O’Leary is all about return on investment

And Kevin O'Leary discovered that political life is really a lot more difficult than most business people realize.

Kevin O'Leary, right, pictured with leadership candidates Deepak Obhrai and Michael Chong. Mr. O’Leary’s parting claim that he was unlikely to beat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not bode well for any Conservative leader.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

May 1, 2017

OTTAWA—Kevin O’Leary is not the first business person to stare politics in the face, and back away. And he most certainly won’t be the last. The annals of history are littered with the remains of high rollers lured from business or academia for a short-lived political flirtation. In some ca...

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