Yeah, no, that's just going to come across as the same latte-sipping, champagne-flute-raising nonsense that's got the NDP to where it is, outflanking the Libs to lose elections by garnering the votes of elites in Toronto and Vancouver. None of the blue collar people you should be trying to appeal to are going to buy that their jobs need to be transitioned out of and their taxes need to be raised to support an "aggressive energy transition strategy" even if you think you have excellent reasoned arguments about why it is so.
Pepsi is definitely right that you can approach climate policy, along with everything else, through a pro-labour lens, but you do have to figure out who your core constituency is, what they want, and meet them halfway there (or more than halfway, given how much ground there is to make up).
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