HONOURING THE GREEN PHONY

   Since University of Alberta president David Turpin is righteously wrapping himself in the cloak of defending free speech to explain its controversial decision to give an honorary degree to David Suzuki, it begs an obvious question.
    How does giving an award to a poster child of the intolerant left defend free speech, “the principles of freedom of inquiry, academic integrity and independence,” as Turpin described them in an Edmonton Journal column?
    When former prime minister Stephen Harper and Alberta premier Ed Stelmach were in government, Suzuki urged a McGill University audience, “to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing (failing to act on anthropogenic climate change) is a criminal act.”