Canada Is Ablaze With 900 Wildfires – 202 Of Them Out Of Control. U.S. Wants Canada To Pay

 THE FIRES OF SUMMER 

Ten Canadian Communities Have Been Evacuated 

150 Fire Brigades Are Working The Fires 

Trump & Some In Congress Threaten New Tariffs On Canada As Punishment For Not 'Maintaining' The Forest Floors Of The 2.9 Million Acres Now Burned So Far 

Raging forest fires across all of Canada are affecting air quality in the upper Midwest and East Coast. Millions of U.S. citizens are urged to stay indoors as dense and dangerous smoke blankets Canada and parts of the U.S.  

Angered by the health risks, U.S. officials have grown to believe that Canadian negligence is causing the wilderness fires, and that Canadians should pay for the disruption to American citizens. 

A group of Congressional Republicans and the President have warned Canada that Canadians are at fault for the blazes and are not "properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein" and as a result the U.S. is being "invaded" by "filthy, polluted" and unhealthy air.  

Fire locations as of July 18th, 2026. (All Graphs: Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, Inc.) 

In 2018, The President Said That Finland Rakes Its Forest Floors To Keep Fires At Bay

 From The BBC, November 2018: 

"I was with the president of Finland, and he said: 'We have a much different [sic]..., we're a forest nation.' And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem," he added.

But Sauli Niinisto told the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper raking had not come up when they talked.

"I mentioned [to] him that Finland is a land covered by forests and we also have a good monitoring system and network," he said. 

The forestry director of the Finnish Forest Association, Heikki Savolainen, told the newspaper that raking was not usually a forest-management measure.

"Those statements were very interesting. I see raking only in my own yard. It belongs to yards and parks," he said.