By Terry Vanderheyden
OTTAWA, February 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pseudo- scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki, known for his activism in support of world depopulation, along with Clayton Ruby, the lawyer for abortion campaigner Henry Morgentaler, are among 56 new inductees for the Order of Canada. Established in 1967, the award honours lifetime achievement in various fields such as the arts or science.
Ruby, best known as the lawyer of choice for abortionists and of the pro-abortion movement, in 2001 criticized constitutionally guaranteed funding of Catholic schools in Ontario. He was a co-spokesman for a coalition opposed to an intended Ontario tax credit for parents wishing to send their children to private schools. The group was furious that Ontario was even considering a partial tax credit for parents who send their children to private, religiously based schools.
“One wonders why the Constitution, which at the moment requires funding for Catholic schools, has to remain that way,” Ruby said. He was quoted by the Globe and Mail as saying, “What the public school system does that is irreplaceable is teach people tolerance”–‘tolerance’ now being a well-known code word for rejection and intolerance of traditional moral and social principles.
Ruby also defended former NDP MP Svend Robinson during his bid to avoid incarceration for stealing a $64,000 ring for his homosexual partner. Ruby also helped NDP MP Lorne Nystrom get an acquittal for stealing contact lens solution.
Fellow inductee, depopulation activist and Canadian broadcaster David Suzuki, in a 1999 television series titled From Naked Ape to Superspecies, hosted American ant expert Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, a fellow population control extremist, claimed that “if all humanity disappeared the rest of life would benefit enormously . . . If the ants were all to disappear, the results would be close to catastrophic.” Wilson added that if humans disappeared, “the forests would grow back, the whole Earth would green up, the ocean would teem, and so on.”
National Post columnist Terence Corcoran highlighted that Suzuki’s choice of guests on his former CBC program, The Nature of Things, were often depopulation fanatics like him. “That humans are a curse on earth is a theme Mr. Suzuki has been articulating for more than two decades as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.‘s resident scientist and ecological gloomster,” Corcoran wrote. After describing Suzuki’s guest Wilson, Corcoran added, “A little later in the first part of Superspecies another expert arrives to declare that ‘earthworms are king. This is where the action is.’”
“Earthworms. Ants. Trees. Elephants. In the Suzuki world view, any species is better than the human species, and any talking head who will confirm that world view is guaranteed five minutes of air time in the great, rambling, irrational narratives that make up a typical Suzukian documentary,” Corcoran opined.
Spouting debunked theories of a lack of resources to handle the planet’s population, Suzuki claimed in the Langara College newspaper, The Gleaner, that “There’s gonna have to be a massive die-off of some sort – starvation, war, it doesn’t matter.” LifeSite reported later that Suzuki said on one of his programs “human beings are a cancerous superspecies created by Newtonian science.”
Suzuki’s Nature of Things lauded the use of brain tissue from aborted babies as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Suzuki also appeared nude on the cover of a TV guide magazine to promote an upcoming show on the “penis.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Abortionists’ Favourite Lawyer Wants End Of Catholic School Funding
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/may/01052502.html
David Suzuki’s gloomy world of nothingness
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/991215a.html
Population Control Fanatic Advocates “Voluntary Human Extinction” as Means to “Green” the Planet
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/nov/05111606.html