Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members

[shockedcanadian]

Sorry America but Police States are expensive and there isn't additional resources for anything else.

The Creepy Ones from Ontario in particular send their regards.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.

"We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer," begins the letter, published Monday and addressed to Ambassador Kirsten Hillman.

It was signed by Republican House representatives Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

"In our neck of the woods, summer months are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories, but this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all those things," says the letter, which can be read in full here.

The representatives ask how the federal government plans to mitigate the wildfire smoke, attributing "a lack of active forest management" as a major driver of Canadian wildfires, and suggesting that some of the fires began with arson.

"With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken."

 

[JGalt]

Sorry America but Police States are expensive and there isn't additional resources for anything else.

The Creepy Ones from Ontario in particular send their regards.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.

"We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer," begins the letter, published Monday and addressed to Ambassador Kirsten Hillman.

It was signed by Republican House representatives Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota.

"In our neck of the woods, summer months are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories, but this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all those things," says the letter, which can be read in full here.

The representatives ask how the federal government plans to mitigate the wildfire smoke, attributing "a lack of active forest management" as a major driver of Canadian wildfires, and suggesting that some of the fires began with arson.

"With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken."

That changes from days to day, actually it's not too bad today.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

Wildfire smoke was pretty bad here in 2023, and since then, every summer, we seem to be getting it here. Unusual. Sure I saw it now and then but I don't remember it being a frequent or common occurrence. When I was younger wildfire smoke was unheard of.

 

[shockedcanadian]

John James is pissed too. People in Michigan are complaining about a pile up of soot on their vehicles. Imagine what it must be doing to their lungs?

Canada finding new ways to reunite with old friends. I repeat, police states are expensive. Ontario insolvent because of them...

‘A public health emergency’: Michigan lawmaker calls on Canada to take action on wildfire smoke​

‘A public health emergency’: Michigan lawmaker calls on Canada to take action on wildfire smoke

A Michigan congressman is calling on Canadian leaders to do more to address the spread of wildfire smoke in his state.

www.ctvnews.ca

A Michigan congressman is calling on Canadian leaders to do more to address the spread of wildfire smoke in his state.

Representative John James, a Republican who represents Michigan’s 10th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, recently wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking for leaders in the country to take action to contain the wildfire crisis in the country, specifically citing the smoke from Manitoba’s wildfires.

“(Our constituents) are paying the price physically, economically, and environmentally for Canada’s failure to prevent disasters that are entirely foreseeable,” James wrote.


Environment and Climate Change Canada has confirmed 2025 is the smokiest year on record for Manitoba due to widespread wildfires.

James specifically took issue with Premier Wab Kinew’s comments last month, claiming he is diminishing the health impact on Americans from the wildfire smoke.

“Even more disturbing are Premier Kinew’s comments dismissing the health impact on their neighbors to the south as ‘trivial,’ adding that Americans ‘enjoying their summers’ is not a priority for Manitoba,” he wrote. “Let us be clear: this is not a seasonal annoyance. It is a public health emergency, and it is actively damaging the U.S.-Canada relationship.”

On July 10, Kinew responded to a letter from several U.S. lawmakers in Minnesota and Wisconsin criticizing the presence of wildfire smoke in their states. Kinew called the congresspeople who wrote the letter “ambulance chasers,” while praising the work of firefighters from the U.S. in helping with wildfire efforts.


“This is what turns people off from politics—when you’ve got a group of Congress people trying to trivialize and make hay out of a wildfire season where we’ve lost lives in our province,” Kinew said at the time. “There’s no place for that in politics.