The Conservative Party of Canada is not the U.S. Republican Party and Kevin O'Leary is not Donald Trump... say it three times, now relax. 

The federal Tories will eventually elect someone who has some ties with their party, not an interloper like O'Leary who is trying to leverage his celebrity name recognition and casting about for a sugar daddy who will pay for his fantasy.

Clearly Lisa Raitt is trying, as Gary Mason points out, to "carve out a piece of this leadership race for herself." It's all about fund raising at this point in the game.

Kevin O'Leary is a TV persona and has no track record as a politician. I can't imagine him in Parliament on the Opposition benches working with a caucus of MPs who see him as an interloper, and he doesn't speak one of Canada's official languages. Plus, O'Leary is from Toronto, sorry Globe and Mail, which most of the rest of the country sees as a negative. 

But, hey, it's more fun gossiping... umm, I mean talking.. about O'Leary.