Dear @MarkJCarney
Hit back, hard. Potash, energy, especially oil as their strategic reserves are so low. Export tax.
Cripple their oil sector
No potash for fertilizer
Yes, they'll punch bank. Hit them again. Make life unaffordable to Americans just before the midterms.
America. What the hell happened to us?
Canada 🇨🇦 is fighting enormous #wildfires. Firefighters are risking their lives. Families are evacuating. Communities are watching the horizon and wondering whether they’ll still have homes tomorrow.
And a depressing number of Americans demand that #Canada somehow “control” millions of acres of burning wilderness.
The president threatens tariffs…
I’m not that old but I still remember a time when this country used to send help when people were in danger.
Canada is our closest neighbor, one of our oldest allies, and one of the first countries to show up when Americans need help. The common sense response is compassion, cooperation, and every available firefighting resource we can spare.
Helping allies shouldn’t be controversial. Wake the hell up, #USA, and stop acting like petulant children.
Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
Lecturing and threatening Canada on managing nearly 1.3 billion acres of boreal forest when you can’t properly renovate a 2000ft long reflecting pool in your capital is peak MAGA.
France's longest river has dried up.
Venezuela earthquakes crashing.
Utah, USA burned to the ground.
Canada is now burning.
Ocean waters are boiling.
Greenland's ice sheet is collapsing.
China's Typhoon Maysak crashing.
Europe is on fire…
And you still believe that, “climate change is a hoax.”
Those morons going that we should have raked the forrest floor should tell us where they would have started and when they will sign up to do the work. Here's the map.
Would you look at that. Smoke drifting up to Canada from the massive wildfires burning in Oregon and Washington.
The US National Weather Service Spokane shared this satellite image showing active U.S. wildfires.
Driven by mid-to-upper level winds, this massive smoke highway is tracking straight north, blanketing eastern Washington and northern Idaho before invading southern British Columbia.
It completely flips Trump’s bizarre rants about punishing Canada. Turns out the atmosphere flows both ways.
One of my fellow Michiganders posts about how bad the air quality is because of Canadian 🇨🇦 #wildfires, followed by something along the lines of “we should go up there and handle it.”
Yeah sure buddy. You head on up there 😂
Every wildfire season, a certain kind of American catches a whiff of Canadian smoke over the rust belt and instantly credentials himself as a bonafide expert in managing a few million square miles of boreal wilderness he couldn’t find on a map.
“Why can’t #Canada just put the fires out?”
My brother in continental geography. We can’t put our own fires out…
The US has thrown decades of eye-watering budgets at wildfire. We still lost Paradise in a morning and Lahaina in an afternoon. But by all means, keep posting to social media about those dastardly #Canadians.
Canada is the second-largest country on earth, close to half of it forest, much of it with no roads and no way in. These fires move 20 to 30 kilometers a day. You can watch every acre burn from orbit in real time and still not lay a hose on it.
In the future, maybe support climate science, conservation, and forestry if you want to breathe better.
From Osoyoos BC: As you can see, thick smoke is rolling in from the south & the smell of forest fire is strong. This isn't from a fire in Canada, it's from a big fire in Nespelem, Washington state, but we're not complaining. Know why? Because we understand how fire, wind, & the jetstream work. Hoping our southerly neighbors in Washington stay safe & obey evac orders. Prayers up for those in harm's way.
For those wondering why it's so hard to control remote wildfires in Canada, here are two maps which might help illustrate the problem. Let's call them: A) Where the people are; and B) Where the trees are.
In 2020, smoke from the California wildfires suffocated Canadian cities and towns. What did Canada do? Canada sent hundreds of firefighters, water bombers and other crews/equipment to support the US fire fighting efforts.
Same in 2025!
Canada is a good neighbour!