Posted on 02/28/2007 4:56:08 AM PST by fanfan
If the Canada Revenue Agency is not politically biased, their chance to prove it is now.
Last Friday, David Suzuki launched a partisan political attack against the federal Conservatives in front of a group of Calgary elementary school kids, no less.
The renowned environmentalist savaged Prime Minister Stephen Harper in front of a gymnasium full of kindergarten to Grade 6 students, who raised $835 for Suzuki's self-named charitable foundation.
"The only thing (Harper) cares about is getting re-elected with a majority government," ranted Suzuki.
That most of those kids would have no clue who Harper is, didn't matter to Suzuki. He knew he had a soap box and insisted on using it for political purposes.
He admitted as much when he said some of his message was directed at the parents and teachers in the room, because the children don't vote and Harper doesn't care about them.
Suzuki was essentially urging those listening not to vote Conservative. That makes his message partisan and should exempt the David Suzuki Foundation from receiving tax deductible status.
"It's up to your moms and dads to ensure your futures and livelihoods are part of the agenda.
"I don't believe there is a green bone in Harper's body," continued an angry Suzuki. "(Harper) has never, ever indicated he cares about the environment."
Judging by how a Catholic church bishop was treated when Paul Martin was prime minister, Suzuki should expect a call from the CRA any day now threatening to revoke his foundation's tax-deductible status.
BISHOP GETS A CALL
Back in June of 2004, Calgary's Catholic Bishop Fred Henry was called by a revenue agency bureaucrat who threatened to revoke the church's charitable status number if the Bishop continued to speak out against Martin's "moral incoherence".
Bishop Henry revealed the call and described it as a "veiled threat -- 'you either play ball or we'll revoke your charitable status number.'"
Concerned his flock would be confused by Martin's contradictory positions -- parading about as a "devout Catholic" while holding views diametrically opposed to Catholic tenets on abortion and same-sex marriage -- Henry wrote a letter in his church bulletin, reminding his followers about the Church's positions on those controversial issues.
Speaking of hypocrisy, Suzuki clearly doesn't walk his talk.
The man has an enormous home with huge windows overlooking windy Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver. He has at least one other home as well. To say he's over housed, is an understatement.
Now, it appears he's fond of travelling around in vehicles too large for his needs.
Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck broke the story last week, pointing out Suzuki is travelling across Canada lecturing us peons on how to emit less greenhouse gasses, even as he rides in spacious luxury in a diesel-spewing tour bus that is large enough to ordinarily seat up to 54 people, but is only transporting eight at any one time -- including the driver.
Then there's former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth ,urges us to use less energy.
According to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, Gore's home uses more electricity in one month than the average American household uses in a year.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson with the CRA said yesterday, if someone complains about Suzuki's partisan rants by calling 1-800-267-2384, it will be investigated and "taken seriously".
But I fear the nature of things in Ottawa is that charitable groups can be politically partisan as long as they are Liberal or left of centre, with no threat to their tax-free status.
A very convenient truth for David Suzuki.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
Enviro-weenie = leftie = hypocrite.
Canada's Algore.
Hypocricy is a sacrament for the left.
Use the leftist tactic: Call Suzuki a racist and a member of the Japanese neo-imperialist eugenicists. It will force him off topic and make him to defend himself the rest of his loony trip.
If David Suzuki were sincere about the environment he would strive to unite all political parties behind the cause. This was what the highly respected and much loved Steve Irwin was all about.
Which is one of the reasons that David Suzuki is neither respected, or well loved.
;-)
"Speaking of hypocrisy, Suzuki clearly doesn't walk his talk.
The man has an enormous home with huge windows overlooking windy Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver. He has at least one other home as well. To say he's over housed, is an understatement.
Now, it appears he's fond of travelling around in vehicles too large for his needs.
Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck broke the story last week, pointing out Suzuki is travelling across Canada lecturing us peons on how to emit less greenhouse gasses, even as he rides in spacious luxury in a diesel-spewing tour bus that is large enough to ordinarily seat up to 54 people, but is only transporting eight at any one time -- including the driver."
Then there's former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth ,urges us to use less energy.
"Hollywood had to wait until the day after handing Gore his Oscar to read about the hypocrisy of how the energy to run his 8-bedroom mansion costs 20 times the average American home. But Nine Facts About Climate Change author Ray Evans told The Age in an interview a month ago that Gore's film is "bullshit from beginning to end".
There is one key and very evil person behind the latest Global Warming BS.
That person is George $oreA$$!. He is betting on global warming legislation with his hedge funds, and he is probably financing Al Gore and the other Global Warming alarmists in the Congress and across this country.
Go to this search link on $oreA$$ and Global Warming to see the reality behind this latest big left wing scare tactic to weaken America.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Soros%20and%20Global%20Warming
John Oakley and David Suzuki
Do temper tantrums cause global warming?
www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover022207.htm
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, February 22, 2007
David Suzuki became a walking advertisement for global warming proof positive when he angrily stormed out of a radio interview with Toronto AM640's John Oakley one week ago today.
Suzuki, a prominent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television commentator, who motors around Canada in a bus garishly painted with climate change logos, registered hot air when Oakley suggested that global warming might not be the "totally settled issue" Suzuki is out there shilling.
Outbursts that shut down information-seeking interviews don't shed any more light on the subject that Suzuki and his American counterpart Al Gore have turned into: The Big Issue of the Day.
Why are global warming crusaders becoming increasingly intolerant of global warming skeptics? (Click here and here)
Did Suzuki lose his global cool because global warming guru Al Gore was due in Toronto within the week of the Oakley-Suzuki interview?
Are Suzuki, Gore and Company trying to ensure man-made global warming as a fait accompli so that Kyoto Protocol architect Maurice Strong will be able to see his life's achievement up in neon lights, among persistent rumours that the elderly Strong is in failing health?
Why would Suzuki fly into a rage if he were only telling the truth?
Suzuki's bizarre behaviour brought him rare criticism from the mainstream media, including the Globe & Mail's Barbara Kay: "The remorseless pressure on Canadians to sign up for environmental orthodoxies that they are not cognitively equipped to judge is demoralizing and divisive. Tantrums by self-anointed prophets do not help the situation. Whatever the eventual outcome on the global warming front, we could all use a little non-partisanship, maturity and attitudinal cooling on the behavioural front."
Joseph C. Ben-Ami, Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Values and Director of Policy Development defrocked Suzuki as a capitalist masquerading as an environmental activist in his column, Global Warming Charlatan.
"It's hard to imagine any Canadian being unfamiliar with David Suzuki and his long career as an environmental activist. Indeed, Suzuki has, over the years, managed to parley worry about the environment into a multi-million dollar business, making him one of Canada's great contemporary capitalists," Ben-Ami wrote.
..."Suzuki was a guest on the John Oakley show as part of his cross-Canada tour drumming up support for the Kyoto Protocol, (or more accurately, stirring up opposition to the federal Conservative Government for its environmental transgressions, real and imagined, specifically its apparent reticence in implementing the provisions of the treaty).
"During the course of that interview, Suzuki makes a number of claims that are, shall we say, dubious.
"To begin with, he suggests that if Canada fails to meet its Kyoto targets, we will become "international outlaws". (To hear the audio clip click here.)
This assertion is stunningly ignorant. The Kyoto Protocol is not criminal law by any standard. It is an agreement -- in other words, a contract, not unlike those that people enter into all the time. Parties to contracts sometimes find, for any number of reasons that they are unable to meet their obligations, forcing them to re-negotiate the terms of the contract, abrogate the contract, or simply repudiate it. Sometimes the act of breaking a contract is accompanied by penalties as stipulated in the agreement, and sometimes penalties are imposed by courts -- but when they are, it is always civil courts that impose penalties, never criminal courts. It seems that in David Suzuki's world, you would be branded an 'outlaw' if you lost your job and could no longer afford the mortgage payments you believed you could.
"It gets worse.
Having demonstrated how little he knows about the workings of international treaties, Suzuki dismisses questions about the scientific integrity of Kyoto, characterizing as "a lot of baloney" Oakley's observation that "a lot of scientists feel they're intimidated from speaking out..."
"2,500 scientists signed the IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) Report on February 2!" Suzuki exclaims. (To hear the audio clip click here.)
"My suspicion already aroused by his false allegation of 'outlaw' behaviour, I decided to check this out for myself -- and discovered that, in fact, only 51 individuals signed the IPCC Report released on February 2. (Click here to download a copy of this report.)
"It seems that the Great Suzuki got that one wrong too. Quelle surprise!
"There's more.
"After Suzuki insinuates that scientists who disagree with him are "shilling" for big corporations, Oakley asks him where he gets his funding. Suzuki replies that his foundation takes no money from governments and complains that "corporations have not been interested in funding us." (To hear the audio clip click here.)
"Corporations uninterested? Is it possible that the Great Suzuki has failed to attract a single corporate donation to his feel-good campaign to save the earth? Not one?
"Actually, the David Suzuki Foundation's annual report for 2005/2006 lists at least 52 corporate donors including: Bell Canada, Toyota, IBM, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Microsoft, Scotia Capital, Warner Brothers, RBC, Canon and Bank of Montreal.
(Suzuki's mentor Maurice Strong incidentally is on the Suzuki Foundation's board of directors and was before joining up as a business partner with George Soros on a scheme to flood the American market with Chinese manufactured Chery cars, on the board of directors of Toyota).
The David Suzuki Foundation also received donations from EnCana Corporation, a world leader in natural gas production and oil sands development, ATCO Gas, Alberta's principle distributor of natural gas, and a number of pension funds including the OPG (Ontario Power Generation) Employees' and Pensioners ' Charity Trust. OPG is one of the largest suppliers of electricity in the world operating 5 fossil fuel-burning generation plants and 3 nuclear plants... which begs the question -- is Suzuki now pro-nuclear power?
"If I were less generous, I might be tempted to accuse Suzuki of hypocrisy for accepting donations from corporations that he must believe contribute significantly to the production of greenhouse gases, but that would miss the point entirely. The real issue is that, contrary to his clear assertion, the David Suzuki Foundation does receive funding from corporations," says Ben-Ami.
"The jury may still be out when it comes to assessing climate change and global warming; it's not out when it comes to assessing David Suzuki and the reliability of his testimony. Suzuki is a charlatan, a shameless self-promoter who foments fear in his audience before promising them salvation -- but only if they buy his miracle cure. The only difference is that in his case, Suzuki's miracle cure is deadly to those who take it.
We can't confuse Suzuki with any facts.....he won't stand for it.
How have you been?
I loved his 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' stuff. :-)
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