Green Party in Canada Admits Editing Photo To Show Leader Holding Reusable Cup
The Hill | 09/26/19

Canada’s Green Party admitted it doctored a photo of its leader to show her holding a reusable cup instead of a paper one.

Elizabeth May, the longtime head of the party, said in a statement on Tuesday that her staff altered the photo, which had been taken last year during the Sidney Street Market in Victoria, British Columbia.

In the original photo, May held a paper cup without a straw. But in the doctored photo, she holds a reusable cup with a Green Party of Canada logo on it, as well as a metal straw.

“I was completely shocked to find that the party had photoshopped an image of me from last year’s Sidney Street Market,” May wrote in the statement. “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.”

— except on this particular day. . . . What a rare and unique photograph!

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Well you deleted cookies
And you cleared history
Got a Photoshopping cart
Just like our Hillary

That’s O.K.:
We’ll try to undo it
Get a “special” prosecutor
And you’re immune to it!

Hit me with your best ‘Shop
Why don’t you hit me with your best ‘Shop
Hit me with your best ‘Shop
Filed away

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