David Suzuki is considered a great Canadian Leader. Suzuki is a geneticist, an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He has won many awards such as the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, the International Human Rights Award and he owns a TV show called The Nature of Things. David is now a professor at the University of British Columbia, the province where he was born, and kicked out as a child. David Suzuki is an ambitious, respectful and patriotic person.

David Suzuki is an ambitious person because he desires that people will change the environment to make it healthy. David wants the world, and the environment to be healthy for the new generation of people, to experience the world as it is now. Suzuki has …show more content…
Suzuki is a respectful person because he respects the environment. He has organized many protests to save the environment from being destroyed. Before, David Suzuki has helped a man stop a dam, Site C, from being built at Peace River Valley. The company of Site C is trying to build the Dam again, so David is going to help stop it. (davidsuzuki.org/blogs/panther-lounge/2014/12/site-c-approval-is-the-wrong-decision-for-bc/) David says the company of the dam, is breaking treaty 8, which guarantees First Nations the right to hunt and fish “for as long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and the grass grows,” for the Aboriginals. David has been to Peace River Valley where he said it was a beautiful river to canoe and look around, but they are going trying to build a dam on the river, which enraged him a lot. People respect Mr. Suzuki because he respects the environment and everyone. People, who love the environment, love the way David is trying the best he can to save the environment. Every time if anyone asks David when there is a problem about the environment, it would be his first priority. He will protest and do as best as he could to stop the problem. Mr. Suzuki is a respectful person because he protests against people who want to destroy the …show more content…
In 1942, the Japanese Canadians including David and his family were despised because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. David and his family were forced to stay in a ghost town in the mountains called Slocan City (Suzuki, 11-19). Slocan City was an old mining town where buildings were rotting, the houses were very dirty, and many houses had glassless windows. When David went to school in Slocan, many Japanese kids beat him up, because all of the kids did not like Canada except Suzuki. Later on in the year 1945, when the war against Japan was over, many Canadians had celebrated the victory against Japan. David wanted to celebrate too, because he loved Canada, but a big boy kicked David as hard as he could and shouted “Get lost, Jap. We beat you!” After the War, British Columbia did not want to keep the Japanese anymore, so they gave them two choices. They could get a ticket to Japan, or move somewhere else in Canada. David and his family loved Canada so much, that they stayed in Canada instead of moving to Japan. Even though David was treated horribly by the Canadian government, the Japanese kids at his school by many Canadians, and was given a chance to move to Japan, David still loved his country and stayed in