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