NEIL: A BIG WALL STREET BUSINESS GUY BEING WOOD TO RUN FOR THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND. UTES JAMIE DIMON AND LATEST TO GET SOME WALL STREET TONGUES WAGGING AND MAKING A FINAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND MICHAEL BLOOM BURG IN THE SAME POSITION AND DIDN'T GO WELL FOR HIM. THERE WAS A BRIEF PERIOD RECOMMENDING ACOCA RUNNING FOR THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND AND RUSS PER ROW DID IT AND IN 1992 GOT 19% OF THE VOTE, NOT A SINGLE ELECTOR RALE VOTE BUT REMINDED SOAKS SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A GOOD -- FOLKS IF YOU HAVE A GOOD MESSAGE AND YOU'RE CLEAR YOU CAN TAKE IT ALL THE WAY AND DONALD TRUMP ENTERS IN 2016. KEVIN O'LEERY, I'VE BEEN A BIG FAN AND FOLLOWED HIM WITH INTRUSION AND KEVIN WAS VERY, VERY -- INTRIGUE AND KEVIN WAS VERY, VERY CLOSE TO MAYBE BEING A PRIME MINISTER IN CANADA. CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER, IF THEY WON, HE'D BE BY EXTENSION THE LEADER OF THE PARTY AND COUNTRY. GUESS IT WAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH QUEBEC AND THINGS NOT LOOKING PROMISING THERE AND BOTTOM LINE, MR. WONDERFUL DECIDED TO DO OTHER THINGS. THAT WAS SIX YEARS OR SO AGO. CAN KEVIN, VERY GOOD TO HAVE YOU. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. NEIL: YOU'RE WELL KNOWN IN CANADA AND YOU STEPPED DOWN AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE PUSHING YOU TO RUN AND TAKE OVER THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP. YOU KNOW, THIS A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM, BUT YOU LOOKED AT QUEBEC, EXPLAIN WHERE THAT WAS IMPORTANT AND WHY THAT MAYBE CHANGED YOUR TRAJECTORY. >> YOU'VE GOT TO THINK OF QUEBEC AS THE FLORIDA OF CANADA. IT DETERMINES THE CEO IN THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM AS THE PRIME MINISTER. DEPENDING ON THE EBB AND FLOW OF OTHER PROVINCES, YOU REALLY NEED TO WIN AT LEAST 23 SEATS IN QUEBEC IF YOU'RE GOING TO RUN A THAT JORDY SEIZURE DISORDERS MANDATE. MAJORITY MANDATE. MY WHOLE PREMISE IN 2016 WAS GIVE ME THIS JOB FOR FOUR YEARS AND LET ME APPLY WHAT I BELIEVE ARE GOOD PENSIONAL SKILLS AND I'LL TURN THIS COUNTRY -- EXECSAL SKILLS AND I TURN THIS -- EXECUTIONAL SKILLS AND I'LL TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND. CANADA IS THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH RUN BY IDIOTS AND I HATE TO SAY THAT AS A CANADIAN, BECAUSE I HAVE A PASSPORT BUT, I'M ALSO IRISH AND AMARATI BUT I'M REALLY UNHAPPY AT HOW CANADA IS RUN. VERY WEAK SKILL SETS IN MANAGEMENT THERE AND THAT'S THE PREMISE BY WHICH YOU WANT SOMEONE FROM BUSINESS TO RUN A COUNTRY. NEIL: YOU'VE BEEN VERY PUBLIC AT YOUR DISDAIN FOR THE PRIME MINISTER NOW, PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU THAT HE'S DOING A HORRIBLE JOB AND MAKING THINGS WORSE. YOU STILL SUBSCRIBE TO THAT; RIGHT? >> HE'S ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL POLITICIANS IN HISTORY. HE'S BEEN THAT THAT SEAT FOREVER. HE HAS ZERO EXECUTIONAL SKILLS AND HE'S A HORRIBLE MANAGER. HE PERHAPS IS THE WORST MANAGER CANADA'S EVER BEEN UNDER. THE ABSOLUTE WORST. IT CAN'T GET WORSE. ABSOLUTELY A NEGATIVE 10. NEIL: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT TRUDEAU. YOU JUST ANSWERED THAT. LET ME ASK YOU THOUGH, YOU WERE BEING DOUBTED AND YOU'RE HIGHLY REGARDED IN CANADA AND IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL, VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN. IT'S A GREAT STORY. BUT I'VE OFTEN TOLD PEOPLE IN STUDYING A LOT OF BUSINESS TYPE GETTING WOOED TO RUN FOR HIGH OFFICE ALBEIT IN CANADA OR THE UNITED STATES THAT IT'S NOT AS EASY AND MAKING IN THE POLITICAL WORLD IS JUST NOT AS EASY AS WELL. THAT'S WHAT MADE DONALD TRUMP'S VICTORY BACK IN 2016 SO REMARKABLE. IT WAS SO UNUSUAL. NOW THE FACT THAT THEY'RE TOUTING JAMIE DIMON TO RUN. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? >> YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU WANT TO FIND AND THIS IS VERY INTERESTING GIVEN THE RACE HOW IT'S SHAPING UP STATE SIDE, FIND SOMEONE WITH LEGISLATIVE SKILLS THAT ARE PROVEN AND IN OTHER WORDS EXECUTED AT A GOVERNMENT LEVEL AND ALSO HAS GREAT EXECUTIONAL SKILLS IN BUSINESS. THERE IS SOMEBODY, DOUG BURGUM IN NORTH DAKOTA. I CAME UP WITH HIM IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY AND HE CREATED A MASSIVE SOFTWARE BUSINESS THAT MICROSOFT BOUGHT, BUT HE'S ALSO BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AS GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA. I KNOW THAT BECAUSE I INVEST IN NORTH DAKOTA. I'VE MET HIM AND I'VE TALKED TO HIM. HE'S THE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SKILL SET ON BOTH SIDES OF THE EQUATION. HE'S NOT WELL KNOWN YET AND PEOPLE START SAYING, WAIT A SECOND, THIS GUY IS A LEGISLATOR AND HAS EXECUTIONAL SKILLS IT IN BUSINESS AND MAYBE WILL WORK WELL IN GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF TAKING SOMEONE OUT OF BUSINESS AND SAYING GO FIGURE OUT HOW LEGISLATION WORKS BECAUSE THAT'S ALSO A TRICKY GAME. IN BURGUM YOU'VE GOT BOTH. MAYBE HE'LL BE AN INTERESTING CANDIDATE. NEIL: I REMEMBER WHEN AKOCA WAS RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND POPULAR AND I REMEMBER TALKING TO HIM SOMETIME A IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. A LOT OF WALL STREET BUSINESS TYPES DISCOVER WHAT MIGHT WORK FOR THEM IN BUSINESS DOESN'T NECESSARILY TRANSLATE TO POLITICS? >> I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT. I THINK BUSINESS IS POLITICS EVERY DAY. YOU'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, NEGOTIATE DEALS -- NEIL: WHY DO THEY NOT MAKE HEADWAY WITH DONALD TRUMP? >> TRUMP HAD GREAT SKILLS. GROWTH ORATOR AND COMMUNICATOR AND SKILLS IN BUSINESS AND NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. FOR ME AS AN INVESTOR, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE ALL INVESTORS IN AMERICA AND TAKE OUR MONEY AND PUT INTO SAVINGS AND WONT OUR ECONOMY TO -- WANT OUR ECONOMY TO WORK. WHAT MATTERS MORE THAN THE WHO'S THE PRESIDENT AND WHAT'S THE POLICY. AT THE END OF THE DAY, I INVEST IN POLICY SOS I'M LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP THAT'S GOING TO GIVE ME A PACKAGE OF POLICY AND UNDER THE TRUMP LEADERSHIP, HE WAS VERY CONTROVERSIAL. THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. LOOK AT THE POLICY FOR SMALL BUSINESS WHERE I OPERATE, WHICH IS 68% OF THE ECONOMY. THAT POLICY LESS REGULATION, MORE PRO BUSINESS, LOWER TAXES, THAT'S THE KIND OF STUFF THAT MAKES AN ECONOMY GROW AND YOU'RE SEEING THAT BENEFIT RIGHT NOW. I'M NOT SO SURE THAT IT WON'T BE POLICY THAT DETERMINES THE NEXT PRESIDENT REGARDLESS OF THE PARTY. I WANT TO SEE POLICY PACKAGES LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DEBATES AND BRING ON THE BURGUMS OF THE WORLD AND HEAR WHAT THEY'VE GOT. NEIL: THE TRACK RECORD IS A LITTLE SKETCHY BUT WHAT'S REMARKABLE IS THE SUCCESS OF MOST WELL KNOWN RICH PRESIDENTS, JOHN F. KENNEDY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. THEY WERE AMONG THE RICHEST WE'VE HAD AND OF COURSE DEMOCRATS AND THEY APPEAL TO THE COMMON MAN, WHICH SEEMS IRONIC AND CLEARLY WORKED. DEMOCRATS HAVE HAD MORE SUCCESS WITH RICH GUYS AND THOSE REPRESENTING OUR WEALTHIEST FAMILIES MAKING IT TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? >> YOU DESCRIBED THE AMERICAN DREAM. WHY DID I MOVE MY BUSINESS OUT OF HIGHLY TAXED ONTARIO TO CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS? BECAUSE IT'S AMERICA. IT'S WHERE YOU GO IF YOU'RE AN ENTREPRENEUR. WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT TO MOVE HERE FROM AROUND THE WORLD? BECAUSE THAT DREAM CAN COME TRUE. I CAME FROM NOTHING. I WAS A MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY. AMERICA GAVE ME THAT OPPORTUNITY TO GROW A BUSINESS AND TURN IT INTO MULTIBILLION DOLLARS IN TRANSACTIONS. THAT'S THE AMERICAN DREAM. WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT THAT -- WOULDN'T YOU WANT THAT EMULATED BY YOUR PRESIDENT. YES, I WANT A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR AS PRESIDENT, MAN OR WOMAN. WE ULTIMATELY WANT TO DO THAT AND THAT'S BEEN THE AMERICAN DREAM SINCE I WAS BORN AND IT'LL BE THE SAME IN 100 YEARS AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY GREAT AND WHY I DO MY BUSINESS HERE. SURE IT'S GOT PROBLEMS, BUT YOU WANT THE LEADER TO ACTUALLY BE THE ESSENCE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM TO EMBED THAT IN THE CULTURE AND KEEP A STRAIGHT AND NARROW. THAT'S WHY IT'S THE GREATEST ECONOMY ON EARTH. >> NEIL: MY GOOD, KEVIN, HOW BAD WERE THINGS IN CANADA TO GO TO CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS? >> I'M NOT IN TAXACHUSETTS ANYMORE. I MOVE TO NORTH DAKOTA AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT 3,000 LICENSE PLATES A MONTH MOVE TO FLORIDA OUT OF NEW YORK. EVERYBODY IS LEAVING MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE THEY CAN AFTER THE PANDEMIC. CALIFORNIA IS NOT EVEN DOING BUSINESS. GO TO PLACES LIKE OKLAHOMA, WEST VIRGINIA, NORTH DAKOTA, THAT'S WHERE THE ACTION IS BECAUSE THEY'RE PRO BUSINESS. KEVI
Not a fan of Kevin, but he is right on this one!!!! 110% Every failure of this government can be traced back to the trudeau and his selection of the most incompetent, inexperienced cabinet in Canada's history...... favouring gender and ethnicity to qualifications and experience. Wokeism at its height..... well we got what some wanted. Epic failure, fiscal insecurity, divided nation and international embarrassment!
In my books this social experiment has been an abject failure...... going out on a limb here.... any one disagree?????
He's not wrong.
He’s 100% correct.
Today I learned that Trump was a great orator…
They are not "idiots" they are diabolically brilliant. Look what they have done to us with absolute impunity for almost a decade.
Oleary is a goblin scumbag.
I've thought Canada was run by idiots since I was 7 and that was 16 years ago. Not much has changed in those 16 years unfortunately
This is the guy who shuts down canadian companies and offshores everything.
Says the man bilked by a soon-to-be incarcerated crypto bro
I guess it takes one to know one.
Hey let's all listen to the guy whose company was such a rotten asset that it almost killed Mattel when they bought it from him lol