Brigitte Pellerin: Ottawa's mayor made a campaign pledge to plant one million trees during his first mandate. He's about 900,000 trees short.

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All I want for Christmas is a decent tree canopy. Instead, all I’ve got is this rotten Yuletide tale of how the capital city of a country known around the world for its forests, a nation whose symbol is the maple leaf, can’t plant trees without tripping over red tape. Even Charles Dickens couldn’t make that make sense.

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One of the promises Mayor Mark Sutcliffe made during the last campaign