Avi Lewis could spoil the Liberals' chances next election

It’s back to the future for the NDP — and then some. Last weekend the party elected 58-year-old filmmaker Avi Lewis as party leader. During his campaign, Lewis pledged to impose a wealth tax, stop oil and gas exploration, implement national rent control, and set up public grocery stores. Ed Broadbent, the NDP leader who wanted to nationalize banks back in the 1970’s, would be proud.

As would Lewi’s grandfather and his late father, who died Tuesday morning, who respectively led the federal party and its Ontario wing in years past. And Lewis’ mother, Michele Landsberg, an outspoken feminist activist and writer. Lewis has socialism in the blood. Read more here