WINNIPEG — Newly named NDP leader Avi Lewis says he’d be “delighted” to take advice from predecessor Jagmeet Singh, who led the party to a near-total collapse in last year’s election. “I would be delighted to get advice from Jagmeet,” Lewis told reporters in Winnipeg in his first press conference since winning the party’s leadership on the first ballot on Sunday. Singh led the NDP to its worst ever result in last April’s election, winning seven seats and losing official party status. Lewis’s words of praise for Singh come after he said in an interview last week that he had “no intention” of taking advice from another former NDP leader, Thomas Mulcair. Singh, who first became leader in late 2017, also led the NDP into the 2019 federal election, where the party lost 15 seats and 3.74 per cent of the popular vote nationally.

Source: National Post March 31, 2026 04:48 UTC