Celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary says he's amassed a team of advisers on whether he should run for leadership of the federal Conservatives and now wants advice from Canadians.
The reality TV-show host and entrepreneur formally unveiled his circle of Conservative confidants today and also launched a website seeking input from the public on whether he should officially join the race.
Among those on his leadership committee are former Ontario premier Mike Harris, former Conservative Sen. Marjory LeBreton and two former Conservative MPs.
The head of his exploratory committee is Mike Coates, who once helped prepare former prime minister Stephen Harper for election debates and also works as a vice-chairman of a public relations firm.
The committee will make the rounds over the next few weeks and report back to O'Leary with findings early in 2017.
There are 14 officially registered candidates in the Conservative leadership race and the deadline for new entrants to sign up is Feb. 24. The results of the contest will be released in May.
O'Leary first began musing about running for the leadership nearly a year ago, and has been making the rounds — publicly and privately — of Conservative gatherings for months trying to gauge support.
Earlier this month, he met with some Conservative members of Parliament in Ottawa.
"I will work with the party to disrupt a system that doesn't work," he said on social media after the gathering.
While O'Leary hasn't officially registered to run, remarks attributed to him last week saw other Conservative candidates quickly move to disparage him.
Conservative MPs Michael Chong and Erin O’Toole both condemned a report that O'Leary told an Ottawa radio station that Canadians are known as peacekeepers, not warriors, and "there is nothing proud about being a warrior."
O'Leary later wrote on social media that Canadians are great at both roles.
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Run Kevin, RUN! Please!
Run Kevin, RUN! Please! Running for the Conservatives is like opening a box of turds. You never know what you're going to get until you get a good solid whiff! You're so effin' obnoxious you will help bury the Conservative brand for at least another four years, polarize the political debate and help open the door for a rejuvenated NDP to rise to oust Justin "The Fraud" Trudeau from office. So I repeat, Run Kevin, RUN!
That is exactly what
That is exactly what Democrats in the US were saying about Trump. Right up until the votes were counted. Turns out that the amount of b.s. people will believe is unlimited and the cesspool of utterly sleazy fakes fighting for the chance to get in on the con is bottomless. The legacy of scandals from both parties is so long and nasty (and we only know the tip of the iceberg) they should have been disbanded but voters either have no memory or are brainwashed to believe THIS TIME IT WILL BE DIFFERENT. Repeating the same actions while expecting a different outcome = insanity.
The mega machine of MSM, TV, Internet and corporate PR campaigns have ensured what befalls the US, soon engulfs Canada as well. Massive gun lobby, climate change denial, anti-science, Republican PM (Harper), drill, baby drill mentality, increasing mysogeny, it's all here.
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