The federal NDP, now run by cis male Avi Lewis, showed us two kinds of crazy at their leadership convention on the weekend.

First, there was social crazy, with arguments over whose victimized identity deserved time at the mic.

Delegates who have identified with the same gender assigned at birth — “cis” people — didn’t have much chance.

Then came economic crazy. Lewis’s economic notions border on 20th-century communism.

I do not use that word lightly, having seen real communism at its worst in East Berlin, the Soviet Union and satellite Somalia.

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Lewis wants a national bank — run by Canada Post. Don’t worry, your money will be available after the latest strike.

Western NDP activists are appalled. They feel Lewis couldn’t have won without heavy membership sales to Green party followers, as well as some communists.

One outcome is likely to be divorce decrees by provincial New Democratic Parties in Saskatchewan, B.C. and Alberta.

Lewis is poison in resource provinces. He makes ex-federal minister Steven Guilbeault sound like a wildcatter.

The Alberta NDP under Naheed Nenshi tried a trial separation. New members can opt out of automatic membership in the federal party.........

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