I debated Avi Lewis on stage, and now watching him campaign for NDP leadership is pure performance politics. Overnight its pipelines, green energy, Indigenous rights, coastlines, the full moral checklist.
But not a word about Canada’s deteriorating relationship with the United States, the single most important trade pillar of our economy.
You don’t get to posture about ‘nation-building’ while ignoring the fact that weakening U.S. trade costs real jobs, real investment, and real leverage. Pipelines to Asia might bring in money, but they don’t replace what’s lost when you alienate your closest ally.
This is exactly what the NDP does best: big symbols, loud virtue, and silence on the hard economic math.
Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
We will stand up for Indigenous rights, for our coast, for our country. We will fight to protect the places we love like our lives depend on it, because they absolutely do.