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David Suzuki has said a lot of offensive, wacky, inaccurate and damaging things over the years while speaking on the record and for publication.

These are not slips of the tongue, as his devoted followers sometimes try to claim. Suzuki, the decades-long star behind The Nature of Things, is extremely media savvy.

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During debate in the legislature Monday, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney summed up some of the wackier statements Suzuki has uttered.

“We all recognize that the senate of the University of Alberta is independent in its decisions to grant honorary degrees,” said Kenney, regarding the controversial decision that has led to a NoSuzuki.ca petition that has garnered more than 22,000 signatures and prompted many donors to rescind substantial monetary pledges to the university.

“But,” continued Kenney, “I would like to know if the government would join with the official Opposition and a growing number of Albertans in expressing concern about the honour being granted to Dr. David Suzuki, who says that human beings are an invasive species, that immigration is disgusting and crazy and should be stopped, who says that the oilsands are the moral equivalent of slavery, who says that economics is the product of brain damage, and who says that Alberta’s major employer should beshut down immediately.