Food for Thought: Lisa Raitt on her leadership run, life at home and being a ‘different kind of Conservative’

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Lisa Raitt has always been cautious by nature.

The Conservative MP for Milton spent years splitting her energy between two kids and a longtime partner at home, and her life on Parliament Hill as a minister in Stephen Harper’s government. It took organization and dedication, but Raitt herself acknowledges she wasn’t prone to big, adventurous leaps.

Then her now-husband, Bruce Wood, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease— and everything changed.

“I know that I can’t say ‘Oh, we’ll do that next year,’ because I don’t know where we’re going to be next year, I don’t know how he’s going to be feeling … so we do it all now. We just do it all.”

That means a family trip home to Cape Breton for Christmas, followed by a break “down south” in January for some sunshine and golf before the House of Commons resumes. Next summer, the family is heading to Italy. Whatever Bruce wants right now, Raitt said, he gets.

full story at https://globalnews.ca/news/3878973/lisa-raitt-on-alzheimers-leadership-being-a-different-conservative/

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