If elected leader, ‘just visiting’ O’Leary would lead Conservatives to their greatest defeat since 1993

The Conservatives’ 'Just Visiting' campaign was arguably the most effective political ad campaign in modern Canadian history. I can’t think of another that has worked nearly as well.

Kevin O’Leary, pictured, is the Conservative Michael Ignatieff. If mass delusional psychosis continues to beset paid-up Conservative members, and if they actually select Kevin O’Leary to lead them, the attack ads practically write themselves, writes Warren Kinsella. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

March 6, 2017

TORONTO—Spring 2009: the tulips were blooming, the birds were chirping, and Ottawa was buzzing about the prospects of prime minister Michael Ignatieff. The polls looked good. The pundits were saying nice things. Stephen Harper’s regime was slipping. Liberals were accordingly feeling optimistic...

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