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The David Suzuki Foundation has tax free status as a registered charity.  This tax free status remains provided that he does not endorse a specific party or candidate.  From the Canada Revenue Agency:

A registered charity cannot be created for a political purpose and cannot be involved in partisan political activities. A political activity is considered partisan if it involves direct or indirect support of, or opposition to, a political party or candidate for public office.

From Kingston this Week:

“One of the most frustrating things that we have now is that the environment itself seems to be a political football. So, if you care about the environment, then you should vote Green. If you don’t care about the environment, then vote conservative, and then there’s the in between,” Suzuki said.

“Well, I told Elizabeth May, the head of the Green Party, that I cannot wait until there’s no Green Party. I cannot wait until I stop having to go to places to celebrate the opening of things like this,” he continued, “because this should be the only way that we do things. We need to be at a point where the values that are talked about by the Green Party are all values that Canadians have.”