Avi Lewis ruins Canada PM Mark Carney over ‘Iran war was worth it’ gaffe
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Avi Lewis has just rinsed ex-banker PM Mark Carney over a bizarre claim that the US war on Iran was “worth it”. Lewis said Carney’s comments were ‘disturbing’ and an ‘insult’ to Iranians killed by the “imperial’ war of aggression. He also said the war had harmed the Canadian workers hit with higher costs for basic necessities. Lewis — think Jeremy Corbyn plus Zack Polanski plus a bit of Naomi Klein (he is the left-wing author’s husband) — is the socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist Jewish leader of Canada’s most left-wing electoral party. Lewis was responding…

