Canadian Club Toronto is pleased to welcome Dr. David Suzuki for a special luncheon celebrating his 90th birthday and presenting him, alongside Dr. Tara Cullis, with the Canadian Club Toronto Lifetime Achievement Award.
As markets respond to climate volatility, regulatory evolution and shifting global expectations, Canadian business leaders are reassessing long-term risk and institutional responsibility. At 90, Dr. Suzuki brings decades of scientific insight and public leadership to a strategic conversation about economic resilience, stewardship and cross-sector collaboration.
Over a lifetime of distinguished service, David Suzuki has strengthened Canada’s global reputation, advanced science-based policy and directly improved the lives of Canadians through education and environmental leadership. Together with Tara Cullis, he co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation, building practical, community-driven solutions that intersect with economic and civic priorities across the country.
This luncheon will focus on the role of business and finance in shaping Canada’s next chapter. How should institutions think about long-term environmental risk? Where does Canada hold strategic advantage in the transition ahead? And how can collaboration between business, communities and policymakers strengthen national competitiveness and mitigate risk?
Join us as we honour two distinguished Canadians and engage in a timely conversation about leadership at a defining moment for our economy.
*For virtual attendees, please note that the live stream will begin at approximately 12:40 pm ET & the link will be provided closer to the event date*
Dr. David Suzuki
Grandfather, Award-Winning Scientist, Environmental Activist, Broadcaster
David Suzuki has made it his life’s work to help humanity understand, appreciate, respect and protect nature. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things (1979-2023). David was the recipient of The Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. David has been recognized by BC Achievement in partnership with the Lieutenant Governor of BC for his extraordinary work as a recipient of the 2021 BC Reconciliation Award. Dr. Suzuki is a Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and UNEP’s Global 500. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and has been honoured with 33 honorary degrees from universities in Canada, United States and Australia. His written work includes more than 55 books, 20 of them for children.
Dr. Tara Cullis
Award-winning Author, Activist, President of the David Suzuki Foundation
An award-winning writer, Tara Cullis has been a key player in environmental movements in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, Japan and British Columbia.
Dr. Cullis earned her PhD in Comparative Literature, her thesis defining the rupture between science and society characteristic of Twentieth Century German, French and English Literature.
On graduation she joined the faculty of Harvard University, teaching non-fiction writing. After five years she resigned to cofound, with David Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation “to collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life, to conserve our environment, and to find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education and policy work.”
Tara founded or co-founded nine other organizations before The David Suzuki Foundation. She was also a founder of the Turning Point Initiative, now known as the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, which brought First Nations of British Columbia’s central and northern coasts into an historic alliance, protecting the ecology of the region known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
Tara has been adopted and named by the Haida, Gitga’at, Heiltsuk and Nam’gis First Nations.
