Raitt needs O’Leary to split Blue Tory vote

Lisa Raitt is banking on social media technology and new recruitment techniques, to swell Red Tory, anti-O’Leary ranks within the party with online recruitment. In so doing, she is well-positioned to become everyone’s second choice.

Lisa Raitt’s campaign to stop Kevin O’Leary was brilliant, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

January 9, 2017

OTTAWA—Lisa Raitt’s campaign to stop Kevin O’Leary was brilliant. It vaulted her to the front of the news cycle during a January political lull. It also set her up as a foil to the Trump-like tendencies of some of the Blue Tories who are already in the race or thinking of joining. It would b...

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