**THIS MAN WILL BE PM ONE DAY!** 🇨🇦
Wab Kinew just fired back at those American Congress ambulance chasers hunting for cheap Instagram clicks instead of doing their actual jobs. While real heroes — including American firefighters — battle our wildfires and save lives, these politicians politicize tragedy for likes.
No place for that during a state of emergency. Canada stands strong, handles our forests, and helps our neighbours. Proud of leaders who put people first.
#StandWithCanada #WabKinew #TrueNorthStrong
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.
Pierre Poilièvre: "Mexico City is safer than Vancouver!"
Why it's ridiculous, from someone who has lived there.
As a student in finance in HEC Montréal, I received a scholarship to spend a semester abroad.
I wanted to further my Spanish and elected Mexico D.F. , a city that I had already visited and fascinated me.
I knew it was dangerous.
But I knew danger: I had lived , for months at a times, in several Latin American countries before : Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, and in Mexico itselF, although in the small town of Leon, Guanajuato.
But I was wrong.
Mexico is in a category all by itself.
Beautiful, yes, but a beautiful monster.
My first morning walking up to the university, a 15 minutes walk, I got lost.
Lucky me, a police car stopped by me ( my long blond hair in a sea of dark tresses made a contrast) and offered me a ride to school !
I was ecstatic!
Once in class, telling the story to my Mexican counterparts with animation, praising the graciousness of their police, their eyes grew wide with fear :
" Estas loca ?"
"Never, ever interact with the police here anymore. You could have been killed. Disappeared."
"They are the most corrupt elements of our society!"
So that was my first morning.
And my first advice from my Mexican friends.
I got many more.
Hide my blonde hair,at night, walking back home.
Tourists are targets for robbery and kidnapping.
I bought a navy jacket with a hood.
Never, ever take a taxi on the streets, only use the" safe" ones, from a list given by the school or trusted sources.
Which I did.
Nevertheless, coming back from a friends's house, one night, a "safe" cabdriver took a wrong turn, stopped the car, and put a knife in my face, asking for my wallet.
I threw it at him and ran out of the car with a speed I had never possessed before.
Naturally, I did not call the police!
Afterwards, the kind widow whose house we students were living in insisted that I never walked back home alone from school at night alone.
My roommate , Allert, a 6"3" giant from the Netherlands, took up the assignment as my bodyguard.
Blonder than I, he never wore a hood though ...
Nothing worst happened to me, thankfully.
But it did to one my schoolmate.
ITAM, my exchange university in D.F., was a private university, attended by Mexico's elite.
Every morning, limousines arrived to drop off the cream of Mexico's society.
Gangs and Cartels could not resist that, of course.
And one day, we learned that one student was kidnapped for a ransom, while he was walking to take the shuttle between two campuses.
That threw cold water over me.
I took that shuttle twice a week.
I never knew what happened to him...
Hopefully , he is safe.
But that was common, very common, kidnapping rich kids, important targets, Mexicans told me, resigned.
I could tell you a thousand tales of dangers about Mexico.
My parents came to visit, my boyfriend too, and all were in awe of the dangerousness, the precautions they had to take, just to go from one city block to another sometimes.
But, danger aside, I also want to tell you that Mexico is beautiful.
Poignant. Vibrant. Unique.
I never felt so alive as when I was living inside this beautiful monster.
But a monster still.
So, for the Leader of the opposition ( or PM-in waiting as he likes to say !) to compare D.F to any Canadian City on the basis of the testimony of one person is irresponsible, ignorant, and foolish.
Pierre, travel a bit.
As we say in French, les voyages forment la jeunesse..
@PierrePoilievre #cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc
IN THE ZOCALO, MEXICO D.F. WITH MY FATHER.
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