Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada's NDP: "Life Just Doesn't Have to Be S [10:01-15:05]

another story about how the NDP is toast. And yet in the leadership campaign, we signed up tens of thousands of new members in every single part of this country. We set fundraising records for the NDP in the leadership race. And we won on the first ballot in a ranked ballot system with the largest margin and the largest absolute votes of any NDP leadership campaign in history, including Jack Layton when he was first elected leader. So there's something going on here up here in Canada. Don't romanticize it as Americans too often do, but we are building, like Zora Mamdani is building, like Bernie and others are building. And we're very optimistic. I mean, Luis, I want to turn to the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, speaking in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January. We knew the story of the international rules base order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful. An American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a state people financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. The former banker, the Canadian Prime Minister, sounds like he could be you, Avi Lewis. What does he actually mean? I mean, this is a speech that caught the world's attention. And what are you countering it with at the NDP? Well, you know, that Davos speech, I think rightly, got a lot of attention. It was nice to hear a grown-up in the room. He's in her bane, intelligent guy, Mark Carney. But there's been a stark gap between those words and the reality. Canada's liberal government has utterly failed to condemn the genocide in Gaza. The NDP has been really clear on the moral rupture, the tearing at the fabric of humanity that represents the human experience for all of us in a huge majority of Canadians watching a live stream genocide. The liberals have claimed they have an arms embargo in Israel. And yet there's vast loopholes where we sell arms to the United States and their arms washed and delivered to Israel when Israel and the United States started the reprehensible illegal attack on Iran that has destabilized the entire world. Mark Carney in the first hours praised that attack and played up the Iran nuclear threat, which we know there's not a shred of evidence for. And so there's a really harsh contrast between the Davos speech, which really did speak to a desire for a more level and clear political perspective and the actual actions of the Canadian government. So the other thing is yesterday Carney announced a sovereign wealth fund as a way to fund these major projects. We are in the mood to do big things in Canada. But these huge extractive projects with this new sovereign wealth fund, which is going to be unlike Norway's, which is now over $2 trillion worth, because they harvested through public ownership in the oil industry. They harvested royalties and profits and saved them and redistributed them to build their social safety net. Canada has done the exact opposite. We ship 97 percent of our oil and gas straight to the United States. It's come down to tiny bit, but that's been the historic figure. And foreign corporations, our oil industry is still 60 percent U.S. owned. And a lot of these extractive projects, the profits are going to go straight to U.S. and other foreign corporations, but that's what we're doubling down on under Carney. This sovereign wealth fund is a great example of the liberal double speak. He references Norway. It's a completely different model. It's another private partnership where they're going to put $25 billion of public money into a fund that's supposed to attract massive amounts of private capital. But what they're really doing is de-risking these big projects like a new oil and gas pipeline, which has no private sector proponent in Canada. They're going to do it anyway to achieve political peace with Alberta, which has never actually been achieved, despite the fact that we already bought them a $40 billion pipeline at public expense. To do it all over again, they're going to put public money behind it and this is the direction. We're saying we need a new direction for the Canadian economy. We have been connecting climate action with addressing the cost of living emergency. So we've been advancing a whole bunch of concrete solutions like a heat pump in every home, a whole new industry, manufacturing jobs using Canadian steel that we can't sell to the United States because of Trump's tariffs. In order to slash people's household bills for heating in Canada, which are significant and slash emissions at the same time, an electric bus revolution to reconnect this vast country