La Presse (in French, this is the Google translation);
How many trees have we planted so far out of the two billion pledged by 2030? The government of Justin Trudeau took several days to answer the question, but this delay can not be justified by the complexity of the count: to date, there are zero.
The engagement was announced just under a year ago, as the election campaign was in full swing. “We’re going to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Full stop,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter on September 27, the same day he met young environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
According to this plan, 200 million trees should have taken root each year, or 547,945 on a daily basis, from September 2019. By removing one year from the ten-year plan, we are now talking about more than 222 million trees per year, so 608,828 per day.
It will thus be necessary to accelerate the pace to reach the objective. “Officials are currently preparing a comprehensive plan to fulfill this commitment,” said Ian Cameron, press secretary for Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan, who is leading the case, in an email.
“Once programs are in place, planting can begin in various locations across Canada, including public forests, private lands, crown lands and urban spaces,” he added, noting that “despite pandemic, ”Ottawa continued to engage with Indigenous peoples, provincial and territorial governments, and industry to deliver a plan.
Minister Seamus O’Regan did not make himself available to grant an interview to La Presse. Behind the scenes, we nevertheless assure that the promise still holds, and we argue that the health crisis “has turned a lot of things upside down” – an argument that the Bloc Québécois spokesperson for the environment sweeps away with a wave of the hand.
Blackie says a lot of stuff.
It is also recognized that most of what he says is bovine excrement and yet no one calls him on it. And even if makes a promise, he never provides a way to track if the result is achieved.
Justin doesn’t have to track his own election promises. That’s the job of a functioning news media. Canada certainly has a news media. Just how “functioning” it is, well, umm………..
“…That’s the job of a functioning news media. ..”
And an Opposition with balls.
Canada’s news media esp. CBC have become Blackface Shiny Pony Soldiers.
So is that on top of the 218 million that BC plants every year?
and if so, where are you going to plant them?
When Justin made that pledge I wondered where he intended to plant them. Farmland?
He said forests. Because we all know how difficult it is for trees to grow naturally in a forest.
Under all the solar panels he wants build.
When I renovate my homes, I also re-do the landscaping, which involves planting trees and shrubs – people love a beautiful, low maintenance yard. To date, I have planted 12 trees over the last 37 years. I also have paid tree surgeons to maintain beautiful 100 year old oaks and maples.
So by the article’s admission that “zero” trees have been planted by the government of Canada, I am way ahead of them in saving the planet.
I’ve thrown out multiple apple cores over the last 50+ years…pretty sure I’m well ahead of the government as well.
Momma.
As a retired Fire fighter. We try to warn folks about planting trees near your home for two reasons.
(1) fire issues
(2) high winds and falling trees, or fire again.
Here in WA state. I’ve seen plenty of this year after year. (-:
And if they’re too close,even small ornamental trees can roots under your foundations and crack them.
The Prairies, of course.
Well, so far they have delivered on the Full Stop part.
Canada already has far too many trees, especially around our cities and towns. As I write an orange sun is visible through the smoke from burning trees in the US. I say cut them down.
Unless the feds have a secret seed supply and orders into nurseries, the start-up lag, even if they could find places to plant them, is a year or two away unless, they want to claim responsibility for what the provinces do already. I suspect it was just the Spawn parroting what Butts was whispering into his ear bud with zero comprehension beyond thirty seconds.
And in that same time how many trees were replanted by provincial governments, tree harvesters and private groups and individuals ? I don’t know the number but I do know that it is millions more then the great and mighty green loving Blackie Sock Puppet.
Is the Liberal gov’t planning on re-opening PFRA in Saskatchewan?
Could plant a lot of trees for the money the gov’t gives to foreign countries. No, I don’t care what happens in most of those foreign countries, normally I wish that most would just go away.
I planted 20 trees this spring. The deer managed to destroy about 10 of them.
Will replace the 10 this fall and build better fences ….
Talk is cheap – hope the PM grabs a shovel … Actions speak louder than words.
I thought he was already shoveling it on plenty thick.
There are more trees growing in Canada now than there were in the 19th century.
The plains bison kept them eaten and trodden down. The tree line used to go further north of Edmonton. Now it’s halfway between Red Deer and Calgary. Good thing those Europeans decimated the bison.
On another note. Lodge pole pines need fire in order for their pine cones to break up and release the seeds. Tell a liberal that forest fires are a perfectly natural phenomenon. Their heads explode.
When a liberal says some phenomena is proof of climate change, I tell them I saw a dog urinating on a tree.
Actually, Lodgepole pine cones will open and release seed from the heat of the sun on the slash in a clear-cut. Fire isn’t required. Historically, most lodgepole pine stands originated from fire.
Which tree is the magic money tree?
I remember once when the City of Toronto working with a developer (obviously for a cut of the taxpayer’s geedus), promised to build something like 1,000 social housing units over 10 years.
So, yeah, when you do the math, 100 a year…you’d think somebody would have checked after say, one year. Maybe two? At the most…three, just to see how many of those 300 were built.
Nope.
Waited until the “deadline” when there was under 100 built. Oops.
They honestly think people aren’t going to look into this stuff.
Unfortunately, its never the bought and paid for MSM who can give you a count to the tens column as to how many viewers/readers they’ve lost and how much taxpayer’s dough they should get…but can’t do basic accounting (even if they wanted to. Which they don’t).
probably the same building where the city councilor got a prime 3 bedroom corner unit at cost in exchange for a variance?
Those things kind of grow on their own, you know, produce seeds, drop them then the root and grow as long as the government doesn’t burn them down with moronic terminally stupid policies. My long deceased father-in-law and I planted thousands of saplings on a property he owned 50 years ago. The place is now a forest. He paid for them.
Funny thing … the “green” biomass pellet fuel power generating plants in the UK … consume exactly 2 Billion Virgin Canadian trees every 10 years. Earth in balance … eh, Al Gore?
I have a funny story about planting trees.
As a kid born and raised in Southern Calif. They had this great idea.
I guess they wanted to be like back east. So as new homes were built. Trees were planted next to the sidewalks.
After 20 years, issues began to show up. First of all California has what I would say worthless soil, like rocks and clay.
No fun to dig in. So it wasn’t long before the concrete sidewalks began to lift up because the roots couldn’t beat the hard ground. The city I lived in had to grind down the concrete or remove it because people were tripping as the walked. The tress are still there and the sidewalks are a mess.
I love tress, but use some common sense.
” … use some common sense … ”
– snorf. snurk. AAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Can anybody remember the details on what Natural Resources did to the Boy Scouts several years ago? The Scouts spent big bux of their own money saving the Earth by planting (if memory serves) 35,000 trees somewhere on the prairies. They were walking away, wiping the dirt off their hands and feeling good about themselves, when Natural Resources showed-up, told them they’d planted non-typical trees on a patch of what was “high prairie grasslands” – and they were going to have to pick up their shovels again, go back in and dig all the trees they’d planted back up and cart them away.
The City of Regina, like many Prairie cities, planted thousands of elms on city streets. Fast growing. But try walking on the sidewalks, the trees have grown do big that the sidewalks are death traps for anyone walking in the dark
Canada has an estimated 318 billion trees in its forests. Planting two billion increases the count by 0.63%. Going to have to do better than that.
Math is hard. Two billion sounds like so many…..
They will probably use the Covid wu flu as the excuse, as just about every other entity is doing as well. The reality is that it was a political promise that was just being used to gain a win in the election, a promise unfulfilled by a politician is not exactly a revelation either, but a small chunk of mud that can be swung back at them from time to time, just to remind them that some remember their lies.
Shhhhhh!
Probably better to leave turdo’s promise as a forgotten lie. Imagine the price per sapling by the time his bureaucrats and crooked friends got 2 billion in the ground.
So what was his reasoning(yeah I know) because Canada is well forested already. Logging has legal requirements to replant within a year most places and a lot of other places where trees aren’t is because houses and buildings are sitting there. And city parks and roads.
His reasoning?
Just the knowledge that a useless green promise would resonate with a useless green urban electorate.
Does it still count if you also burn them down?
That’s roughly 2 square miles a day with spplaings 10 foot apart
I don’t know squat about tree planting, but 608,828 per day sounds like it’s beyond physically plausible. How may trees can one arborist plant in a day, reasonably? Does anyone know?
Planting crews (in clear cuts) can average around a thousand plus seedlings per day each of container stock (small root wad shaped like a sausage) and around 500 naked root stock (larger seedlings transplanted from a nursery) / day each.
I’ll sum things up: PM Dickspank is a liar.
Now we know what all those “Volunteers” that WE was recruiting were going to be doing. So with that being said, the reason the Liberal Government is behind in it’s “Plant A Tree For Greta” campaign is because Canadaland and the Conservatives killed this important program.
If you include the acorns and other nuts/seeds planted by squirrels, then Justin’s promise has been kept. It all depends on how you define WE.
The staggering inability of progressives to perform basic arithmetic is (a) how we got to our current fiscal straits, and (b) why sockboy thinks you can power a first-world economy in the coldest and second-largest country on Earth with fragile and grossly inefficient wind turbines (and anyone who thinks you can do it with solar photovoltaic panels had better look up the insolation data for Canada).
Get ready for the Green Terror. I’d tell my fellow Canadians to hold onto their socks, but they’re not going to need them when they’re pedalling their Fred Flinstone four-doors down the 401.
– Not a problem, DN; Little Potato’s daddy put finis to any chance of Canada being mistaken for a “first-world economy”.
Wonder if Blackie has taken a drive across Canada and observed just how much of this country is comprised of thriving, dense forests?
0 trees.
That’s FULL STOP.
My biggest epiphany in Northern BC on a ride to Alaska was this:
OMG, the trees. THE TREES!!!!
Why are “we” worried about trees!?!?!?
Canada has lots and lots and lots of trees. Just look at the endless forests in many of the Group of Seven paintings – “Montreal River” by Lauren Harris to mention just one out of literally hundreds of examples. We don’t need more.