The leader of Canada’s Ontario province, Doug Ford, lashed out at President Donald Trump over his threat to add “the cost of pollution” from that country’s wildfires to US tariffs.
Trump said that he’s holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke hovering over much of the Midwest and the eastern United States and vowed to call Prime Minister Mark Carney “to find out what they are doing about it.”
CNN spoke to Ford and Avi Lewis, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, for their thoughts on Trump’s comments.
0:00 Trump: “Pay us some damages”
1:05 Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Trump’s comments
5:10 Avi Lewis: Trump’s comments “are detached from reality”
7:17 Lewis’ message to some Michigan lawmakers critical of Canada
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Canadian premier calls Trump’s threat to add wildfire pollution costs to tariffs ‘unacceptable’: https://cnn.it/4yy92sr
TACO just being TACO 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
That’s different.
As of July 20, 2026, there are 74 large, active wildfires burning across the United States. Because of the intense national fire activity and extreme resource strain, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) officially elevated the National Preparedness Level to Level 5 (PL 5)—the highest possible level on its scale.
Please instruct your President and the Republican party to stop being total dicks. You had problems? We helped. Over and over. No tariffs. No charges. No whining. Just help.
On Sunday, July 12, 2026 56-year-old helicopter pilot Nicholas Dale from Sooke, British Columbia, was killed while helping to battle a major wildfire in western Colorado.
1. Jan 2025 – South California Winter Wildfires:
◦ 14 major concurrent wildfires
◦ In response to an official U.S. Request for Federal Assistance, Canada mobilized an operational deployment consisting of roughly 250 personnel, heavy aircraft, & specialized support.
2. 2024 Wildfire Season:
◦ Québec initiated its multi-phased deployment of CL-415 waterbombers to Los Angeles late in the summer to assist with escalating California blazes.
3. 2020 Western U.S. Wildfire Season:
◦ An extraordinary fire season gripped the western United States, with 59 massive fires simultaneously consuming more than 5.2 million acres of land.
◦ Canada sent a total of 594 wildland firefighters and technical specialists to assist U.S. agencies.
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4. 2000 Record-Setting American Wildfire Season:
◦ Severe, historic drought conditions caused nearly 7 million acres of forest and grassland to burn from Texas north to Montana costing the US over US$2 billion in suppression and damages.
◦ Canada mobilized more than 1,300 fire management personnel to the US operating on the ground for months, remaining deployed from late April through October to bring the massive border-state fires under control.
The elephant in the room is the toxic air pollution in Iran that an American president created far outweighing the smoke from burning trees in Canada.
The air quality in parts of Iran — especially around Tehran — became highly toxic and acutely hazardous to human health following military airstrikes on oil infrastructure. Airstrikes targeted multiple critical oil storage facilities, refineries, and fuel depots, including the Shahran, Aqdasieh, and Karaj depots, as well as the major Tehran oil refinery. Because the United States and Israel launched these joint operations, the environmental fallout was immediate: The Toxic Cloud: Burning fuel reserves blanketed major metropolitan areas under a suffocating shroud of thick, black smoke. A Cocktail of Pollutants: Atmospheric and chemical experts confirmed the air became heavily saturated with ultrafine particulate matter (PM2.5), toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. “Black Rain” Phenomenon: The high concentration of soot, sulfur, and unburned oil droplets mixed with atmospheric moisture, causing highly dangerous, acidic “black rain” to fall over Tehran. This rain deposited oily, toxic chemicals onto buildings, vehicles, and soil.
Disgusting criminal
What a joke canada is
United States has wild fires but they are good fires especially that one in Minnesota that crossed into Canada. Canada’s fires are evil. And global warming, what about January?
Canadian here, if Trump decides to try and tarriff Canada over the wind blowing smoke over the border, the same logic says that if any hurricanes come up to Canada from the US, as has happened in the past, Canada should be able to sue for damages caused by any and all tropical storms or hurricanes that come up the coast from the southern states.
No Grampa Simpson means he wants the money is HIS POCKET
It’s called #ClimateEmergency.
Trump ripped up ParisAccords back in his first term.
RepubliCons are #ClimateEmergencyDeniers.
Top notch environmentalist on here answering questions.
No offers of help from the #US.
Trump is 100% justified in what he says. Report the facts on Canadian mismanagement or stop putting out this nonsense “news”.
Typical Dumb Trump’s “off-the-a..rs” BRILLIANTLY stupid rants. Wouldn’t take stinky remarks seriously!! 😂🤭
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨
𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐫. 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.
Funny Trump doesn’t mention the fires in Florida!
There are currently 100s of canadian firefighters aiding the americans currently
The American people feel your frustration Mr Ford. This is the same president that is working on dismantling the EPA, has increased emission limits for industry & pardoned large corporations facing huge fines. What a joke.