U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canada with higher tariffs, accusing Ottawa of failing to properly manage its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to pollute the air in the United States, which he described as “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy.”
“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!
I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable!
Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result.
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This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying,” Trump wrote on X.