If you think the Labour Party in Canada is a bit crazy, you should see the absolute loons in the New Democratic Party, which is the third-largest party in Canada.
The NDP, which got pretty much wiped out in the last general election, took a big lesson from the drubbing.
Become the faculty of a gender studies department at an Ivy League school.
I used to laugh when I saw this sort of thing in university.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) March 29, 2026
But university students grow up and become teachers, bureaucrats, lawyers and judges.
This is your ruling class now. pic.twitter.com/4IEwTsywE4
The NDP just held its leadership conference, in which they chose a white Zohran Mamdani to lead their party. It was a total clown show, all the way from their chair, a gender nonbinary thing with the charisma of a robot to the arcane speaking rules based on intersectionality, designed to ensure that genderqueer and minority speakers would get preference over white males, or as the Chair said, "dudes."
HAPPENING NOW: There's surprising amount of disagreement and intellectual diversity at the 2026 NDP leadership convention, but one matter everyone seems to agree on is that they hate the "equity cards." pic.twitter.com/BL6yMqFksx
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) March 29, 2026
Having been to more than my share of political conventions, I can say with great authority that they tend to be filled with cranks and crazies, no matter the party. The people who attend are a mix of political insiders and people whose entire identities are wrapped up in one or two issues, or who think that life itself should be run by Robert's Rules of Order.
But still, I have never seen anything like this outside of academia.
There is no Canadian flag. Just a Palestinian flag.
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) March 29, 2026
The NDP is an extreme, radical anti-Canadian party and the media refuse to notice.
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Still, national conventions tend to be very different because they are generally stage-managed to present the party in the best possible light. You want the clips and soundbites to appeal to ordinary people, and ideally, there should be a clear takeaway message.
It has come to my attention that today is Day Three of the 2026 NDP leadership convention and that yesterday was Day Two. I feel terrible about the mix up given the seriousness of the event and the gravity of the moment—so I've gone back and compiled some highlights from Day One. pic.twitter.com/eg65Z1VAPi
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) March 29, 2026
Well, the NDP certainly presented a clear message: Canada should be run like a humanities department in an elite university, complete with DEI statements, preferences based on intersectional ranking, a massive expansion of government along the lines of the DSA-aligned candidates in the United States, and an embrace of radical Islamists.
Canada, as Columbia University.
Canadian NDP socialist conference non-binary speaker gets ‘misgendered’ by non-binary woman wearing a keffiyeh.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 29, 2026
“I’ll again thank delegates not to call me madame chair…I’m a non-binary person my pronouns are they/them and their- chair is sufficient.”
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I have only seen the highlights, but that's the point: the highlights are what anybody evaluating the party will see. No ordinary Canadian will sit through discussions of parliamentary procedures. They want the BLUF: bottom line up front.
If I didn't know this was the NDP convention I would have honestly thought it was a Monty Pythons sketch. Absolute nutfuckery! pic.twitter.com/mxWFZT3w26
— Tokyo Rosie (@RosieRocks28) March 29, 2026
And the bottom line is that the World Economic Forum is way too conservative for their taste.
Canada's left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) has chosen former journalist and activist Avi Lewis as their new leader, after suffering major losses in the last federal election.
Lewis received 56% of the vote in a first ballot victory, defeating member of parliament Heather McPherson and three other candidates.
He ran on a platform to revive the struggling party, prioritising worker rights in the age of artificial intelligence, ending new oil and gas pipelines and projects, and exploring state-owned, non-profit grocery stores.
Once the main opposition party in 2011, the NDP now holds only six seats in Canada's House of Commons.
Like the Democrats here in the United States, the NDP has decided that their electoral failures are due to not being radical and crazy enough. They are doubling down on the culture war, climate hysteria, and the embrace of Islamists.
HAPPENING NOW: Union activist and NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton suggests we "eat the damn rich" to thunderous applause at the party's convention. pic.twitter.com/JRX0htZyhh
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) March 29, 2026
And, of course, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump was one of the main antagonists for the party as they met. It seems to be the great unifying principle of the left these days. The NDP is even arguing that Mark Carney, Canada's liberal Prime Minister, is a Trump clone.
I AM LIVE ON SCENE
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 29, 2026
AT THE CANADIAN NDP LEADERSHIP CONVENTION pic.twitter.com/cYLcfIh5Qu
Is it any wonder that there is a secession movement in Canada? Who wants to be associated with these loons?
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