they will take the fall for their bosses.

Last Tuesday evening, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt strode into the Métropolitain Brasserie, a popular Conservative hangout steps from Parliament Hill, with her assistant, Nicolas Pappalardo, and her omnipresent director of communications, Jasmine MacDonnell. The trio, there for a ...

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