🇨🇦 Avi Lewis at 6 Percent: The NDP Has Chosen Ideology Over Survival

The NDP sits at 6 percent in national polling, lacks official party status in Parliament, carries mountains of debt, and just elected Avi Lewis — lead architect of the Leap Manifesto, the document that called fossil fuels a moral abomination and nearly tore his own party apart — as its new leader. A Postmedia-Leger poll found that only 32 percent of Canadians even consider the NDP relevant. Lewis's response to existential collapse is to demand nationalised grocery stores, a wealth tax, and a heat pump subsidy program. He has openly called Canada a «climate pariah» and said the NDP of the 1970s was more to his liking. Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck refuses to meet him until he reverses his fossil fuel positions. Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi attacked him within minutes of his victory. The federal NDP, having spent three years propping up Justin Trudeau in exchange for dental care legislation, is now being led by a man who thinks the problem was insufficient radicalism. Whatever is left of the sovereignist working class that once voted NDP should note: this party is not coming back for them.

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