Canada nowhere near target of planting 2B trees by 2030
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 20 Apr, 2023 10:15 AM
Canada's environment commissioner says the country is nowhere near to meeting its goal of planting two-billion trees by 2030.
The Liberals first made the massive tree-planting promise during the 2019 federal election campaign and followed through with a 10-year 3.2-billion-dollar budget for it in 2020.
However, an audit of the first two years of planting says it appears the government isn't on track to get even four per cent of the promised trees in the ground by the end of 2030.
The RCMP says despite providing life-saving measures, one of the wounded men died at the scene. Police say the two other victims were taken to hospital suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Real gross domestic product was unchanged in May after a 0.3 per cent expansion in April, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Growth in services-producing industries was offset by a decline in goods-producing industries, the federal agency said.
Social Development Minister Karina Gould says depending on when the person plans to travel, the application will either be expedited and their passport mailed to them, or their file will be transferred to a local office for printing and pickup.
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