What Kevin O’Leary doesn’t know about Alberta could fill a b

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What Kevin O’Leary doesn’t know about Alberta could fill a book he’d never read

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By Michael Harris | Jan 14, 2016 8:59 pm |

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"Let’s not forget the real authors of this mess. O’Leary would have you believe that Alberta now has catastrophic political leadership. What he actually means is the free lunch for Big Business is over."

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It wasn’t quite up to Anthony Weiner’s standards, but Kevin O’Leary did kind of expose himself on TV this week.

In offering to give Alberta’s premier a million dollar investment in the oilpatch in return for her resignation, O’Leary declared both what he and his class stand for — and, more importantly, what they think of democracy.

What they stand for is the greedy, reflexive urge to run everything to the financial advantage of the one per cent. As for society at large — and especially for those who wonder why there’s so much month left at the end of their money — a Great White shark has more social conscience than O’Leary and his ilk.

As Premier Rachel Notley found out, democracy only works for people like O’Leary when it joins hands with plutocrats for a whirl around the Golden Calf. Kevin O’Leary has simply morphed into a human piggy bank. He imagines that, because he is full of coin, he is also full of wisdom. He’s certainly full of something.

Now there’s talk of a run at the Conservative leadership. In a way, O’Leary is the perfect candidate to replace Stephen Harper. They’re both Tin Men without hearts lurching down the Yellow Brick Road towards an oily Oz that has disappeared. The ‘socialists’, you see, have gotten over the wall.

Like some illegitimate spawn of Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump, this baby blowhard is giving the middle finger to the people of Alberta. O’Leary apparently has forgotten that bloviating is for billionaires. Millionaires only get to bitch, no matter what puffery the Report on Business Magazine produces about them. Market price for a newly elected majority premier, according to the O’Leary Exchange? A measly million-dollar investment. O’Leary’s accidental self-revelation: priceless.

When dealing with crass capitalists with a yen for the limelight, it is a never-ending job separating the pepper from the fly shit. In the case of Kevin O’Leary, he doesn’t seem to realize that if his rant on Power and Politics skewered anyone, it was his own class and political party. Permit me to remind him of some inconvenient facts:

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