Ezra Levant, radical right wing publisher and political strategist speaking at the auspicious Vancouver Club at an event hosted by Leah Costello a fellow of The Fraser Institute.
Ben West from the Wilderness Committee attended and brought his iPhone to obtain footage of Ezra admitting that he is a climate change denier. In his book he claims to take environmental concerns including climate change into consideration.
Ezra (a former debate club geek) is deploying the classic technique of using your opponents arguments against them. He started his talk off by saying this book was fun because he "got to pretend he was a liberal".
Ben West (also a debate club geek) goes for the classic reversal by using conservative framing for his question.
Ezra didn't openly deny climate change during his talk, in fact he talked about C02 emissions as if they are a serious threat. But while signing Bens copy of the book Ezra denied that human activity is causing climate change. Ben captured the audio of this discussion as well as a photo with Ezra holding a pin that says "Global warming is caused by the sun".
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