Raitt risks blood in her quest to sink the big fish

By setting herself against O’Leary, she risks inflating his would-be candidacy. But she’s also conscious that if she doesn’t take some risks she has zero chance of winning.

If Lisa Raitt, pictured, can keep driving the narrative that Kevin O’Leary is a threat and she is best placed to deal with him then she might have a path to victory, writes Tim Powers. But it is a big 'if.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

January 11, 2017

OTTAWA—Lisa Raitt has gone shark fishing! As someone who grew up in the era of the epic Jaws films, she knows it can be a pretty bloody endeavour to catch the big fish, but well worth the glory if you do. Last week, Raitt, who to date has had generally a quite uneventful Conservative lea...

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