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RSS FeedsJust like that, the anybody-but-O´Leary movement comes to an end: Hébert
(The Star Food)

 
 

27 april 2017 00:19:41

 
Just like that, the anybody-but-O´Leary movement comes to an end: Hébert
(The Star Food)
 


Businessman Kevin O’Leary says he is pulling out of the campaign to succeed Stephen Harper because he is not convinced he could carry enough votes in Quebec to beat Justin Trudeau in the 2019 election.Fair enough. But chances are he would never have had the opportunity to test that proposition in a general election. Or to verify his attending presumption that voters elsewhere in Canada would rally to his flag. Lack of traction in Quebec stood to stop his nascent political career in its tracks as early as next month’s Conservative vote.Polls done for his own organization as the membership drive was coming to an end last month showed that a Quebec wall stood between O’Leary and the finish line. That wall looked insurmountable.The reality-television star may have been the first choice of a plurality of Conservatives but he had little room to grow beyond that group. In Quebec — the province that counts for the second-highest number of leadership votes — he could not earn the support of more than about one in 10 members.That this should have come as a surprise to some of the seasoned backroom advisers who backed O’Leary’s candidacy is testimony to their powers of collective delusion. There has not been a successful federal leader who could not speak French fluently since Pierre Trudeau won the Liberal leadership in 1968.But even if he had been fluently bilingual, O’Leary would still have been a leadership disaster waiting to happen. Up to a point, his shortcomings in French may have been the least of his liabilities — and a saving grave for the Conservative party.For never has a leading candidate for the leadership of one of Canada’s major parties brought so little policy depth to the task of applying for the job of would-be prime minister.From the moment he entered the campaign, O’Leary consistently exhibited little understanding of the workings of government, the Constitution or for that m ...


 
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