Here was a man that many Canadians grew to admire and trust as a scientist being extremely unscientific to a simple question that had merit and deserved a rational response. His response was anything but rational and I haven't trusted a word out of his mouth since. As a Canadian, I am embarassed by Dr. Suzuki, he is a hypocrite of the highest order. He should be stripped of his Order of Canada. He looked up and said, "book?" I said I didn't have one but I wanted to ask him a question. He said, "I don't have time for that," and waved me away like a king dismissing a commoner. It is time like these that I really admire and appreciate Christopher Hitchens as a public intellectual. He would always have time for anyone as long as there is a promise of food, drink, smoke and talk. Why do we have so few intellectual celebrities like Hitchens? David Suzuki came to New Zealand a couple of months ago and got interviewed on our State TV channel. Honestly, he came across a a complete enviro. nutter. The interviewer, Mark Sainsbury (who doesn't have a reutation for asking hard questions) eventually started to take the piss out of him. I had never heard of him before that moment and after the interview thought oh dear and promptly forgot be even existed, until now. One of the most important things that you have to teach to your students, and sons and daughters,