It’s funny seeing the various negative posts/stories in the news about him. Like I’m still scratching my head wondering whether this editorial I saw claiming to be from a liberal, going on about why it was a bad move to go with Avi, because policies like “sanction Israel for conducting an ongoing genocide” won’t play to the masses.
Like, do the libs really think Canadians are as blindly pro-Israel as America, just because Israel gives a ton of money to American politicians, and is friends with Donald Trump? They think siding with a genocidal regime that’s bombing school children, threatening to blow up things like water desalination plants, enabling ‘legal’ death sentences for just a persecuted minority, and so on… is going to get them votes? They don’t think having a leader with a sense of morality will win over a chunk of Canadians? I… I mean maybe they’re right, but I sure as hell hope not.
Honestly, we need a new option, other than the obviously corrupt and captured PP/conservative northern trump party, and “the other guys”. Especially when, so far, most of what the other guys have done seems to be to enrich their friends, cut services, enact bills and policies that go along with the American authoritarian agenda, and deliver very little to regular every day Canadians. As an undecided voter who’s voted the whole range of the political spectrum (excluding the most extreme sides, like the people’s party hah), I’m glad to see him in the race and look forward to what they might bring to the next election.
Best of luck to the NDP and Avi.
There’s a concerted campaign against him from the far right. Pick any video on YouTube about Avi Lewis and look at the comments. They’re consistently pushing the same points, and ramped up the attacks the day he got elected. They misrepresent his views consistently in the same ways, no matter what he says. I highly doubt it’s an organic response by an average selection of Canadians. It smells like a far right onslaught designed to sow doubt about someone they feel the need to shut down, and in a way that’s a promising sign.
The NDP needs to be as radical as possible and draw attention to the fact that both parties on the top are fucking us over equally.
Yes but also we need proportional representation so that the NDP isn’t there just to re-calibrate what left/right means
The problem I see is there a lot of hair brained ideas like government run grocery stores. Margins on grocery stores are tiny, so prices will be unable to fall significantly. The thing I was hoping the NDP would tackle is zoning, which is where corporation like Loblaws do have high margins, due to the scarcity of land due to regressive and sprawled zoning laws; alongside a lack of mixed use residential.
The NDP also supported mass immigration to depress wages for Canadians and create a double digit youth unemployment, there was no rebuke of that policy that Loblaws and Tim Hortons lobbied for. This is how Pierre was attaining the youth and the union vote, people obviously dont want massive money printing that inflates the price of goods, followed by mass immigration to reverse the created wage pressure as per the phillips curve.
Maybe the indigenous should determine our immigration policies, or at least have a say in them;
otherwise, I’m pretty much open borders.
Ya I mean you wont have a social safety net then, as is shown by our failing healthcare and infrastructure after we did mass immigration; you’re essentially enacting a far right libertarian policy at that point.
Ironically he also wants to kill one of our largest exports by stopping pipelines, so fewer jobs that are being debased by a large influx of labor, failing services from a lack of tax revenue and productivity, and I think you can see how this far left fantasy ends in ruin.
I’d also say the BoC is ringing the alarm bells on investment into Canada, it seems people dont trust this place to put their money, and that makes us poorer. The idea that “tax the rich” is a panacea is silly.
Our healthcare system was already going to shit during Harper.
Well I go by wait times generally. They were reasonable during Harper.
Maybe because the current crisis didn’t happen overnight? We are witnessing the culmination of decades of neoliberal underfunding and enshittification and of smothering the healthcare worker education pipeline, including putting unreasonable barriers to the recognition of foreign trained healthcare professionals?
Mass low skilled immigration really didn’t affect wait times you think?
Or insane things like this:
I think that more Crown Corps would be best. People often are reminiscent of the good old days, while ignoring that those days had way more government involvement and public companies, wages were higher (compared to goods) when there were more and stronger unions.
The same people who want the those old times back are the same people who fight social services, public sector jobs, etc.
“Why won’t the government do more for me, also I want less taxes and those in public sector positions to make as little as possible”
I would love to see a return of a public oil company like when we had pertolcanada or our nuclear industry to make a comeback.
Margins on grocery stores are tiny, so prices will be unable to fall significantly.
Loblaws made $2.7B profit in 2025.
Sure and how much of that was things like their REIT, or the higher margin non-food items? Loblaws is a franchise so like McDonalds, it makes money from owning and leasing land if I’m not mistaken.
In the end you’re taking a risky gamble when its pretty obvious food prices are elevated due to all the Covid stimulus we printed, and it wont come down unless the money supply falls. We are still buying half of all mortgage bonds to artificially inflate asset values, while people complain about “greedy grocery stores” as if they are fully to blame.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/markets/canada-mortgage-bonds-government-purchases-and-holdings/
Food prices are also going to increase along with fertilizer prices, due to the war
Describing his campaign is ‘a populist win’ is rather curious considering it’s NDP members that do the voting. Wouldn’t every party then be a populist movement?
I hadn’t listened to Lewis much before he won leadership. I had basically heard him in the NDP leadership debate and in his social media posts, but having listened to his post-victory speech and couple of appearances since on CBC, I’m impressed by how good a communicator he is. That bodes well for the party imo. The NDP really need someone who can be out in front loud and clear bearing a standard for values and policies that are differentiated from the other parties. Lewis definitely seems like he could be that guy.
Like Jack Layton, he’s a white heterosexual Anglo male with a good pedigree; and like Layton, I think he will win the NDP lots of seats.
We aren’t all that different from the Yanks.
(Here’s to you, wp:Jagmeet Singh: at least the Liberals remain a minority.)
He ran for parliament twice, got 25% of the vote in 2021, and 12% in 2025.
So? He ran in riding that have never voted NDP. He will run eventually and win a seat. No rush though. Jack Layton didn’t have a seat for a year.
