A show write-up for the July 29 episode of The Ezra Levant Show attacks New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s municipal grocery store plan — arguing subsidised below-cost pricing invites arbitrage and resale, that the city’s bodega sector is preparing to sue over unfair competition, and that the policy is less about food prices than about changing “what people think New York is, who belongs in it, and where it is headed.”
The Canadian hook is federal NDP leader Avi Lewis. The piece says Lewis “has proposed something eerily similar to that of Mamdani in New York, with plans for taxpayer-funded, government-run grocery stores on a larger scale: $300 million a year and fifty stores,” and repeats the figure later: a network of government grocery stores across Canada that “his campaign estimated would cost taxpayers approximately $300 million annually to operate 50 locations nationwide.” The episode frames the Canadian proposal as an import of Mamdani-style politics rather than an affordability measure, and extends the argument to protest activity in Toronto and Edmonton.
Note: Rebel News is a partisan outlet; this item is archived to document the coverage landscape around the NDP’s public grocery plank, not as a neutral or authoritative source.