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Braid: Under new leader Avi Lewis, federal NDP looks more communist than social democratic

The economic agenda is the deeper danger

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

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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.........

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