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The President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada believes the industry has been a leader throughout the pandemic.
Derek Nighbor says they have faced their fair share of challenges like everyone else, but suggests that they have prevailed.
“Really proud of how our workers have stepped up. How we’ve kept workers safe and we’ve kept our supply chain moving. Forestry is really one of the bright lights in this economy. We’re one of the few sectors that has been able to push through and keep most of our people working.”
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Conservative MP Dan Albas speaks in Ottawa, Tuesday December 8, 2020. Just how many of the two billion trees the Liberals promised to plant in the 2019 election will go into the ground this year will be released soon, says Natural Resources Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld April 30, 2021 - 1:00 AM
OTTAWA - The Conservatives environment critic says almost two years after promising to plant two billion trees within a decade, the Liberals have provided little in the way of detail on how that will actually get done.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in the 2019 campaign as part of his climate platform to plant two billion trees by 2030, which amounts to an extra 200 million trees per year.
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OTTAWA The Conservatives’ environment critic says almost two years after promising to plant two billion trees within a decade, the Liberals have provided little in the way of detail on how that will actually get done.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in the 2019 campaign as part of his climate platform to plant two billion trees by 2030, which amounts to an extra 200 million trees per year.
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To reach that goal over a decade, around 33 million trees would have to go into the ground each month in a tree-planting season and in nine years that number grows to about 37 million trees.
Conservative MP Dan Albas speaks in Ottawa, December 8, 2020. Just how many of the two billion trees the Liberals promised to plant in the 2019 election will go into the ground will be released soon. Photo by The Canadian Press:Adrian Wyld
OTTAWA The Conservatives environment critic says almost two years after promising to plant two billion trees within a decade, the Liberals have provided little in the way of detail on how that will actually get done.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in the 2019 campaign as part of his climate platform to plant two billion trees by 2030, which amounts to an extra 200 million trees per year.