4 Republicans in U.S. Congress accuse Canada of failing to do enough to prevent wildfires | CBC News

That tracks

Suffocating the fire with fire. Genius

We'll build a dome and Canada will pay for it!

That smoke is pretty black...

Time for a wall!

Federally, Canada has not had a Conservative government since late 2015. Though we now have that previous Conservative government's cental banker as our PM, but he calls himself a Liberal.

Ontario has had a Conservative government since mid-2018.

The problem, as I see it, is that environmentalism has lost a lot of momentum over the past decade. America bailing on the Paris climate accords, twice, really seems to have set the tone for other Western democracies, at least in their sense of urgency on this issue.

In Canada it does not help that the US's trade war has provided the government with a lot of cover to pursue "energy priorities" without the normal consultation process or environmental considerations.

I found these:

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/02/news/ontario-wildfires-emergency-forest-firefighting-fund

https://pipsc.ca/press-statement-canada-cant-strengthen-wildfire-resilience-while-cutting-the-experts-behind-it/

https://www.medicaldaily.com/first-nation-burned-ground-without-warning-exposing-canadas-wildfire-response-failures-476168

https://globalnews.ca/news/11968389/ontario-wildfire-political-response/

Provincial, not federal.

Or maybe, just maybe, we should both be working on this. After all, we are right next to you on the list, and certainly heading the wrong direction.

I'm not sure "shutting the fuck up" is the right way to go.

Same thing as us. One big thing for everyone, not just centered on climate, is get semis (mostly) off the road. Primary method of shipping should be freight trains, for multiple reasons including environmental.

You could feed the damn trains with coal and it'd better for the environment than running a hundred semis across the country and all the road maintenance that requires.

Our last administration was doing pretty well on green energy. We can both do better than 80% if we include nuclear.

EVs over ICE vehicles. Charging stations. Encourage home solar and battery solutions.

Actually regulate industry.

Regulating the seas might be more difficult and require more cooperation.

Honestly it shouldn't be hard to get out of the top 25 countries for per capita CO2 emissions.

Canadian cities are centered around cars.

...currently.

Winters are harsh, summers are plenty hot.

Insulation is neat.

Most power is supplied via 80% non fossil fuels and trending in the right direction.

Woo!

Obviously theres room for improvement but Canada is just not positioned to have low per capita emissions, it will always be lagging on this point.

Especially if we tried nothing else and got nowhere.

Look; I agree we're not gonna get there with a red government; we certainly aren't getting there under a blue one with their love of selling dinosaur juice and dinosaur farts.

But we can't get a happy shiny gov when everyone's fear-voting to avoid the racist ponzi-schene alternative; or fear-voting to avoid losing grip on the dream of just one more tax break for the rich-bitches to start that golden trickle-down.

So my thing is, get a new voting setup. I like the simplest, because the rest are too hard for people to care about, but yeah. And while we're already 10 years out and even more fucked than now, at least the rich bastards will be dead and we can kumbaya around the burning husk of civilisation (because everything's burning) knowing we're maybe on a better path.

When our descendants revert back to conservatism and invade the surface world, at least we'll have left them the seeds of a better world to grow up here while they're down there hiding from the radiation.

They are in the pocket of big oil, and you think 'big oil' wants there to be massive wildfire bringing attention to climate change?

I see you misread my comment… happens to the best of us