Hier ist das „Experiment“, das NDP-Führer Avi Lewis in der kanadischen Politik durchzuführen versucht

>“It’s an experiment to see if politics can accommodate that kind of worldview, but it can only happen at the federal level. The federal government is the only level of government that has the resources and capacity and the levers to change the field of play.“

Lewis is really going all in on the „I don’t understand Canadian federalism“ narrative. Provinces are incredibly powerful, and the federal NDP would be wise to finally **re-**learn this. It seems somewhere in between Layton and Lewis that party just stopped taking the structure of Canadian federalism and power of the provinces into account. Given this, it’s really not surprising the party has disappeared in Quebec.

Watch his interview on Power and Politics, he had no answer for what „levers“ the federal government has to impose price caps on oil and gas, and he was seemingly completely unaware that it wasn’t within the regular jurisdiction of the federal government. If this guy wants to talk Canadian federalism, he needs to show he understands the basics first. A substantial number of Lewis‘ policies will run into the barrier of needing provincial cooperation to function efficiently or at all. I can’t take this guy seriously when he’s constantly demonstrating he doesn’t understand the system he’s working in.