Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt PC (born May 7, 1968) is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019.

[9] As a result, she trained with barristers of the Middle Temple in London, United Kingdom, which specialized in international trade, commerce, transportation, and arbitration.

[8] Raitt served as the Toronto Port Authority's (TPA) corporate secretary and general counsel,[10][11] and was named harbourmaster in April 2001.

[15] The TPA and the city settled out of court in exchange for a promised bridge to the Island Airport across the Western Gap and approximately $50 million.

[16] As chief executive officer (CEO) of the TPA, Raitt was responsible for building the International Marine Passenger Terminal, a Toronto home for the now-defunct Canadian American Transportation Systems, a Rochester, New York-based group.

[20] During her time as CEO of the TPA, the Air Canada Jazz service to the Toronto City Centre Airport was discontinued under a legal cloud.

[11] Trinity—Spadina MP Olivia Chow called on federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser to conduct an audit of the port authority to investigate why Minister of Transport John Baird increased the membership of the board of directors from seven to nine—and why Raitt, while CEO, was allowed to run up almost $80,000 in travel and other expenses over two years.

The Conservatives stated he had breached caucus confidentiality; Turner disputed this claim and suggested he was suspended for his independent positions.

[30] At an October 6, 2009, meeting of the Oakville, Ontario, Chamber of Commerce, Raitt was on record discussing the possibilities of increased tourism and shipping opportunities in the North due to the melting polar ice cap.

[31][32] On June 2, 2009, Halifax's The Chronicle Herald reported that a folder of confidential and secret ministerial briefing documents had been left by Raitt or her staff at the CTV News Ottawa office for a week.

CTV News chose to reveal the contents which listed the funding for the Chalk River nuclear reactor which had recently shut down, causing a shortage of medical radioisotopes.

[34] On June 8, 2009, CBC News reported that a Nova Scotia court heard an argument to block the Halifax Chronicle-Herald from publishing a story about an audio recording involving Raitt.

"[38] The Ottawa Citizen and National Post reported Raitt's appearance at Toronto Pearson International Airport on March 22, 2012, and subsequent reaction by Air Canada baggage handlers was the reason a wildcat strike occurred the next day.

Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner described Raitt as "tough, quick, funny and hard-working — she can give as good as she gets."

Phil Benson of the Teamsters union said "she had an open door policy with us, was professional, courteous and good to deal with," and that he looked forward to working with her as Transportation Minister.

With her promotion to the transportation file she was considered to be one of the most senior women in Cabinet, along with Public Works Minister Diane Finley.

[44] On July 9, 2013, Transport Canada was in full damage control mode owing to the Lac-Mégantic derailment, with two directors, and an associate deputy minister attempting to explain the department's delayed reaction to a December 2011 auditor general report on rail safety.

She issued a directive sometime in fall 2013 requiring railways to inform municipalities about the kinds of dangerous goods they were carting through their communities, but a spokesman for Canadian National said on January 8, 2014, upon the occurrence of a hazardous derailment near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick,[46] that it was too soon for those regulations to have come into effect.

[51][52][53] New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair mocked Mulroney's appointment as an instance of the kind of corruption her father was suspected of.

[54] The Business News Network noted: "The Harper government hasn't explained yet what Mulroney Lapham's qualifications are to serve as a director of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority.

[58] On November 2, 2016, Raitt announced via Facebook that she was running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada,[59] though she eventually lost to Andrew Scheer.

[66] In a June 7, 2019 retweet of Ross McKitrick's Financial Post opinion piece defending Roger Pielke Jr.[67] Raitt said that the "Bottom line is there's no solid connection between climate change and the major indicators of extreme weather, despite Trudeau's claims to the contrary.

[70] Raitt was defeated in the 2019 federal election by Liberal candidate Adam van Koeverden, despite the conservatives gaining seats across the country.