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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.

Don Braid: Under Avi Lewis, the federal NDP looks more communist than social democratic Back to video

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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