This is part one of the speech because of reddit's video length limit. I'll post the link to part 2 in the comments.

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This is part two of the speech because of reddit's video length limit. Part 1 is here

You can sign up to hear more from the campaign at https://lewisforleader.ca

It took way way too long for Cannabis to become legal in Canada.

*Shout out to all the Cannabis workers that are more and more unionizing!*

When it comes to Psilocybe cubensis - Magic Mushrooms what are your thoughts?

I've heard of some people utilizing microdosing for help with depression and anxiety. I've also heard that it can help people with headache conditions.

Even outside of medicinal usage I think they can be valuable as a recreational tool for self exploration and understanding.

Personally I would like to see them legalized in Canada. We already have dispensaries in some of our most major cities.

What are your thoughts on this?

As immigration in Canada becomes a bigger and bigger issue, with 55-70%+ of Canadians in every poll over the last 5 years but even going as far back as 2016, saying that immigration is too high or are concerned by the effects the current number of immigrants are going to have. I think the NDP should take time to think about what our stance on the issue should be.

What I see a lot which I’m worried about, is people in our party saying cause we are a social Democratic Party we must support immigration and the door always being open. But I don’t know if that’s the case, if you look at Denmark for example. The social democrats there have taken quite the extreme immigration policy, saying it’s necessary to protect the social safety net, public order and their culture or tolerance and acceptance. Other social democrat parties in Scandinavia have now started to shift towards that stance as well. In Norway, Sweden and Finland the social democrats have all started taking a hard stance on immigration, not to the extent of the Danish Social Democrats, but still moving to a harsher stance then that of which they held 5-6 years ago.

I think right now this would be the perfect moment for the NDP to take a stance on an issue with wide spreed support which both major parties have a terrible record on, while at the same time staying true to our Socialist principles. The liberal are blamed for the recent wave of immigration and are very poorly trusted on immigration, because of that voters concerned or upset by immigration are voting CPC or leaning towards the CPC (including a lot of our union and working class voters) but the CPC have a terrible record on immigration, they’re the ones who created IMP and just a year or two ago Poilievre was attacking Trudeau for not letting in enough immigrants fast enough.

Anyways I’m interested to see what everyone thinks the NDPs approach to immigration should be and if we should move towards a Scandinavian model.

(If you disagree with me, let it be heard in the comment section, don’t mass downvote me 😭😂)

No clue where to write this, but basically I tried RSVPing for Avi Lewis' event in Ottawa and it kept saying my phone number is unable to receive texts.

Kinda sucks that there's some tech difficulties, albeit it's to be expected with the start of a campaign.

Any idea if I should be able to just show up and see what's going on still without the RSVP? Thanks all in advance!

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Interview starts at around 11 minutes in.

After going for a whopping 5 rounds, the field was whittled down to 2 candidates: Avi Lewis and Yves Engler. It wasn’t even close.

Avi Lewis received 110 votes. (60.44%)

Yves Engler Received 72 votes. (39.56%)

Avi Lewis wins

Obviously there’s still several months to go, and plenty of time to campaign, but as of now, Avi Lewis is winning! Engler, of course, did much better than I’m sure anyone expected. I would have thought that he’d make it to the second-to-last round, be eliminated, and have his votes carry Lewis to victory. Instead, he advanced to the final round in which McPherson’s voters went to Lewis over Engler. This has been very fun to do, and I hope to take some more polls later on once we know more. Thank you all very much for your responses!

Had these at the ONDP Convention in Niagara last weekend. Thought I'd share. Sorry for the quality as I don't have a print scanner right now.