O’Leary isn’t Trump, but they’re both heat-drawing wild cards

Their policy views don't jive, but O’Leary is Trumpian in that he’s got the potential for previously unthinkable political success.

Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary, left, poses for a picture with fans at last week’s Manning Conference in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

March 1, 2017

MONTREAL—Is Kevin O’Leary the Canadian Donald Trump? It’s a question more complicated than the straight calculation of whether the political alchemy that propelled one belligerent reality show host to the pinnacle of power in America can hop the border. Because the previously unthinkable pres...

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