http://opinion.financialpost.com/20...levant/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Mr. Levant, whose persona might be described as somewhere between a steam roller, a legal pitbull and a right-wing Jon Stewart, has been a relentless critic of Mr. Suzuki, from the fruit fly geneticist’s requests for female “bodyguards” on speaking engagements to his recent controversial trip to Australia.
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Mr. Suzuki, a man who glorifies impoverished dictatorships such as Cuba and Bhutan, wants to adopt the anti-economic policies of basket cases such as Bolivia and Ecuador, and suggests that rocks and water have equal rights with people.
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During that trip to Australia, Mr. Suzuki not only accused the new Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, of “criminal negligence” for scrapping the country’s carbon tax, but repeated the claim that the government of Stephen Harper might be building prisons to lock up “eco terrorists,” a claim Justice Minister Peter McKay dubbed — perhaps unnecessarily — “absurd.”
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One reason for the refusal became obvious when — during a televised interview on that Australian tour — Mr. Suzuki revealed that he didn’t have a clue about the sources of the “official” global temperature statistics. He was also forced to back down on his outrageous claims against genetically-modified foods.
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Some excerpts below:
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Mr. Levant, whose persona might be described as somewhere between a steam roller, a legal pitbull and a right-wing Jon Stewart, has been a relentless critic of Mr. Suzuki, from the fruit fly geneticist’s requests for female “bodyguards” on speaking engagements to his recent controversial trip to Australia.
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Mr. Suzuki, a man who glorifies impoverished dictatorships such as Cuba and Bhutan, wants to adopt the anti-economic policies of basket cases such as Bolivia and Ecuador, and suggests that rocks and water have equal rights with people.
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During that trip to Australia, Mr. Suzuki not only accused the new Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, of “criminal negligence” for scrapping the country’s carbon tax, but repeated the claim that the government of Stephen Harper might be building prisons to lock up “eco terrorists,” a claim Justice Minister Peter McKay dubbed — perhaps unnecessarily — “absurd.”
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One reason for the refusal became obvious when — during a televised interview on that Australian tour — Mr. Suzuki revealed that he didn’t have a clue about the sources of the “official” global temperature statistics. He was also forced to back down on his outrageous claims against genetically-modified foods.
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