Tom Mulcair: Avi Lewis is on to something with his plans to nationalize everything from pharmaceuticals to groceries

Tom Mulcair/CTV: He’s not just proposing to have the federal government run grocery stores, he wants to hobble the resource sector as well. It may not have been surprising that NDP leaders in Alberta and Saskatchewan criticized him, but it was unprecedented to see them come out so forcefully against a new federal leader.

On the Monday after his election, Lewis was pleading for talks with the recalcitrant NDP in resource-producing provinces. There’s nothing new for a federal political leader to have to learn to juggle regional interests. But Lewis seems to have a very high opinion of his opinions and the talks he’s proposing seem, for now, to be more like an invitation to listen to him explain why he’s right…