Juno News - March 31, 2026


New NDP Leader Avi Lewis called for nationalization and state ownership of many industries in Canada

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Avi Lewis
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1 minute

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148.79

Word count

228

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8

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Avi Lewis has a plan to take over Canada's economy with public ownership of every major market, from housing to internet to food to transit, this is what the future of Canada would look like under a New Democratic Party government.

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00:00:00.000 going to play what I thought was the most remarkable clip and clearly the thing that
00:00:05.000 gave the most energy to this NDP convention where Avi Lewis is excitingly telling the crowd that he
00:00:10.460 wants basically a state takeover of the entire economy to Trump proof our economy with public
00:00:15.440 ownership of every major market from housing to internet to food to transit. This is what
00:00:22.020 the future would look like under an NDP government. Let's roll that clip. This is thought three.
00:00:25.420 Our NDP has a different offer for this country.
00:00:29.500 Our plan is to trump-proof the economy by investing massively in Canadian economic independence,
00:00:36.180 using the unmatched power of public ownership to ensure the fundamentals of a good life.
00:00:45.320 A network of public providers for food, phones, and internet.
00:00:50.960 a public housing developer and public construction companies to build millions of non-market homes
00:01:01.040 a 21st century electrical grid an ev bus revolution and a heat pump in every home
00:01:09.340 built with canadian steel creating tens of thousands of unionized jobs
00:01:15.220 so that is the future of canada under an ndp government communism folks and uh we'll just
00:01:22.520 build a wall against the americans we won't have to deal with them at all i don't know how we'll 0.68
00:01:25.980 fund all of this we're only going to trade with north korea and cuba only like-minded countries
00:01:31.640 apparently