Conservative leadership contender Kevin O’Leary donated $458.62 to the Durham federal Liberal riding association in 2004, according to Elections Canada data.

Though his campaign claims he made a donation to the Conservative Party of Canada in 2016, that isn’t reflected in Elections Canada data for the first three quarters of 2016. The fourth quarter numbers haven’t been released yet.

O’Leary’s campaign acknowledged a request for comment Thursday, but only provided one late Friday afternoon.

“Kevin likes supporting smart people and is willing to work with people who have Canada’s best interests at heart,” Ari Laskin, O’Leary’s press secretary, wrote in an email.

Laskin added, that O’Leary “also donated to the Conservative Party of Canada in 2016”. He didn’t say how much the donation was for.

The Liberal donation, which was received on April 3, 2004, came a few months ahead of the June 28, 2004 federal election and was linked to a Rosedale postal code in Toronto that matches a corporate registration record for O’Shares Investments Inc., his investment firm.

The Liberal candidate in Durham in 2004 was Timothy Lang, the brother of television journalist Amanda Lang, with whom O’Leary would later co-host The Lang & O’Leary Exchange on CBC from 2009 to 2014. Lang ended up narrowly losing the riding to Bev Oda.

There are number of other donations to the Durham riding association from April 2004 for $458.62 — among them one from former Liberal MP Bob Kaplan — suggesting there may have been a fundraising event around that time.

Though O’Leary hasn’t been particularly generous with his Canadian political contributions, an Ottawa Citizen analysis by Glen McGregor in January 2016 counted up $42,000 in donations he’d given to Democrat candidates in the U.S. between 1998 and 2007.

That included $6,000 to Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.

The donations were all from addresses in Boston, where O’Leary has lived as the chairman of O’Shares Investments.

Many of his opponents in the leadership race have questioned O’Leary’s Conservative bona fides over comments he’s made about the Canadian military and CBC.

Lisa Raitt went as far as to launch a website called www.stopkevinoleary.com.

“If principled and pragmatic Conservatives don’t join together, we will see our party hijacked by the loudest voice in the room,” Raitt said earlier this month.

O’Leary finally announced he was running for the Conservative leadership on Wednesday after well over a year of speculation.

As iPolitics reported Thursday, however, his campaign is currently scrambling to gather the 300 party member signatures required to make him an official candidate.