The Federal NDP now proves itself to be an extremist ideological party.

[blackbird]

I don't see any hope for the federal NDP.  Its views do not represent any mainstream group of Canadians, only some minor extremist ideological groups.  It has fallen to an all time low as a fringe groups of extremists.

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Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis claims NDP leadership in front of waving Palestinian flag

Avi Lewis’ win of the NDP leadership in Winnipeg this weekend was expected. Husband of famous author Naomi Klein, and grandson of 1970s NDP leader David Lewis, Avi Lewis entered the race with the air of nepotism and celebrity — a factor missing from the four other leadership hopefuls. Lewis identifies himself as a proud anti-capitalist and eco-socialist. He has never held elected office.  

His victory speech began with the words: “If it isn’t already obvious, we are building a new foundation for our party, and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage.”  

Standing behind Lewis during his speech were at least three people in keffiyehs, symbolic of Canada’s disturbing and growing antisemitism problem. As broadcast on CPAC, one person began to wave a large Palestinian flag behind Lewis about two minutes into his address. Another waved a “renters over landlords” protest placard — held upside down. There was not a single Canadian flag in sight.  

Lewis’ promise about building a new foundation for the party is at odds with his leadership campaign slogan, which was “return the party to its roots… for the many, not the money.” This weekend’s convention made it clear that the party has little to do with its trade unionist roots: it’s now a party of far-left grievance culture and niche political obsessions.  

From the “equity cards” handed out to convention delegates, which allowed for persons with various “oppressed” or “equity-seeking” identities to jump to the front of the line and speak before other, lesser-oppressed delegates, to the wild screams of the audience, appearing rapturous  after leadership-hopeful Rob Ashton shouted “Eat the damn rich!” in the volume and tone of a 1990s WWE fighter — this weekend revealed that the NDP is comprised of the dregs  former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh left behind after consuming the party to support Justin Trudeau .   

Despite any talk about nationalized grocery stores, electoral reform, expanding (or at least maintaining) the public service sector, and unionizing every single employee in the country, petty squabbles between convention delegates made it clear that party principles will always take a back seat to identity politics and virtue signalling.  

On day two, a transgender-identified male insisted on speaking after a policy vote (on rescinding the Charter’s notwithstanding clause) had already passed. The delegate  complained that a “cisgender woman” spoke first , despite this delegate having held out an equity card based on their gender identity. “Hey, this pertains to multiple intersecting parts of my lived experience. I’d like to speak, I was rejected,” said the delegate.  

The chair,  lawyer and trans activist Adrienne Smith , responded apologetically before smirking about a request to have delegates form a “straight” line, so equity cards were more visible from the stage.  

Similarly, on day three, the convention chair and a delegate, both of whom identify as non-binary,  got into a tiff over the delegate using the term “madame chair.” After a keffiyeh-adorned delegate ranted about how there should be “no debate” over Canada’s non-involvement in the current Iran conflict, Smith, appearing on the verge of tears, replied with: “I’ll thank delegates not to call me ‘madame chair,’ I’m a non-binary person, my pronouns are they, them, and their.”  

Watching the convention felt like watching sketch comedy from 15 years ago. But this is real life. This is the federal NDP.  

What isn’t clear just yet is how many Canadians are paying attention to how outrageous the NDP has become. It’s possible that there are disillusioned (with Carney) Liberal voters who will be willing to move — or move back to — the NDP as they perceive Carney’s government shifting ever more to the right. But I suspect that number will be insignificant.  

Unless and until the NDP purges its ranks of ideological extremism, it won’t regain relevance. And with Avi Lewis at the helm, this is unlikely to happen.  

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Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis claims NDP leadership in front of waving Palestinian flag

[John Stone]

A socialist is an individual  suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true and/or deeply ideological and by extension unaffordable and/or unachievable.

Historically, in governance, they eventually run out of other people's money. 

 

[Barquentine]

10 hours ago, blackbird said:

I don't see any hope for the federal NDP.

Firstly: RIP NDP

Secondly: Will this prompt more floor-crossers?

But we can't ignore every idea: 

   Landlords can get greedy and arbitrarily jack up rents, especially through reno-victions.

   Severeal cities in the states are trying state run non-profit grocery stores. We only have a few large chains here and they've been caught colluding on prices. A little competition might help.

   Unions have brought about changes that have helped all workers.

   Why all the complaints about keffiyehs? This is Canada. You can wear whatever you want. (Except maybe in Quebec.)

 

[Legato]

 

[ironstone]

3 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Firstly: RIP NDP

Secondly: Will this prompt more floor-crossers?

But we can't ignore every idea: 

   Landlords can get greedy and arbitrarily jack up rents, especially through reno-victions.

   Severeal cities in the states are trying state run non-profit grocery stores. We only have a few large chains here and they've been caught colluding on prices. A little competition might help.

   Unions have brought about changes that have helped all workers.

   Why all the complaints about keffiyehs? This is Canada. You can wear whatever you want. (Except maybe in Quebec.)

 

Keffiyehs are often worn by people that have an intense hatred for Israel and Jews in general.

Government run grocery stores is just a bad idea. Why not let government run all stores?

Union membership has been trending down for years, even when the massive increase in the public service is taken into account. I was in the Teamsters for 17 years and they were absolutely useless. The dues were high and Local 91 always shut us down every time we tried to get in on the Teamster pension plan. They did repeatedly protect the shop steward(who was also the biggest troublemaker in the shop) from being fired.

The NDP member may have just chosen a leader that will pull the party down even farther than Jagmeet did, and that's saying a lot.

[CdnFox]

13 hours ago, blackbird said:

I don't see any hope for the federal NDP.  Its views do not represent any mainstream group of Canadians, only some minor extremist ideological groups.  It has fallen to an all time low as a fringe groups of extremists.

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Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis claims NDP leadership in front of waving Palestinian flag

Avi Lewis’ win of the NDP leadership in Winnipeg this weekend was expected. Husband of famous author Naomi Klein, and grandson of 1970s NDP leader David Lewis, Avi Lewis entered the race with the air of nepotism and celebrity — a factor missing from the four other leadership hopefuls. Lewis identifies himself as a proud anti-capitalist and eco-socialist. He has never held elected office.  

His victory speech began with the words: “If it isn’t already obvious, we are building a new foundation for our party, and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage.”  

Standing behind Lewis during his speech were at least three people in keffiyehs, symbolic of Canada’s disturbing and growing antisemitism problem. As broadcast on CPAC, one person began to wave a large Palestinian flag behind Lewis about two minutes into his address. Another waved a “renters over landlords” protest placard — held upside down. There was not a single Canadian flag in sight.  

Lewis’ promise about building a new foundation for the party is at odds with his leadership campaign slogan, which was “return the party to its roots… for the many, not the money.” This weekend’s convention made it clear that the party has little to do with its trade unionist roots: it’s now a party of far-left grievance culture and niche political obsessions.  

From the “equity cards” handed out to convention delegates, which allowed for persons with various “oppressed” or “equity-seeking” identities to jump to the front of the line and speak before other, lesser-oppressed delegates, to the wild screams of the audience, appearing rapturous  after leadership-hopeful Rob Ashton shouted “Eat the damn rich!” in the volume and tone of a 1990s WWE fighter — this weekend revealed that the NDP is comprised of the dregs  former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh left behind after consuming the party to support Justin Trudeau .   

Despite any talk about nationalized grocery stores, electoral reform, expanding (or at least maintaining) the public service sector, and unionizing every single employee in the country, petty squabbles between convention delegates made it clear that party principles will always take a back seat to identity politics and virtue signalling.  

On day two, a transgender-identified male insisted on speaking after a policy vote (on rescinding the Charter’s notwithstanding clause) had already passed. The delegate  complained that a “cisgender woman” spoke first , despite this delegate having held out an equity card based on their gender identity. “Hey, this pertains to multiple intersecting parts of my lived experience. I’d like to speak, I was rejected,” said the delegate.  

The chair,  lawyer and trans activist Adrienne Smith , responded apologetically before smirking about a request to have delegates form a “straight” line, so equity cards were more visible from the stage.  

Similarly, on day three, the convention chair and a delegate, both of whom identify as non-binary,  got into a tiff over the delegate using the term “madame chair.” After a keffiyeh-adorned delegate ranted about how there should be “no debate” over Canada’s non-involvement in the current Iran conflict, Smith, appearing on the verge of tears, replied with: “I’ll thank delegates not to call me ‘madame chair,’ I’m a non-binary person, my pronouns are they, them, and their.”  

Watching the convention felt like watching sketch comedy from 15 years ago. But this is real life. This is the federal NDP.  

What isn’t clear just yet is how many Canadians are paying attention to how outrageous the NDP has become. It’s possible that there are disillusioned (with Carney) Liberal voters who will be willing to move — or move back to — the NDP as they perceive Carney’s government shifting ever more to the right. But I suspect that number will be insignificant.  

Unless and until the NDP purges its ranks of ideological extremism, it won’t regain relevance. And with Avi Lewis at the helm, this is unlikely to happen.  

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Amy Hamm: Avi Lewis claims NDP leadership in front of waving Palestinian flag

I think that they're going to find out the problem is that they are not actually an extremist party. They have been taken over by extremists and the rest of the party is going to ignore them and not support them as a result

Not the outcome we wanted. Definitely not the outcome they wanted as they will find out

[Reg Volk]

Now proves to be an extremist ideological party??

These fools have been extremists for decades.  It was time people finally woke up and can see it.

[Legato]

 

"after leadership-hopeful Rob Ashton shouted “Eat the damn rich!” in the volume and tone of a 1990s WWE fighter — this weekend revealed that the NDP is comprised of the dregs  former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh left behind after consuming the party to support Justin Trudeau ."

Avi Lewis and his wife are multi millionaires.   

[Goddess]

15 hours ago, blackbird said:

From the “equity cards” handed out to convention delegates, which allowed for persons with various “oppressed” or “equity-seeking” identities to jump to the front of the line and speak before other, lesser-oppressed delegates,

 

15 hours ago, blackbird said:

petty squabbles between convention delegates made it clear that party principles will always take a back seat to identity politics and virtue signalling.  

 

15 hours ago, blackbird said:

Smith, appearing on the verge of tears, replied with: “I’ll thank delegates not to call me ‘madame chair,’ I’m a non-binary person, my pronouns are they, them, and their.”  

It was so cringe to watch.

This party will be going nowhere.

[herbie]

The opinions of those who can be distracted by waving a piece of cloth. Who suddenly decide the milquetoast version following of  the same road is 'extremist'.

The supporters and cheerer ons of limited black or white choices.

rolls eyes...

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, herbie said:

The opinions of those who can be distracted by waving a piece of cloth. Who suddenly decide the milquetoast version following of  the same road is 'extremist'.

The supporters and cheerer ons of limited black or white choices.

rolls eyes...

Still Hungover from the weekend?

[herbie]

Look at the red cloth, not the matador.... Moooo!

[CdnFox]

Just now, herbie said:

Look at the red cloth, not the matador.... Moooo!

Ahhh . still drunk.  Fair enough. How many cows are in the room with you right now exactly? Asking for a friend. 

[ironstone]

16 minutes ago, herbie said:

The opinions of those who can be distracted by waving a piece of cloth. Who suddenly decide the milquetoast version following of  the same road is 'extremist'.

The supporters and cheerer ons of limited black or white choices.

rolls eyes...

It's hard to deny that this particular leadership convention was not cringeworthy. 

Seriously, 'equity cards'?

They've made themselves look pretty foolish.

[Legato]

4 minutes ago, herbie said:

Look at the red cloth, not the matador.... Moooo!

You're not supposed to paint the inside of your bong.

[Army Guy]

2 hours ago, herbie said:

The opinions of those who can be distracted by waving a piece of cloth. Who suddenly decide the milquetoast version following of  the same road is 'extremist'.

The supporters and cheerer ons of limited black or white choices.

rolls eyes...

Funny how the left heads exploded after some one planted a NAZI flag during the convoy protest....and some how waving a Palestinian terrorist flag during a Canadian political party event is nothing to get worked up about...mean while the new leader is a jew, and he thinks this is alright....Yup some one left the door open down at the short bus factory and they escaped...

Edited March 30 by Army Guy

[Reg Volk]

 

[Reg Volk]

[WestCanMan]

9 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Landlords can get greedy and arbitrarily jack up rents, especially through reno-victions.

In what province is that the case?

I live in BC and I can tell you for absolute certain that they can't do any of those things here. 

Annual rent increases are capped at what the province establishes as a cost of living increase, usually around 2.3%. Landlords are not allowed to 'arbitrarily' increase rents here past that amount. 

You're not even allowed to do unnecessary renovations to a unit that's tenanted. You can only do necessary repairs to broken systems and energy efficiency updates here, and in the event of doing those upgrades, you have to apply for permission for a rent increase that's a maximum of [the regular annual rental increase plus up to 3% for the renovations]. 

It's most likely different in other provinces, but in BC, no way, Jose. 

[CdnFox]

7 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Annual rent increases are capped at what the province establishes as a cost of living increase, usually around 2.3%. Landlords are not allowed to 'arbitrarily' increase rents here past that amount. 

 

And even THEN the province occasionally decides that it's "not fair" to charge the cost of living rate and holds it below that even tho landlords are stuck with the increased costs. 

Also  Carney, whom Barq'er adores, was the renoviction king for brookfield. Yet somehow he still likes him  

[WestCanMan]

9 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Why all the complaints about keffiyehs? This is Canada. You can wear whatever you want. (Except maybe in Quebec.)

For the most part keffiyehs aren't an issue, it's just normal clothing for some people in other countries.

Over here, they are worn almost exclusively to show one's solidarity with a genocidal cause. 

And TBH, it's the dual issue of "several keffiyehs but not a single Canadian flag".

And that's not really an "issue", per se, but it's very telling that there's not a single person there who would rep the Maple Leaf but there are several people whose main loyalty is to a genocidal cult. 

[Reg Volk]

9 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

In what province is that the case?

I live in BC and I can tell you for absolute certain that they can't do any of those things here. 

Annual rent increases are capped at what the province establishes as a cost of living increase, usually around 2.3%. Landlords are not allowed to 'arbitrarily' increase rents here past that amount. 

You're not even allowed to do unnecessary renovations to a unit that's tenanted. You can only do necessary repairs to broken systems and energy efficiency updates here, and in the event of doing those upgrades, you have to apply for permission for a rent increase that's a maximum of [the regular annual rental increase plus up to 3% for the renovations]. 

It's most likely different in other provinces, but in BC, no way, Jose. 

yes renters have all the power here in the communist wasteland of BC.  Then these fools cry about how there are no places to rent.  They never understand the term "consequences", ever.

[WestCanMan]

2 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

And even THEN the province occasionally decides that it's "not fair" to charge the cost of living rate and holds it below that even tho landlords are stuck with the increased costs. 

Also  Carney, whom Barq'er adores, was the renoviction king for brookfield. Yet somehow he still likes him  

I'd love it if interest rates were capped at 2.3%/yr lol, but that won't work for the banks that our LPoC work for. 

[WestCanMan]

2 minutes ago, Reg Volk said:

yes renters have all the power here in the communist wasteland of BC.  Then these fools cry about how there are no places to rent.  They never understand the term "consequences", ever.

If you want to earn money in real estate, you need to talk to herbie.

He once "renovated a home in Barriere, using money from his credit card, and "TRIPLED" its value."

Not even Tom Wu can do that.

[Reg Volk]

I like how Avi Lewis has embraced this insanely stupid "government grocery store" that the massive fool Mamdani is pumping in New York.  Apparently Avi's wife Naomi Klein was a part of getting Mamdani elected in NYC, so of course Avi is on the commie grocery store train.