Tom Mulcair: Avi Lewis hat mit seinen Plänen, von Pharmazeutika bis hin zu Lebensmitteln alles zu verstaatlichen, etwas vor

>He’s not just proposing to have the federal government run grocery stores, he wants to hobble the resource sector as well. It may not have been surprising that NDP leaders in Alberta and Saskatchewan criticized him, but it was unprecedented to see them come out so forcefully against a new federal leader.

>On the Monday after his election, Lewis was pleading for talks with the recalcitrant NDP in resource-producing provinces. There’s nothing new for a federal political leader to have to learn to juggle regional interests. ***But Lewis seems to have a very high opinion of his opinions and the talks he’s proposing seem, for now, to be more like an invitation to listen to him explain why he’s right.***

This is exactly why they shouldn’t go and meet with Lewis. There is absolutely no point in sitting down for a „conversation“ with someone who has told you repeatedly for over a decade that they will not listen to you or change their position. Lewis isn’t changing his opinion, and those opinions are never going to be viable in Saskatchewan or Alberta. He will keep pushing them even if it harms the NDP’s chances in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Lewis needs to leave Saskatchewan and Alberta alone if he wants them to win so bad.

Re-nationalize the railways. Biggest mistake ever was privatizing C.N. and allowing CP to remain private. Rail is critical infrastructure and absolutely prints money. If the government had kept it and put all the profits back into the infrastructure for the 20 years it would be generating billions in revenue still.