First, the NDP elect a Trotskyite as their new leader. Then, Canada considers removing references to God from its national anthem. Finally, the Alberta independence campaign says it has enough signatures to force a referendum on independence from Canada.
00:07:02.400i'm sure yeah missing some nuts and bolts i'm talking them anyway yeah oh god i'm having
00:07:09.600evisions from silence of the lambs um okay uh so we're just many of you have already seen it we're
00:07:16.640just going to play a quick little montage of some of the the best of moments from canada's
00:07:22.000democratic socialist parties convention the point of privilege on microphone one then we'll go to
00:07:26.640microphone three go ahead delegate yes hello i i was standing here with my gender equity card
00:07:32.560before you called on the previous speaker this card was used in an inappropriate matter i see
00:07:39.200that we are one minute ahead of schedule and so i'm going to get out of here these are my rights
00:07:47.200being directly under attack right now in alberta and that a cisgender woman had spoken uh over me
00:07:55.040I will invite delegates to assist me in better using the card by forming a straight
00:08:02.400straight line behind the microphone um with a prominently displayed equity card again we
00:08:08.000thank delegates not to call me madam chair or madame la presidence i'm a non-binary person
00:08:12.480my pronouns are they them and their chair is sufficient
00:08:14.960and with regret you've spoken to the resolution it's not open to you to also call the question
00:08:25.600okay um uh the state rests its case uh they're certifiable uh i mean this stuff is
00:08:36.800i don't know dave you start i have i don't know i don't even know what to say
00:08:42.620Well, I think it goes down as the, you know, Nigel's been around a lot longer than I have, but certainly the most bizarre political convention in Canadian history, some of the most bizarre attendees, you know, you've seen it by the little clips that John just played, gender cards and cis cards and cards coming here, cards coming there.0.61
00:09:04.740and it was it was it was a little ridicule uh and unfortunately it is it's brought shame on
00:09:11.220the country out of canada uh it's being mocked around the world sky news uh had a segment in
00:09:17.300australia where they're saying canada is not a real country greg gutfeld on fox uh last night
00:09:24.180was saying they got to build a wall more than canada to keep out the wackos you know he gave1.00
00:09:28.820that about 20 minutes which is a lot so they gave a lot of material yeah they gave them two hours
00:09:34.020worth of material to work with so yeah i've certainly never seen anything like it uh i feel
00:09:39.140sorry for the the average real ndp person who goes to these pays their money and then goes to the
00:09:46.100convention and is probably sitting in row 12 just wondering what the hell have i got myself into
00:09:52.100And it's, you know, by electing Abby Lewis, they've moved.
00:09:58.840So they are now left of Elizabeth May.
00:11:20.760So to Dave's point, Corey, you know, what are the regular members thinking sitting there?
00:11:28.320I'm not sure how many are there because, you know, at the core, and I'm speaking in very broad strokes here, but, you know, at the core of the left in general is a sense of a lack of self-esteem, of victimhood, and of moral superiority to compensate for your lack of success.
00:14:58.620And it's going to come from people to whom all of what we are talking about meant nothing.
00:15:05.020They were born NDP, they will die NDP, they will vote NDP.
00:15:09.840And it's going to be interesting to see what that, you know, when one and a half million people come back to the NDP at the next election, which I think they will.
00:15:20.000What difference does that make to the outcome?
00:15:22.340You don't think there could be a 1.25 million leave?
00:15:25.880I mean, if you look at the auto workers.
00:15:29.480The auto worker whose dad was a member of the union in Windsor, and you're a member of the union, and you've always been an NDPer, and you're looking at this.0.56
00:15:39.840Well, it's an interesting point, because when the Reform Party got started, there was a lot of people who walked over from the NDP to join the people who they would never have thought they would ever have any agreement with, and the Reform Party was born.
00:15:51.320Well, this is a broader trend across the whole Western world right now where traditional Labour versus Labour versus Bourgeois party politics of Europe have faded down.
00:16:04.740It was never as strong in the United States and Canada as it was in Europe, but it's breaking down even in Europe where social democratic parties have lost basic blue collar unionized support.
00:16:16.000It's now much more cultural. People vote along the lines of how do you feel about mass migration?
00:16:21.320much more than they feel about, you know, what do you
00:16:50.300His grandfather was the leader, I believe, of something called the Waffle, which was a radical Marxist and Trotskyite faction within the federal NDP.
00:17:00.860It was eventually kind of purged as it was trying to not be seen as too tied to the Soviet Union.
00:18:14.840for rightists so i'm cautious of committing the same sin in reverse what do i think the left
00:18:21.220should do i think there is a market for the crazy left um but he is without a doubt the most radical
00:18:28.280leftist to ever lead the ndp i don't think he would deny that characterization i i think he's
00:18:35.500quite i'm not sure if it's openly or not but he's he's a trotskyite essentially which
00:18:39.320And Trotsky's big thing was that Stalin was too right-wing.
00:18:44.760That's kind of, that was kind of what we say, when we say Trotskyism, we're talking about the schism that developed within the extreme left between Stalinism and Trotskyism.
00:18:54.020Of course, Trotsky says, and I would have been nicer, I wouldn't have murdered all those people.
00:18:57.920Too bad he led the Cheka, and, oh no, he didn't lead the Cheka, he led the Red Army and murdered hundreds of thousands or millions of people himself.0.91
00:19:04.880I think, you know, a bit of historical digression, but yeah, he comes from a Trotskyite position that thought Stalin was too conservative.
00:22:04.260I think this is the NDP explicitly saying
00:22:06.800we have no interest in actually governing anymore.
00:22:09.680We don't even want, we saw how disastrous
00:22:11.360the de facto coalition was with J.B. Singh.
00:22:13.440Jake Mead Singh was too moderate. We had to give up too much to get those kinds of things done.
00:22:17.500But we are going to try to radicalize the conversation here and try to win in metapolitics and not worry about trying to win too many seats and certainly not worry about trying to win government anymore.
00:22:29.580That's what I think. That's the big message, I think, that the NDP is explicitly making that decision right now.
00:22:35.000You may be or you may be reduced to a rump party and end up just having one or two seats next to Elizabeth May.
00:22:41.340well they're already essentially and having no no influence whatsoever
00:22:44.880their big problem right now is is money right they got to find as nigel says they got to find0.92
00:22:51.280some money men who are willing to put up uh big bucks to help them you know get some money in the
00:22:56.860bank massive yeah yeah massive massive but this could this could uh by going really hardcore here
00:23:03.000you could get some lefties who have you know some of them have jobs they you know they're white
00:23:07.760colored unionized government employees and professors by going this radical you might
00:23:12.480convince the faculty lounge at whatever ryerson university is called now to open up their wallets
00:23:18.240this could help them financially yeah maybe i mean uh lewis family himself is worth 28 million
00:23:24.480according to reports that would take a good chunk they didn't get that rich by giving it over the
00:23:29.680party no no there's donation caps there's there's some moderate workarounds that you know i'm going
00:23:37.120I'm going to give the donation cap, maximum donation limit.
00:25:56.660It's a difficult and very complicated subject.
00:25:59.880But his ancestry is curious in this case. He's Jewish. He's married to a Jewish woman. So obviously, he keeps his Jewish identity. But he's a secular Jewish person. I'm not sure if he's atheist or not, but he's certainly not orthodox.
00:26:18.580And he is explicitly, and in very no uncertain terms, anti-Zionist. He was asked about this at a press conference just the other day. And he says he comes from a long line of anti-Zionist Jews.
00:26:37.760He was a part of the Bund, which was kind of a Jewish communist group in the former, what became the Soviet Union, pre-revolutionary Russia before 1917.
00:26:51.680And I mean, I think that's a head scratcher to a lot of people that he would be not just not a Zionist himself, but explicitly anti-Zionist.
00:27:00.740I don't understand it terribly well, but I mean, there is a tradition on the radical left of that, like Trotsky.
00:27:07.760think this guy is a Trotskyite. Trotsky was Jewish, and he came from the radical radical left
00:27:14.480in the Bolshevik party, and he was anti-Zionist. And so there was kind of historically, if we're
00:27:22.640going back over 100 years here, 100 years, 100 years plus, conflict within the community about
00:27:29.120where you're going to be nationalist, so a Jewish nationalist being a Zionist, or internationalist
00:27:33.920being the extreme communists and so I think that's that's the best sense I
00:27:41.120can make of it as he comes from the other tradition and it's the minority
00:27:43.640tradition certainly within the Jewish population today but it is a
00:27:49.580tradition that that I think he comes from and and he says his father and his
00:27:54.200grandfather always come from I don't think that we need to be too puzzled
00:27:57.360about that Derek I mean we tend to think of the Jewish people as being united by
00:28:03.260their sufferings and therefore all thinking the same thing but they don't and there are some who
00:28:09.580will cheerfully sell out their you know their race if you want to put it that way for their own
00:28:14.700advantage here we have one uh it's not a surprise to me because there are lots of people who look
00:28:22.780like you and i who sell out people like us all the time well it's much more common among white0.90
00:28:30.540there's a number of different sects like there's a messianic jewish congregation that believes
00:28:38.140actually they've created this hybrid of believing in jesus being the messiah yet claiming to still
00:28:43.740be jewish they've got a church down west calgary although they would be ethnically jewish but
00:28:48.140religiously exactly but they deviate from the the other things i mean part of it too with the
00:28:54.140israel connection it's a pretty good indication there's going to be some secularism going on
00:28:58.860Because those who are the true believers believe that they have to be in possession of the Temple Mount for the coming of the Messiah.0.83
00:29:24.640But the bottom line is, as far as ideologies go, his extreme socialist ideology has overwhelmed any of the Jewish identity when it comes to the Zionism part.
00:29:34.420In a lot of the debates online and as vitriolic as they get, I certainly wade into them on X, you know, because I really take pleasure in the nuanced discussion I get.
00:29:42.320And some of the lunatics who really come after me on that one, though, you'll see they have the Palestine Plague and a shocking amount, honestly shocking, of the hammer and sickle.0.97
00:40:05.020I see it as a bit of an excuse for the independent side not able to organize itself appropriately for even a short-term campaign like this.
00:40:14.120Well, no disrespects to any of the people who've worked very hard on this project, but nobody has actually, by their words and actions, distinguished themselves as the leader.
00:40:26.100It ought to be pretty obvious by now who the guy is.