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Is it Kellie Leitch’s “moxie” as she quintuples down on unworkable plans to screen every single visitor to the country for Canadian values? You hear that Canadians? Leitch either thinks you’re as stupid as she pretends to be, or as mendacious. Now come join our party!

Or is it perhaps Kevin O’Leary’s middle finger to the military, constitution and history of the country he’s gracious enough to visit a few times a year? If you’re a Conservative who thinks Kevin O’Leary is interested in conservative policies, then you’re a fool and there is no bigger indictment of Conservative politics on offer. The man lists five career concerns in his Twitter biography. Guess which one comes last (after “photographer”)?

But, but, but … O’Leary’s big with the millennials! He’s got star power! He can beat Trudeau!

O’Leary, some polls purport to show, rates decently with millennials. But that polling was done by an “exploratory committee” set up by O’Leary to drum up interest in his already rumoured candidacy. It was a marketing exercise to set a narrative, nothing more, and its “conclusions” can be written off as self-serving twaddle.

It got one thing right: Millennials are important. And right now they go for Trudeau in a big way. But they’re also the ones who will be saddled with Trudeau’s crushing debt. They’re the ones who won’t be hired now because Trudeau has jacked up payroll taxes. That’s a problem for Conservatives to fix, but O’Leary isn’t the one for such an Olympic task of suasion.