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Making a name for himself as one of the investors on CBC\u2019s Dragons\u2019 Den, Kevin O\u2019Leary is now running for the leadership of the Conservative Party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Graeme McNaughton\/Active Senior’s Digest<\/p>\n

Kevin O\u2019Leary isn\u2019t a politician \u2013 in fact he\u2019s sick of them. And he says others across the country feel exactly the same way.<\/p>\n

It is this notion, plus his background in the world of business, that the former Dragons\u2019 Den star wants to be the leader of the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n

The leadership contender was in Durham Region on Friday to drum up support for his campaign and tell people what he would bring to the table for Canada \u2013 and for him, that\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur economy is no longer growing \u2013 it\u2019s going into collapse. It\u2019s gone down since Trudeau arrived on the scene with 1.5 per cent, down to 1.1 per cent then 0.9 then 0.7. The way it manifests itself for people here and everywhere else in Canada is no jobs. No wage inflation,\u201d says O\u2019Leary during a media roundtable prior to his campaign events.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada does not work when the economy isn\u2019t growing at three per cent. You don\u2019t get healthcare, you don\u2019t get support for education, huge issues around military spending, and of course what makes Canada unique is its social net, its ability to take care of its people. Can\u2019t do that either. Trudeau is on a track to bankrupt the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary says the current system with career politicians isn\u2019t working, and that people are starting to recognize that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body politic around the world \u2013 in England, in Switzerland, in Colombia, what\u2019s going on in France right now \u2013 people are tired of politicians. They\u2019re tired of the lack of executional excellence,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoliticians, career politicians don\u2019t know the challenges of payroll. It works when you have a naturally growing economy, but all of a sudden you slow down and you can\u2019t afford healthcare\u2026people have realized they need executional excellence in government, and I think that\u2019s why they\u2019re opening their arms to people that have had a long experience of doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the politicians O\u2019Leary singled out for this was Ralph Goodale, currently serving as the federal public safety minister under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who Ralph Goodale is, I\u2019ve never met him, but I listened to him last Saturday or Sunday when Evan Solomon asked him a simple question, \u2018What are you going to do about the porous border and the hundreds of people streaming\u2026across the Manitoba border and Quebec?\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I listened to him for about eight minutes and realized maybe if you stay in Ottawa too long, you catch a disease as a politician because he spoke for eight minutes and said nothing. That\u2019s my definition of incompetence \u2013 I\u2019ll be firing him when I get to Ottawa too.\u201d
\nThe Conservative leadership contender did not mince words when it came to a frequent target of his barbs: Premier Kathleen Wynne.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason that Ontario is no longer competitive is brutal costs of energy, particularly electricity. This actually began in the McGuinty era and was accelerated by the weak leadership of Kathleen Wynne,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a federal leader, what do you do when you get a black swan event like a Kathleen Wynne? She\u2019s a toxic cocktail of mediocrity and incompetence. She needs an immense amount of adult supervision in these policies, and I\u2019ll be giving it to her from Ottawa.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary went on to say that, should he be elected prime minister, he would withhold money from Ontario and Alberta should they choose to keep what he sees as destructive policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, if she wants to maintain the carbon tax, I\u2019ll deduct it out of her transfer payments. I will not allow her to destroy the manufacturing base of Ontario because I can\u2019t fulfill my mandate of three-per-cent growth if Alberta and Ontario\u2026are managed by incompetent leaders. We need a much stronger federal leader that can help incompetent leaders like (Alberta premier Rachel) Notley and Wynne do the right things. I can encourage her to understand the plight of her people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they worked for any of my companies, I would\u2019ve fired them a long time ago. I can\u2019t fire them, but what I can do is make damn sure they don\u2019t get a second mandate of destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another program introduced by Wynne and Notley that O\u2019Leary disagrees with is their views on how to combat climate change \u2013 cap and trade programs.<\/p>\n

Under a cap and trade program, industries passing a certain threshold, such as the amount of greenhouse gases emitted, must pay penalties if go over government-set targets. Companies are also allowed to purchase credits from other companies that would be below those targets.<\/p>\n

In Ontario, the program applies to electricity importers, any facility or natural gas producer that emits 25,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gases per year and fuel suppliers that sell more than 200 litres of fuel per year.<\/p>\n

The aim of the program is that, with increasingly stricter limits, companies would be forced to operate greener and more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n

Citing his degree in environmental studies from the University of Waterloo, O\u2019Leary says he would be the one to better balance the needs of environmental stewardship in the face of climate change along with a strong economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say you two plants. One is a five-smokestack plant, the other is a small start-up with one smokestack. The first company is rich, it has a huge balance sheet and easy access to capital,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you have a cap and trade program, they simply use their balance sheet to go buy credits and continue to pollute \u2013 how stupid is that?\u00a0 The small company can\u2019t afford to do that \u2013 what they do is innovate, use carbon sequestration technology perhaps, whatever they have to do to reduce their emissions because they know they can\u2019t afford to buy credits.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary says the solution is not for the government to get overly involved, but allow businesses to set their own targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter to just go to the entire industry and say, \u2018Look, just like we did a few years ago in the automotive industry, what can you do in terms of getting more productivity out of a gallon of gasoline and reduce emissions over the next decade?\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSet targets for us, and the government will monitor what you\u2019re doing. You can keep your money, you can keep your employees, keep your innovation, and innovate those changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Leary says that he agrees something needs to be done about climate change, but that the cap and trade program being implemented both provincially and nationally will only hurt the economy and do nothing to help the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Canadians want to meet the Paris Accord, but we\u2019ve got to leave the capital in the hands of those that can actually deliver it,\u201d he says, citing the 2016 international agreement with 194 signatories making a commitment to limit annual temperature growths, which is caused by climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cCap and trade does nothing to improve air quality and it\u2019s evident by what\u2019s happening in Ontario right now because the air hasn\u2019t changed at all and we\u2019re bankrupting the economy there by extracting money from businesses and then completely wasting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for why O\u2019Leary is entering the race, the answer is simple: get rid of Trudeau and the Liberals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2019, it will not be an election. It will be an exorcism. I am going to excise him out of Ottawa and then reverse all the damaging economic policies he\u2019s put in place because he doesn\u2019t understand what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a mid-March poll among Conservative Party members by Mainstreet Research and iPolitics, O\u2019Leary is currently leading the field with 23.65 per cent, ahead of Beauce, Quebec MP Maxime Bernier\u2019s 19.3 per cent and former house speaker Andrew Scheer\u2019s 10.33 per cent.<\/p>\n

However, according to a projection by the CBC, which also takes into account endorsements, fundraising and various polls, Bernier is seen as most likely to become the party leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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