<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Debra:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for sharing your petition. I have signed and posted your email / petition to the Trees for the Cities listserv.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hopefully, you get some very good traction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best</div><div class="">Naomi<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 5, 2019, at 12:12 PM, Debra Huron via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" class="">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">Good afternoon,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">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 class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">Today's advocacy onslaught consists of</span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">* a new<span class=""> </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);" class="">press release</a>.</span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">* a<span class=""> </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);" class="">letter</a><span class=""> </span>to members of a House of Commons Committee, and the Speakers of House and Senate,</span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">* an update to our<span class=""> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2tNqcTY" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(22, 108, 197);" class="">online petition</a>, launched in early February. It now has 225 signatures.<span class=""> </span>We're hoping this push today will get signatures up to 500. </span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">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 class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">On a related topic: </b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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 class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="highlight" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"><span class="font" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size: 14px;">best wishes, Debra</span></span></span></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="sig66169632" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><pre class="signature" style="font-size: 9pt; 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;"><br class=""></pre><div class="signature"><span class="colour" style="color: rgb(75, 0, 130);"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="signature"><br class=""></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><img style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="088EB378-C963-435F-A29A-6C29FB3B5287" src="cid:A2D8B975-2609-4124-9698-6DF4FF52BF2A@home"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>