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

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

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

Juno News - March 31, 2026