NOT SO CANADA NICE!

‘Traitor’ Kevin O’Leary Ripped by Fellow Canadians for Pushing U.S.-Canada Deal

“Kevin O’Leary is despised in Canada,” one of the “Shark Tank” star’s countrymen wrote.

Kevin O’Leary’s countrymen are fed up with his supposed dealmaking to merge the U.S. and Canada.

Canadians have come out en masse to clown the Montreal native—who has since ditched the great white north for sunny Miami Beach—over his efforts to combine his homeland with his adopted nation, as Donald Trump has recently proposed doing.

The outrage came after Trump posted to Truth Social that “many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” with some determining the president-elect must have reached such a conclusion after meeting with the former Shark Tank star this week.

“No Canadian besides that sack of s--t Kevin O’Leary from Shark Tank supports this,” wrote one user on X, including a screenshot to Trump’s post.

Another chimed in: “I can actually HEAR Kevin O’Leary behind this. That motherf---ing traitor.”

A third Canadian posted a gif that was meant to virtually flick O’Leary off. “Message for Kevin O’Leary. Nobody elected you to speak for us,” the post added.

O’Leary, 70, said late last month that a trip to Canada over the holidays revealed more than half of the nation of 40 million were supposedly “interested” in a North American merger of sorts.

“Canadians over the holidays—the last two days—have been talking about this,” O’Leary told Fox Business in December. “They want to hear more.”

O’Leary said he was headed to Mar-a-Lago to talk discuss a potential deal with Trump, who has repeatedly trolled Canada—and its now-former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—about this prospect.

Trudeau, who announced his resignation Monday, took to social media Tuesday to make clear that Canada is—and will remain—fully autonomous.

“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” he wrote Tuesday.

O’Leary has suggested that Canada may benefit from striking an agreement with the U.S. that was akin to the European Union. This would include a common currency and defense partnership, he said as recently as Monday on Fox News.

A clip of him repeating this wish was shared on X and, like elsewhere, O’Leary’s comments were scrutinized by his countrymen.

“Kevin O’Leary is despised in Canada,” read one reply with over 1,000 likes. “He is an absolute clown.”

There is some data to back up claims that O’Leary is not the best barometer for what the average Canadian thinks.

The entrepreneur, who’s worth $400 million and claims to be in talks to purchase TikTok’s U.S. assets with other businessman, was soundly rejected by voters when he ran for the leadership of the Canadian Conservative Party in 2017 and won just one percent of the vote.

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