Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada's NDP: "Life Just Doesn't Have to Be S [15:05-16:43]

to save our auto industry, which is so entwined with the U.S. and Mexico, under NAFTA and now Kuzma, that we're really, really in an existential spiral with the auto industry in Canada. We need public ownership to put people back to work, to reconnect our country, to build an independent economy, and more than anything, we should be investing in the economy of care, where most of the biggest sector by employment in Canada, health care, education, long-term care, child care, these dominated by women, this industry underpaid and undervalued is the actual social fabric, the ties that bind us together in communities. You get way more economic benefit when you invest in care, and we need to pay women workers more and actually support what holds Canadians society together. We've got a very strong alternative offer that speaks to Canadians, and we still have a lot of work to do to kind of surface the contradictions and the carny story. He is a smart guy, and he's very popular right now, but we think that these programs are going to fail, because they're doubling down on the same old thing that got us in this mess in the first place. Aby Lewis, we want to thank you so much for being with us, the newly elected leader of Canada's new democratic party, speaking to us from Ottawa.