Environment committee  I think it's critically important, and I'm going to use an example from my area, from Winnipeg. You're probably familiar with The Forks and you're probably all familiar with the human rights museum that's going up on The Forks. There was a great plan for somebody to build some s

Environment committee  I have one. I'm not sure that it's anything the federal government can do. Somehow we need to educate developers, engineers, architects, and contractors about how trees grow. They have a vision that the roots go straight down. You will often see trees with these nice little boa

Environment committee  It's an easy step, just into the garden.

Environment committee  I always say that gardening is what made me recover from politics. It really does have a huge psychological benefit. When you go outside and you're in your garden, you're in that green space and you lose all sense of time, whether you're gardening, just cutting the grass, or what

Environment committee  I made some comments about that in my initial remarks, but I think we know both instinctively and empirically that trees make a huge difference to the value of individual properties. It is much more difficult to quanitfy. I've done some research in this area in making presentatio

Environment committee  I have one comment to add. This really does have a bearing on what the federal government can do. In the infrastructure agreements signed from time to time, trees are not mentioned. It's always about the cement, the sidewalks, the bridges, and the roads. It takes an awful lot lon

Environment committee  By the way, thank you for your comments.

Environment committee  That brings up the question: why is this important and what do trees do? I like to refer to them as trees, rather than the urban forest, because that brings it right home. It's something you know. Why are trees important to our environment? Well, it's pretty simple. First of al