Canadians know (and either love or sneer at) David Suzuki as the king of eco-living and green movement cash-flow in the land of “eh?” Americans: Think of Al Gore with the assumed credibility of the late Carl Sagan.

But Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck found a different Suzuki today. And he smells like diesel fumes:

I notice David Suzuki himself didn’t “walk the talk” when he did his 40-city, rock star tour of Canada last year.

Remember that one? The chief frog counter driving all over hell’s half-acres in his own private diesel tour bus?

That’s right. Not a train or a hybrid vehicle as his foundation wants everybody else to travel in.

A bus. A diesel bus with a bunch of crew members on board. Not a bio-diesel bus, either. Straight up diesel — no ice …

If politicians should take trains and hybrid vehicles on their tours, why didn’t Suzuki do it on his tour?

Because he’s a hypocrite, that’s why.

If he had set an example by using wagons and rickshaws during his dog-and-pony road show, he’d be in a position to do some lecturing.

But he’s not.

Oh, but he was carbon neutral during that tour, his excited little surrogates exclaim. He offset his carbon emissions with carbon credits. You know, when you invest enough money into methane capturing devices in Bangladesh garbage dumps to supposedly offset your emissions here? … It’s like they never polluted at all.

On Suzuki’s “please give us your Loonies and Twonies” web page, he waxes on about how his foundation is “looking for the underlying root causes of our destructiveness so that we can find genuine solutions toward sustainability.

Uh-huh.