Editing David Suzuki (section)

===Canadian justice system===
While being interviewed by [[Tony Jones (news journalist)|Tony Jones]] on Australia's ABC TV network in September 2013, Suzuki repeated the claim from Canadian media that the [[Premiership of Stephen Harper|Harper government]] was building prisons even though [[Crime in Canada#Statistics Canada data|crime rates were declining]] in Canada.<ref name="An Audience With David Suzuki">{{cite web
| title = An Audience With David Suzuki
| url = http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3841115.htm
| work = ABC Q&A
| access-date = 2018-04-06
| date=2013-09-23}}</ref><ref name="Toronto Star">{{cite news
| title = Critics say Harper government throwing prison expansion money away
| url = https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/01/10/critics_say_harper_government_throwing_prison_expansion_money_away.html
| work = Toronto Star
| access-date = 2013-12-02
| date=2011-01-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Canada's crime rate: Two decades of decline
| url = http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2015001-eng.htm
| work = Statistics Canada
| access-date = 2018-04-06
| date=2017-03-03}}</ref>
He suggested that the prisons might be being built so that [[Stephen Harper]] can incarcerate environmental activists.<ref name="An Audience With David Suzuki" /><ref name="torontosun.com">{{cite news
| title = Suzuki: Harper is building prisons for eco-activists
| url = http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/25/suzuki-harper-is-building-prisons-for-eco-activists
| newspaper = Toronto Sun
| access-date = 2013-10-04 }}</ref> Jean-Christophe De Le Rue, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister [[Steven Blaney]], denied the claims, emphasizing that the Canadian government is not building any prisons, nor do they have plans to build any.<ref name="torontosun.com" /> However, in 2011, the Harper government did announce a 5-year, "$2-billion federal prison-building boom" to add "over 2,700 beds to men's and women's prisons across Canada" with $517-million already "spent on prison construction" in 2010–2011.<ref name="Toronto Star" /><ref>{{cite news
| title = Harper government to announce more prison expansions
| url = http://www.ipolitics.ca/2011/01/10/harper-government-to-announce-more-prison-expansions/
| work = iPolitics.ca
| access-date = 2013-12-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| title = Prison costs soar 86% in past five years: report
| url = https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/prison-costs-soar-86-in-past-five-years
| work = National Post
| access-date = 2022-12-12 }}</ref>