Canada’s Green Party leader magically changes paper cup into reusable cup

The left right spectrum needs to be taken with a bit of relativity. I’m from Canada, and here the national Liberal party is considered centre-left, NDP and Green are considered left for us, and we do have extreme left parties, but they are not as popular.

In BC, however, the provincial Liberal party is considered the right wing party, as the conservatives have very little support. The Greens and NDP are closer to centre left there.

If you’re trying to make a point about how right leaning Canada is, you could talk about the global left-right spectrum, but if you’re discussing party platforms in the current political climate, it’s less useful to describe all parties as right. Greens are very left, but not extreme left, for Canada right now.

Speak for yourself. They are only “centre left” for Canada, which is far more right than we’d like to pretend, and creeping farther in that direction.

Compared to the US, we (and the LPC) are left, but not globally.

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Not sure what we’re disagreeing on. I didn’t make any claims about where it sits globally (it is globally to the right).

Because not all of us do take such a narrow view and do look at where we sit globally, especially when posting on a global forum, and therefore don’t speak or think of them as being “centre left”? As I said:

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That relativity is why far right politics is becoming viewed as acceptable.

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I’m not disagreeing that the spectrum is shifted right in Canada, but I’m also not some kind of obscure, lone voice referring to the Liberals this way as a Canadian. The Wikipedia article says the same thing:

… generally sits at the centre to centre-left of the Canadian political spectrum

I think we’re infighting on semantics here. We agree that it’s left of centre in Canada and right globally, why do you have a bone to pick?

Took this crappy photo of Elizabeth May in a Dodge Viper at the Victoria Day parade this year… I thought it was kind of funny at the time.

I am sure there are more compromising photos of her using single user plastics. Probably nothing as grotesque as showing up for a school halloween party in black face though. Maybe someone can photoshop her into a Tesla for giggles? :man_shrugging:

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One girl, two cups.

Greta is watching.

And she’s not happy.

Kinsella, Kinsella, Kinsella.

FWIW, on the original post page just before the comments link, I was presented with an ad for K-cup pods. Well, they do claim they’re recyclable.

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