Never quite finished disappointing Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is failing to make good on his promise to plant two billion trees by 2030.
Justin Trudeau has planted 0.4% of the 2 billion trees he promised to plant in 2019.
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) December 13, 2021
Trudeau announced the lofty goal during his 2019 election campaign, even sending out a snarky Tweet for his fan club to fawn over.
“We’ll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That’s it. That’s the tweet,” Trudeau wrote on September 27, 2019.
We’ll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 27, 2019
Despite the blunt, unambiguous pledge to plant two billion trees, Trudeau isn’t even on track to produce a tenth of what was promised by the 2030 deadline.
According to information gathered by the Canadian Press, Trudeau has only reached the abysmal 8.5 million mark — less than half a per cent of two billion to date. And that’s over two years, assuming we start at the beginning of 2020.
Indeed, at the current sloth-like pace of Trudeau’s government, it will take approximately 470 years to fulfill his promise to Canadians. Talk about dropping the ball.
Nonetheless, Trudeau lackeys are confident in their leader’s ability.
“There will be about 30 million trees planted by the end of this year. Tree planting as part of this program will continue to ramp up,” said Joanna Sivasankaran of Natural Resources Canada.
However, the worst part about this new promise is that this goal won’t result from the Trudeau government paying Canadians to work but will be taken on by anonymous “partners” who actually care.
Moreover, even if 38.5 million is reached by the start of 2022, it will still take Trudeau just over a century to reach his goal. That’s not exactly promising, to say the least.
Green MP Mike Morrice recently chimed in, saying that Trudeau’s low achievement rate is “incredibly disappointing” and “not a complete surprise.”
“We’ve seen a pattern from this government of making grandiose promises around elections but not following through, this being the most recent example. Planting trees is one of the cheapest forms of climate action while regenerating forests can also reduce erosion,” Morrice said.
The Liberal government now says they plan on announcing a multi-million-dollar spending plan to increase tree planting and hope to reach a rate of 350 million trees planted per year. If achieved, this would represent a 4,117.65 per cent increase in efficiency. However, given the Liberals’ track record, this level of growth in efficiency is almost definitely impossible.
