{"id":136104,"date":"2026-07-20T03:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/136104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T03:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:31:06","slug":"trump-threatens-canada-over-wildfires-maybe-they-should-pay-us-some-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/136104\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Canada over wildfires: ‘Maybe they should pay us some damages’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> said Sunday night he\u2019s considering making Canada<\/a> financially compensate the United States<\/a> for economic damage caused by wildfire smoke that drifted from Canada into parts of the U.S. last week.<\/p>\n

While speaking to reporters after returning from the World Cup final, Trump said he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> at the match about the smoke that enveloped much of the Midwest and East Coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him you got to stop these fires from coming in and poisoning our air, our air\u2019s been poisoned,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a good relationship with Mark Carney, but, you know, we have got to stop the fires up there. If we can help them, we\u2019ll help them, but maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beginning early last week, smoke haze from 3,500 fires in Canada, burning over more than 6 million acres, blanketed cities such as Detroit, New York City, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, and other major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. More than 100 million people were issued air quality alerts as the sky turned shades of brown and red.<\/p>\n

\"\"The New York City skyline is seen through a cover of wildfire smoke, in Jersey City, N.J., Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ryan Murphy)<\/p>\n

Trump said on Friday, \u201cWe are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests and Brush therein.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost is incalculable!\u201d he said. \u201cCanada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a practice in Canada that when a fire starts burning, they monitor critical assets,\u201d Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Friday<\/a>. \u201cThey let the fire burn as long as they feel like that fire is not going to risk those identified critical assets. As a consequence, they\u2019re letting a lot burn.\u201d Zeldin said his agency is working to \u201censure at the highest levels of our government that there is direct engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou had businesses closing, in particular in Michigan, if you look at Detroit, they had to close everything, they had to close car plants and a lot of other things,\u201d Trump also said. Four Republican state lawmakers in Michigan sent a letter to Carney asking his government to expand efforts to mitigate wildfires, saying, \u201cThis is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials\u201d about what they claim is a preventable crisis.<\/p>\n

DC AIR QUALITY REACHES SEVERELY POLLUTED LEVELS AS CANADIAN WILDFIRE SMOKE ROLLS IN<\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said last week<\/a> he would \u201cintroduce a bill to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill proposes requiring the president to determine within 30 days if the wildfires harmed U.S. air quality and if the Canadian government failed to take action \u201cpreventing, mitigating, or containing such events.\u201d If such evidence is found, the bill requires the executive branch to impose sanctions against Canadian officials working in land management, fire prevention, and environmental protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Sunday night he\u2019s considering making Canada financially compensate the United States for economic damage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,162,45320,8721,2737,5994,30,24449,1645],"class_list":["post-136104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-and-environment","tag-fires","tag-michigan","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-washington-dc","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}