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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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Ironically this is a jab done by "poor vs elite" Ava Lewis, someone who Wolven views Ava Lewis as the favourite to run the NDP to get back to its roots as a workers party.
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The Leap's least controversial idea is that we need to wean our economy off fossil fuels as quickly as possible – certainly by mid-century – which means an immediate energy transition. This view has been voiced in recent years now by latte-swilling hipster celebrity activists like former governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney, the U.K.'s Sir Nicholas Stern, and principal secretary to the Prime Minister Gerald Butts (before he got his government job).
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Basically, Ava Lewis is a self-claimed latte-swilling hipster pointing to others as having similar stances (while sarcastically dismissing them as non-hispters) to validate his own. And he sees this as a 'gotcha'. That's how out of touch he is.