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A heated phone call with Justin Trudeau led to David Suzuki calling the Liberal leader a “twerp” and Trudeau labelling environmentalist’s views as “sanctimonious crap,” Suzuki said Friday.

In an interview with Evan Solomon on the former CBC host’s new radio show, Everything Is Political: Campaign 2015, Suzuki said Trudeau called to speak about the Liberals’ climate change policy before it was released.

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“I didn’t call Justin, he called me,” Suzuki said. “He wanted an endorsement and he wanted to tell me exactly what his program was.”

Suzuki took issue with some of the projects the Liberal leader has supported in the past.

“I said ‘Justin, stop it,'” Suzuki told Solomon. “‘You’re just being political. I know that you want to make headway in Alberta so you’re for the continued development of the tar sands, you’re for the Keystone pipeline, but you’re against the Northern Gateway. You’re all over the damn map!'”