Fantasizing about expanding government disasters, such as Avi Lewis's state-run grocery stores, is the main purpose of the NDP, writes Matthew Lau. Photo by Ian Kucerak/Postmedia files

The most notable thing about NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis’s proposal for government-run grocery stores is the timing. The idea is so bad and so obvious to the socialist mind that it is astonishing the NDP had not proposed it sooner.

In addition to all the obvious reasons government grocery stores are a bad idea — which anyone who has taken a good high school economics course could enumerate — there is the real-world experience of Canadian consumers. A McKinsey article last month compared Canadians’ satisfaction with government services with their satisfaction with the private sector: mo

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