O’Leary’s decision to attend final debate part of a broader political education
OTTAWA — Kevin O’Leary jumped into the Conservative leadership race late last year as the outsider candidate, brandishing a spatula to scrape “all that crap” out of Ottawa in a page that seemed torn from the playbook of U.S. President Donald Trump.
But as O’Leary appears to be learning, things change once you get inside.
After trying unsuccessfully to force the party to drop its free-for-all debate format — sitting out the last one earned him a $10,000 fine and a “chicken” label — O’Leary has decided to attend the next and final debate April 26 in Toronto.
“I will be at the last debate,” he said Thursday in a roundtable interview with The Canadian Press.