An environmental group is looking for $5 million from the federal and Ontario governments to help fund a $10-million campaign to plant two million trees -- including thousands along Canada’s Highway of Heroes.
Jeremiah Rodriguez, CTVNews.ca StaffIf campaigners get their way, by 2022, you can expect to see thousands of new trees lining Canada’s Highway of Heroes –a stretch of Ontario’s Highway 401 where the caskets of fallen soldiers are transported as they’re repatriated to Canada.--which aims to plant two million tree saplings across Canada -- is looking for $3 million from the federal government and $2 million from Ontario to accomplish their goal.
“We need more money from the federal government to get the job done,” the campaign’s chairman and co-founder Mark Cullen told CTV Your Morning Friday. “It’s very much a living memorial. It’s going to last hundreds and hundreds of years.” Since the campaign’s first trees were planted in 2017, around 30,000 have already been placed. But the campaign still aims to plant another 80,000 including 24,000 more in 2019.
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