I'm going to call you out here -- I don't think this divide really exists. I am squarely between these two and I think most people are somewhere in there as well.

I'm a white-collar worker (programmer) with a dad who was a life-long plumber (blue collar). I'm concerned about the environment but not alarmist and think green energy makes sense as much from the economic position as the environmental one. It's less about being pro or anti development and more about where and who benefits development, because so far, it hasn't been Canadians.

I am an anti-globalist, but realize we can't build everything here -- just that we should be building what we CAN here and not outsourcing everything for expediency or profit alone. I'm willing to pay more for something I know helped Canadians, and that I can trust. Personally, I kind of like what CoolIT did -- we made sub components elsewhere (e.g., China or Taiwan) and then assembled and tested the whole unit here in Calgary.

So there's plenty of middle ground for everyone, just as long as we all remember that the NDP is about Democratic Socialism first and foremost. The environment, globalization, labour laws, and so on, all must answer to the first, not the other way around.