Alberta university criticized for plan to bestow honorary degree on David Suzuki
EDMONTON — The University of Alberta is being criticized for its decision to give David Suzuki an honorary degree.
Earlier this month, the university announced that the longtime environmentalist will be one of 13 people to receive the honour later this spring.
Andrew Leach, the architect of Alberta’s climate change plan and an economics professor at the university, isn’t pleased.
“He refers to economics as brain damage,” Leach wrote on Twitter. “The @ualberta has 3 departments teaching economics. Is that really the type of public education that my university wants to reward with an honorary degree?”