Wildfires should be putting climate change in stark relief

Now is the time for governments to demonstrate that they’re serious about tackling climate change, and can give people something to believe in for the future.

Smoke from wildfires in Ontario clouds the air in Ottawa on June 6, 2023. New Angus Reid Institute polling suggests Canadians aren’t optimistic the wildfire situation will improve in the future.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

July 22, 2026

This past weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney reportedly had to sit through a lecture from United States President Donald Trump about the state of Canadian forest management, and how it was resulting in wildfire smoke callously ignoring the border and wafting into American s...

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