Canada’s most famous environmentalist, David Suzuki, says he left the board of his charitable foundation to avoid being a lightning rod for criticism and government attacks that would undermine its work.
Still, Peter Robinson, who is the head of the David Suzuki Foundation, said the group is facing a “chill” that is leading it to pull back from important environmental debates lest it be accused by the federal government of exceeding its charitable mandate.
Is Suzuki a new, very high-profile casualty in the asymmetrical Harpercon war on non-profit environmental advocacy orgs?
In fact, Suzuki’s departure from the foundation that bears his name had nothing to do with the federal government’s latest attack on charities opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline. How do I know this? It happened during the summer of 2011.
Oops. Not so fresh a scoop, izzit?
Look, I’m sure there will be many more prominent resignations from charitable green outfits to come in the near future; reanimating out of context zombie #elxn41 controversies is stupid.
bastard.logic 
Good to point this out. However, it really doesn’t diminish Suzuki’s announcement or the timing of it in my mind. Why should DS not engage in spin and sensationalism when the forces of our fearless leader are in fact trying to marginalize and demonize him and the entire environmental movement. He has proven his bona fides from the movement’s early days. I know the media won’t cut him any slack on this, but they’ll all broil and rot along with the rest of us in the coming days of what I like to call Coffin Earth.
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