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Canada's Green Party alters photo of leader using single-use cup | Canada's Green Party alters photo of leader using single-use cup |
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Canada’s Green party has admitted to manipulating a photograph on its website to make it seem as if the party leader was using a reusable plastic cup and metal straw instead of a disposable paper cup. | Canada’s Green party has admitted to manipulating a photograph on its website to make it seem as if the party leader was using a reusable plastic cup and metal straw instead of a disposable paper cup. |
The image shows Elizabeth May, smiling and holding a plastic cup emblazoned with the Green party logo and with a metal straw inserted in its cover. | |
But the same photo had previously appeared on news websites and showed that May was holding a paper cup with no straw, the National Post reported. | |
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Confronted with the clear discrepancy, May told reporters she was “completely shocked” that staff had edited the image without her approval. | Confronted with the clear discrepancy, May told reporters she was “completely shocked” that staff had edited the image without her approval. |
“And I’m sorry for the staff person that did it. I don’t want to call them stupid on television, but there was nothing there to hide. So why Photoshop it? I have no idea.” | “And I’m sorry for the staff person that did it. I don’t want to call them stupid on television, but there was nothing there to hide. So why Photoshop it? I have no idea.” |
May denied that the manipulated image was meant to bolster her environment credentials, arguing that paper cups are compostable. | May denied that the manipulated image was meant to bolster her environment credentials, arguing that paper cups are compostable. |
“It won’t surprise you to know I never take a plastic drinking water bottle, I carry my own mug, I carry my own utensils on airplanes so I never take a single-use plastic item,” May told reporters. “So it’s bizarre that the notion of fakery should stretch to someone who doesn’t fake anything.” | “It won’t surprise you to know I never take a plastic drinking water bottle, I carry my own mug, I carry my own utensils on airplanes so I never take a single-use plastic item,” May told reporters. “So it’s bizarre that the notion of fakery should stretch to someone who doesn’t fake anything.” |
In recent months, plastics have become an environmental touchstone in Canadian politics, after the Liberal government pledged in June to ban single-use plastics, including disposable plates and utensils, by as early as 2021. Shortly afterwards, however, Justin Trudeau was photographed in a meeting with single-use items scattered on the table, and as a result, some politicians have become wary of images that could potentially undercut their environmental credentials. | |
How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste | How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste |
May did, however, have advice for her team in the event they chose to manipulate another image: “If they’re going to Photoshop, couldn’t they do something with my face and make it look a little younger?” | |
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