David Suzuki, on the John Oakley show:
I’m not getting any money from my foundation. I’m getting my money, the foundation gets its money, from ordinary people. We don’t take government money, corporations have not been interested in funding us. We get it from ordinary Canadians across the country. 40,000 thousand of them and we get some foundations in both Canada and the United States. So that’s my agenda. We speak on behalf of the people that fund us.
(To hear the audio clip click here.)
Joseph C. Ben-Ami;
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.
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.
Via Lisa at DMB.
Related: Steve Janke;
You might remember John Duffy from the last election. He was the Liberal mouthpiece who threatened CTV’s Mike Duffy off the air, then was chewed out by the Duffster on national television (see the video of that encounter). Robert Asselin was a colleague of John Duffy’s in StrategyCorp and formerly a special advisor to Paul Martin.
Robert Asselin was a lobbyist for BSEF throughout 2005.
John Duffy was a lobbyist for BSEF from 2004 until January 2007, just a few weeks ago.
What did these two Liberals do for the BSEF? They fought tooth and nail against the definition of bromines as toxic…
you quote suzuki on the john oakley show saying he didnt get corp funding but you dont give a date for that statment-
so when exactly did he say that?
the revelation of corp sponsorship is from the 2005/06 time period
is it possible he only started accepting funding aftetr he made that statement?
to fully get this story we have to know that
“To understand where all this Kyotoism came from, google Maurice Strong. A Canadian from Oak Lake Manitoba, I beleive, he is also on the Suzuki board of Directors.”
Strong’s mission in life ?? Destroy mankind’s way of life in order to save the world for .. for .. ??
Posted by: B. Hoax Aware at February 21, 2007 4:05 PM
Yup B. Hoax you got it right, good ole Maurice Strong is on The Suzuki Foundation’s Board as an
“Honorary Board Member”. Just Google David Suzuki Foundation Board of Directors.
Erwin
and Moe is here too.
http://www.trudeaucentre.ca/about-advisoryboard.html
along with Fidels buddy and the newest announced lieberal.
Maurice Strong is the Machiavelli of the Suzuki story. He has for many years been a keen proponent of the One World Government idea also known as World Federalism. His long term involvement with the United Nations has caused him to be referred to as the “father” of the Kyoto Protocol. Ironically, at the moment he’s building a car plant in China.
A lot of Strong’s philosophy came out in Tim Flannery’s book “The Weathermakers” where near the end he talks about an international commission that would control the global thermostat. Countries found to be in non compliance with carbon emissions would be invaded by a grim global police force wearing UN style berets who would then force said countries to comply. Sort of puts a whole new spin on the term “Green Berets”.