David Suzuki to Dion,

The online and blogging community had a field day tearing down Stephane Dion for failing to cite the David Suzuki Foundation report The Air We Breathe as source for his environmental platform, accusing the liberal leadership hopeful of plagiarism, unoriginality and deceit. It turns out the only people who cared were those making the allegations. David Suzuki certainly doesn't.

In his weekly Science Matters column, the acclaimed environmentalist and scientist puts forward an open call for the general use of his foundation's research. Says Suzuki, "To all politicians looking for ways to reduce our footprint on nature: Knock yourselves out. Feel free to steal, pilfer, borrow, rent, filch or otherwise take any research my foundation does and put it to good use."