Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May showed of her wizardly skills by transforming a dangerous paper cup into an environmentally-friendly cup with a metal straw. The photos above provide incontestable proof of the miraculous transformation.
From Slate:
Canada’s Green Party—which holds just two seats but is polling at around 10 percent nationally—admitted to Photoshopping a compostable disposable cup out of a photo of party leader Elizabeth May ahead of next month’s election, replacing it with a reusable version and metal straw.
For her part, Elizabeth May is shocked, completely shocked:
I was completely shocked to find that the party had photoshopped an image of me from last year’s Sidney Street Market. My personal daily practice is to avoid single use plastic items 100% of the time. I never drink from plastic water bottles. I always carry my own reusable coffee cup. I carry my own bamboo utensils. I walk the talk every day. I hope that despite this misstep by well-meaning party staff (who hoped to brand the image with our logo), people can believe that in the original photo there is nothing I would have hidden.