David Suzuki's Contribution To Canada

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Canada has a relatively short history at about 150 years but it does cultivate many people that had great contributions to the country and the world. John A. Macdonald is the first prime minster of Canada and a truly funding father of this country. Ellen Louks Fairclough, the first woman who had served in the Canadian cabinet, as a member of parliament, she advocated women's rights including equal pay for equal work. David Suzuki is the best-known environmentalist in Canada; he organized the David Suzuki Foundation, which has the mission to protect the diversity of nature and humanity’s quality of life, now and for the indefinite future. All of them have irreplaceable identities, both nationally and internationally.
John Alexander Macdonald, born 11 Jan 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland and died 6 June 1891 in Ottawa, is a successful lawyer, businessman
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He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago. Then he had an interest in genetics, which he researched and taught at the University of British Columbia until he retired in 2001. Since 2001, he has been concentrating primarily on his foundation and climate change activism. In recent years, Suzuki has more focus on climate change and global warming, and he is trying to press the Canadian Government to take proper steps toward protecting the Canadian environment and climate. He is also known for his support of Canada's First Nations' rights over natural resources and has been adopted by three tribes and made an honorary chieftain of one. He has been published 52 books and has a great influence by broadcasting. Furthermore, through his books and broadcasts, which have touched millions of people around the world. For the past 20 years, he has been informing the world about the grave threat to humanity of climate change and about how it can be

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