President Trump has a new tariff target, and it's not over cars or steel. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the president threatened higher duties on Canadian goods, accusing Ottawa of "willful negligence" in handling its forests as hundreds of wildfires send smoke into the US, fouling air from the Midwest to the East Coast, per the Hill. Trump wrote that Canada is failing at "basic Forest Management" and vowed to call Prime Minister Mark Carney to demand action, arguing the economic toll—"Billions of Dollars"—of repeated smoke events should be tacked onto existing tariffs.
Canadian fire officials reported nearly 900 active blazes on Friday, fewer than 100 of them contained, as US officials issued air-quality alerts across more than a dozen states and urged some residents to stay indoors or mask up. Carney dismissed the criticism at a news conference in Ontario and countered that addressing climate change is a shared obligation, "including the United States," per the Canadian Press.
Republicans in Congress have also gone after Canada, with four Michigan House members writing in a letter to Carney that this is the third straight year they've warned of a preventable crisis. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio said he plans legislation to sanction Canada and its officials over the fires, calling it all an "atrocity." Meteorologists warn that smoke could continue drifting south until the fires are fully extinguished.
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