‘Canada’s Trump’, Kevin O'Leary, pulls out of Conservative leadership race

Canada Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary, the businessman turned TV star who is sometimes likened to Donald Trump, has announced that he is pulling out of the race.

CBC said in a Tweet that the millionaire businessman will make his announcement during an

O’Leary, the star of TV’s Shark Tank, had pledged to be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “worst nightmare”, when he threw his hat into the ring in January, and likened Trudeau negotiating with Trump as “Bambi versus Godzilla.”

But his plans haven’t panned out. In a Wednesday afternoon statement, O’Leary said beating Trudeau in the 2019 election would be a “huge challenge.”

“This was not an easy decision for me to make but after much thought and deliberation, it is the right one for the Conservative Party and the country,” O’Leary said.

O’Leary said he made his decision after concluding that he would be unable to expand the Conservative party base of support in the province of Quebec, because he does not speak French.

“I’m a numbers guy,” O’Leary said. “And the likelihood of gaining a lot of seats in Quebec is low.”