With the closure of BioWare , a staple of Canadian game development for 30 years, people who you don’t usually expect to see weighing in on video games suddenly are. Usually it’s when a politician catches whiff of just how fucked things have become in the video game industry thanks to all the layoffs and consolidation that they start drawing attention to the corporate depravity that has infected the whole business. Avi Lewis, leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, has weighed in on the loss of the Edmonton-based Mass Effect studio and said that the Canadian government should step in to assist the employees of BioWare in buying and running the studio.

Lewis posted to his social media accounts that, despite all the conspiratorial nonsense suggesting that this happened because Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a non-binary character in it, the actual underlying reason BioWare has been shut down is because the studio’s parent company, EA, is now owned by private equity after its acquisition by the Saudi…