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“Everything that the Liberals are pointing to, all the things they are saying that they achieved, literally would not have happened but for us. These are all things that we forced them to do.” That was Jagmeet Singh candidate of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), which in 2022 struck up an alliance with Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. That has now ended but on key issues the two were always on the same page. Like Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh is a fan of Communist dictator Fidel Castro.

“He saw a country wracked by poverty, illiteracy and disease,” Singh tweeted in 2016, “so he lead a revolution that uplifted the lives of millions.” No word about the Sado-Stalinist’s 50-year dictatorship that drove thousands to flee. Justin Trudeau is also an admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” and if China ever did anything with which Jagmeet Singh disagreed it’s hard to know what it might be.

In 2018, after China kidnapped two Canadians, the NDP leader could not openly condemn the Communist regime and CCP boss Xi Jinping. By contrast, Singh views Donald Trump as a “fascist” and seeks to ban him from attending a G7 summit in Alberta.

“Trump’s an economic arsonist, and in his attempt to burn down our house,” Singh proclaims. “He’s doing the same to the American economy.” And so on, all perfectly predictable and without significance. People on both sides of the border should know the back stories, starting with Singh’s party.

The NDP emerged from the Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (CCF), whose 1933 manifesto proclaims “We aim to replace the present capitalist system, with its inherent injustice and inhumanity, by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of one class by another will be eliminated, in which economic planning will supersede unregulated private enterprise and competition.” And so on, classic Stalin-Era boilerplate championed by this writer’s maternal grandfather, a prime mover of the CCF in Saskatchewan. As it happens, this writer also has common ground with Jagmeet his own self.

Jagmeet Singh was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough but in the early going the family moved to Windsor, where this writer also grew up. In Windsor, Singh claims, “I was told again and again in various ways that I didn’t belong” and “Windsor was a city where, if they didn’t like you, people would come up and just fight you.” If veterans of the city thought that was a stretch it would be hard to blame them. Jagmeet also claims to have encountered “racist bullies” in local schools. Veterans of those same schools have room for reasonable doubt.

In Canada, the Singh family became “very wealthy very quickly,” as the National Post explains, “a psychiatrist in a government-funded fee-for-service system has a very high earnings potential.”  To protect his son from Windsor’s racist bullies, Singh’s father sent Jagmeet to the exclusive Detroit County Day School where the tuition runs $26,000 (US) for the elementary grades and $34,000 for high school, books and uniforms not included. From there it was on to Western University in London, Ontario, and the Osgood School of Law at York University in Toronto.

As this background confirms, Jagmeet Singh has little in common with previous generations of immigrants or Canada’s indigenous people. His NDP, on the other hand, has a lot in common with Trudeau’s Liberals and even the “Progressive” Conservatives. They all support a massive government sector, high taxes, and onerous regulations, staples of the statist vision. They also support official “multiculturalism,” which needs explanation. Under this doctrine, all cultures are equal, but in practice it doesn’t work that way. Consider the story of Windsor resident Anne Widholm, who lived near this writer’s relatives.

On October 8, 2017, the 75-year-old grandmother was taking her customary walk after church when 21-year-old Habibullah Ahmadi attacked the woman with massive force. Neurosurgeon Dr. Balraj Jhawar called the attack “among the most brutal things I’ve seen in my career,” with the victim suffering “the worst skull fractures I’ve seen in my 12 years here in Windsor.”

Windsor police called it a “random attack” and a judge ruled that the “Windsor man,” whose booking photo was never released, had attacked Anne Widholm for no reason at all. For Dr. Balraj, “this is maybe representing a new, dark side of Windsor that we can’t let propagate.” Despite the doctor’s best efforts, Widholm lapsed into a coma and died a year later.

In 2017, Jagmeet Singh became federal NDP leader. With his background in Windsor, where he encountered “racist bullies,” Canadians might think Singh would take special interest in the case. If the NDP boss ever condemned the murderer or named his victim nothing has emerged that anybody can find. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne also took a pass.

To cite the national anthem, nobody in Canada’s ruling class seems to be standing on guard for innocent victims such as Anne Widholm. For his part, “Windsor man” Habibullah Ahmadi could be out of prison in 13 years.