IRONY: Oil and gas advocates launch 'greenwashing' complaint against David Suzuki Foundation
Oil and gas advocates are now using the Competition Bureau, previously weaponized against them.
Canadians have launched a Competition Bureau complaint against the David Suzuki Foundation for using misleading imagery in anti-natural gas campaigns.
The complaint, filed by eight B.C. residents, alleges the foundation repeatedly uses a two-decade-old aerial photo of Wyoming gas wells to misrepresent current development in B.C.'s Montney Formation, a major Canadian gas-producing region.
Sheila Gunn Reid and Drea Humphrey criticize Suzuki's long-standing opposition to oil and gas, his honorary degree from the University of Alberta, and his environmental hypocrisy and misinformation.
They highlight the ironic turn of events, with pro-oil and gas advocates now using the Competition Bureau, previously weaponized against them.
The imagery in question allegedly violates Section 74.01(1) of the Competition Act. The Foundation admits the photo in question is not from British Columbia, which federal legislation C-59 contests as "greenwashing."
Though intended for heavy industry, the greenwashing rules now cover all businesses, including non-profit fundraising and foreign businesses "marketing in Canada."

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COMMENTS
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-07-07 20:41:27 -0400Suzuki’s been a CBC deadbeat and freeloader for most of his life. He hosted “Suzuki on Science” on CBC TV in the early 1970s, and he dressed like an anti-establishment hippy on screen. Much of his commentary was anti-American in keeping with that sentiment being openly encouraged by PET.
Shortly after that, his next CBC gig was as the host of “Quirks and Quarks” on radio. Again, it was more about him than actual science. He had some very questionable segments (such as one laden with profanity, using those swear words as an example of language or some such thing), though he did get a comeuppance of sort when he unwittingly became the subject of an April Fool’s joke when the show aired on April 1.
His departure for “The Nature of Things” was no great loss and Q & Q improved after Jay Ingram took over as host. (I stopped listening when the show became more like “Climate Change and Climate Change”.) -
Robert Pariseau commented 2025-07-06 21:37:04 -0400The Nature of Things, indeed.
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-07-06 21:36:48 -0400British Columbia of all locations?