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Kevin O'Leary: He's not a billionaire, he just plays one on TV - The Globe and Mail
Salty rich guy offers bribe to remove Notley
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Interesting read on your hero.
Kevin O'Leary: He's not a billionaire, he just plays one on TV - The Globe and Mail
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Next we will have a quiz.
Q - Who manipulates Oil prices via production controls?
Oh I couldn't possibly go away mad. You're way to funny when you writhe and flail around after being made a fool of.
Of course I wouldn't, I like to surround myself with open and honest people.
Great read, thanks for that. Sounds like he would fit right in, in Ottawa, lol.
Everybody.
I told you so DB. His disadvantaged and marginalized life has made him bitter.
True enough but too simplistic. There a cartel (OPEC) that has controlled said production to their benefit and that cartel consists of 80% of the Worlds Oil.
When that Cartel restrains production to increase their profits, leftovers like Canada ride on that wave. Now that Sauidi Arabia, the key controller of OPEC has decided to abandon their production restraints Canada has to ride on that wave again unless someone can figure out a way to increase Canada's Oil price to a profitable level.....
Kevin O'Leary: 'I am not Donald Trump'
OTTAWA — Both of them are business titans, authors, and TV personalities — one actively running to lead the U.S. political right, and the other thinking about doing the same in Canada.
But if Kevin O'Leary does indeed decide to go into federal politics, it won't be because he's trying to be Donald Trump, the brash Canadian businessman said Thursday.
"I understand what he is doing with the media, and you can certainly claim I am trying to do the same, but I am not Donald Trump," O'Leary said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"I'm a Lebanese-Irish, I don't build walls (and) I am very proud of the society we're building in Canada, I think it is the envy of the planet."
O'Leary, a Canadian entrepreneur who became known outside business circles thanks to his stint on CBC's "Dragons' Den" and its American equivalent "Shark Tank," said he's got nothing in common with Trump on social, foreign or domestic policy.
He said he thinks Trump's surprise success in vaulting to the front of the Republican leadership race is a reflection of a populist movement underway in the U.S.
It could happen in Canada, he added, but it's not what he's trying to do.
"It's an interesting observation; I can see why people would say it, but that's not what motivates me."
Rather, O'Leary is contemplating politics for two reasons: Canadian graduate students are telling him they think they need to leave Canada to make their fortunes, and he has strong objections to the job done so far by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.
Earlier this week, he offered to invest $1 million in Canadian energy companies if Notley would step aside as premier. Notley fired back, saying a Toronto businessman had no business telling Albertans how to vote.
"She said, 'Bring it on,'" O'Leary said. "I'm bringing it on."
No matter what people may think of it, the energy industry drives the Canadian economy and if it is suffering, it's the company CEO — in this case the premier — who is to blame, he said.
"You should not be allowed to manage (the Alberta economy) or be the premier of that province unless you have made payroll for two years in a company with sales of over $5 million," he said.
"...I say the same for the prime ministership, I say the same for any leader of any province. If you haven't made payroll, you have no right to sit in that seat."
That, he acknowledged, would disqualify many past prime ministers, including former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper — someone about whom O'Leary seems to have mixed feelings.
"I think Stephen Harper was doing a good job in terms of policy for the private sector and he enjoyed a long period of success there; however, you also have to be compassionate," he said.
"Canadians are that way — they just are — and they are very inclusive, and the minute you go off the rails on a topic like that, it costs you immensely, and I think he found what the price of that was.
"I don't think politicians should dabble in social mores, in religion — their job should be to stabilize and grow an economy."
That point of view reflects the beliefs of many Conservatives when it comes to the role of government, as does O'Leary's philosophy that higher corporate taxes and a carbon tax would hurt Canada far more than help.
Asked whether he thought Canada should continue bombing Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, however, O'Leary suggested a different route.
"We are the best peacekeepers in the world," he said. "I would like Canada to be very involved in peace initiatives, not war."
O'Leary, who calls himself politically agnostic, said he's eyeing a run for the Tories because of timing — it's the only party actively seeking a new leader.
Political leadership is the only way to create the change Canada's economy is demanding, he added.
"I am looking at this saying, like everybody else, 'This is interesting, 18 months from now the country is going to have make a decision about who should be the opposition, I think I could be very effective there,'" he said.
"The question is, 18 months is an eternity in politics, so this is very early days."
Meanwhile, Alberta MP Rona Ambrose is serving as interim Conservative leader. The party has yet to set formal rules or a date for the leadership vote, though it's not expected to take place before next year.
source: Kevin O'Leary: 'I am not Donald Trump'
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I'd vote for him, because he's a business man.. I think a country should be run in a similar manner, to bring in jobs and grow an economy.. Then Maybe the Budget will Balance itself.
Calling the man a Canadian Trump.. guess the Liberals will stoop to any low to shut up a critic. I don't recall O'Leary suggesting we toss out Muslims.
He can't be much bigger of a joke than Trudeau.. but the fact that people are labeling him as a Canadian Trump, when the man has not stated one derogatory statement towards immigrants or Muslims, or Women.
It's the Liberals way of painting somebody a Racist or Nazi if they don't agree with them, or are afraid of them gaining any political ground.
Trump is a chauvinist, racist idiot.. comparing somebody to him, well you might as well just compare them to Hitler.
I haven't seen him behave like he might be a racist..
That said, he is a bit obnoxious, loud mouthed and over confident. I'd like to see him run Alberta..
Ummm, not really. I can see how some of his substance free crap could be polarizing. But not really on par with what I think O'Leary would be like. Trudeau is quixotic, and flaky. Which is why the bobble headed fluffers love him.
I was referring to the polarizing, East and West in many ways..
"Either you love him or you hate him, but I never heard of a soul who understood him."
Ok, agreed. JT's anti Alberta shtick is old and stupid. I truly hope it comes back to bite him in the a$$.