As wildfires burn across Ontario, unlikely allies are teaming up to say that Premier Doug Ford isn’t doing enough.

NDP Leader Marit Stiles is finding herself in the company of U.S. President Donald Trump and other stateside Republicans in saying Ontario isn’t doing enough to stop forest fires.

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While Stiles is claiming, falsely, that Ford has cut the firefighting budget, Trump is claiming that Canada as a whole isn’t managing its forests properly.

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account.

He went on to say that the cost to the United States for the smoke-filled air should be recouped through increased tariffs on Canada.

It has become common for American politicians to blame Canada for smoke-filled skies. The truth is that the same winds carrying smoke from Northern Ontario are also carrying smoke from wildfires in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan to the American Northeast.

There is even a wildfire in Rockbridge County, Virginia, sending........

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