<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">Good afternoon, </span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">I am writing to let you know about the latest actions by a coalition of 4 groups in Ottawa around a continued strong desire to see a centenary elm tree on Parliament Hill celebrated and preserved. This is an urban tree of great significance. </span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">Today's advocacy onslaught consists of</span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">* a new<span> </span><a href="http://greenspace-alliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PRESS-RELEASE-final-March-5.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(22, 108, 197);">press release</a>.</span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">* a<span> </span><a href="http://greenspace-alliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Letter-to-Parliamentarians-final.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(22, 108, 197);">letter</a><span> </span>to members of a House of Commons Committee, and the Speakers of House and Senate,</span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">* an update to our<span> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2tNqcTY" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(22, 108, 197);">online petition</a>, launched in early February. It now has 225 signatures.<span> </span>We're hoping this push today will get signatures up to 500. </span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">Your support is welcome: it's as simple as forwarding the petition link to colleagues, friends and family across Canada.</span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><b>On a related topic: </b> I'd like to know how many people on this listserv would be interested in having a national listserv for advocacy issues around trees? Please write to me directly if you're interested in pursuing this. I've been talking with folks on Vancouver Island who floated the idea. I think it's a good idea. If enough people are interested, we can perhaps make it happen. </span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(29, 33, 41)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">best wishes, Debra</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig66169632"><pre style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;" class="signature"><br></pre><div class="signature"><span style="color:rgb(75, 0, 130)" class="colour"><b></b></span><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>