Raitt’s loss sparks questions about future of women in the Conservative Party, says political expert

As deputy leader, Lisa Raitt, who represented the progressive or Red Tory wing of the party, was a counterweight of sorts to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's social-conservative views, says Melanee Thomas of the University of Calgary.

Lisa Raitt, pictured on Jan. 25 with Conservative MP Alain Rayes, in a scrum following a Justice Committee meeting, attributes the party’s success in increasing its slate of female candidates to its push to have more women in leadership posts.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 20, 2019

Lisa Raitt’s defeat on Oct. 21 raises larger questions about where women fit within the Conservative Party, says one political expert, but Conservative MPs say the groundwork that was laid in the last election, where the party fielded a record 106 female candidates, ...

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