Discussion
in the environment section @votetanille has the best answer on the the reality of the canadian resource economy (as much as we like to fool ourselves we are still heavily a resource extraction economy)
really refreshing answers from her so far in this debate
Heather McPherson is also the only one so far to recognize another uncomfortable truth: The provincial NDP parties in this country are way more important and impactful and relevant than the federal one right now
Moderator inadvertently manifested nenshi as premier next year when she asked mcpherson "how would you negotiate between nenshi and eby, those 2 premiers" and IM MANIFESTING IT TOO
Maybe an unpopular opinion but: the Alberta NDP winning the provincial election in Alberta next year is actually way more important than this leadership race. Unlike the federal NDP, they actually have a chance at forming government.
This is especially with the Alberta fall referendum announced today which is just a huge disgusting targeting of immigrants in Alberta. Alberta right now is a lab for importing MAGA ideas, from targeting immigrants to targeting trans people to breaking organized labour, all through anti-democratic mechanisms. If these policies are enacted in Alberta they become acceptable and normalized things for governments to do in Canada. And that puts us on a very, very bad path.
Lewis had a good answer when asked about Nenshi that mentioned all of the things above w/ regards to what's happening in Alberta.
Although I'm not sure I heard Nenshi saying "who cares, we are united" the way Lewis is characterizing it...the last thing I heard Nenshi say is this 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/naheed-nenshi-ndp-leadership-race-9.7072751
desperately working the CPAC video player controls so I can hear what the Qu茅bec NDP member (and former candidate) Malcolm Lewis-Richmond is actually saying
@avilewis is the only one that credibly seems like he can rebuild the party in Qu茅bec
