The program launched in 2021 is being dropped as part of a spending review to find billions of dollars worth of savings

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will be ending a program to plant two billion trees as part of its whole-of-government spending review to find billions of dollars worth of savings.

A senior government official confirmed that the budget to be presented on Tuesday will bring an end to the program, which was launched under former prime minister Justin Trudeau .

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The official confirmed the government’s existing contracts would be honoured. In August, Natural Resources Canada said the contracts already signed would see nearly 1 billion trees planted.

Specifically, the department said that as of June, 988 million trees had been committe

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