Feds to plant trees around the city
More than 275,000 trees will be planted in and around Montreal via the largesse of federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault.
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Chris 19:51 on 2023-05-10 Permalink
0.01375% of the 2 billion trees Trudeau promised! Talk about largesse!
Kate 20:13 on 2023-05-10 Permalink
Better than none.
Chris 20:23 on 2023-05-10 Permalink
Yup. But only by the tiniest of fractions.
dhomas 02:53 on 2023-05-11 Permalink
https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/2-billion-trees.html
2 billion trees over 10 years. Not only in Montreal, but Canada-wide. Before stating that it’s only less than 1% of the promised trees, we should probably get numbers from the whole of the project, ya?
saintjacques 08:35 on 2023-05-11 Permalink
The Globe and Mail actually had a very recent podcast episode on this very topic of the two billion trees. TL;DR: like so many promises made by political parties, it’s easy to promise, harder to implement. But there’s nuance, it’s not black-and-white, because the world is messy.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-the-missing-two-billion-trees-trudeau-promised/
Jonathan 09:34 on 2023-05-11 Permalink
There’s definitely more to come about this program 😉
Chris 10:14 on 2023-05-11 Permalink
>Before stating that it’s only less than 1% of the promised trees…
It’s 100 times less that 1%!
>…we should probably get numbers from the whole of the project, ya?
Yes, let’s. 2 years after making their promise, they’ve planted 0.4% of what they promised. In all of Canada. If they continue that linearly, they’ll reach 2% at the 10 year mark. If they do 10x better, they’ll reach 20%.
You know canada.ca is the government, right? Maybe read from someplace else? National Post, CBC, Globe and Mail: they all agree, the project is lightyears behind.
Anyway, it was Kate’s use of the word “largesse” that made me almost fall of my chair laughing. Paying for 0.01375% of an already-made, years old, election promise doesn’t reach the bar in my books.
Kate 12:02 on 2023-05-11 Permalink
Chris, do you honestly think I’d use the word “largesse” non-ironically?