Lisa
Raitt
The Honourable Lisa Raitt is currently the vice-chair of global investment banking at CIBC Capital Markets. Previously, Raitt was the president and CEO of the Toronto Port Authority. She was elected to the House of Commons in 2008, where she served as Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Transport. Raitt was the deputy leader of the Official Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada from 2017 to 2019. She was called to the Ontario bar in 1998 and in 2020 was named a Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow of the Canada Institute. Raitt lives in Moffat, Ontario.
Juror History
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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