Manning Centre Conference and O Leary Financial Group

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley: The chairman of O’Leary Financial Group, best known to most Canadians as a former investor panellist on the CBC reality-television show Dragons’ Den, made his pitch Friday to the crowd at the Manning Centre Conference, an annual gathering of the conservative movement in a speech full of his typical bombast, according to The Toronto Star. The cap-and-trade plan announced by the Ontario government this week will end up being a $1.9-billion slush fund that will do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he charged, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is an incompetent and made him weep as he listened to her pitch to New York investors, and he told federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau he was going to rip the March 22 budget — and its to-be-determined deficit — to pieces. I want anybody that wants to waste money in this country to pay for it dearly, O’Leary told reporters of his as-yet-undetermined role in the race to replace Stephen Harper as Conservative party leader. Tell us what you really think! someone shouted from the back of the room. Should O’Leary officially decide to throw his hat into the ring, the celebrity businessman will likely face tough challenges organizing in the party. He also called for a national referendum on pipeline projects, saying that if 51 per cent of Canadians who voted said yes then it would be built, a proposal that received no applause and did not address the constitutionally required duty to consult with aboriginal peoples. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.