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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hannah Lang<\/p>\n
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Marylands, July 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said \u200con Sunday that he told Canadian Prime Minister Mark \u200cCarney that Canada must do better at controlling Ontario wildfires whose smoke has affected \u200bseveral U.S. states.<\/p>\n
The day after threatening to levy additional tariffs on Canadian goods to punish Canada over the wildfire smoke, Trump said he spoke to Carney at the FIFA World Cup final that \u200cboth of them attended \u2060on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“I have a good relationship with Mark Carney, but we’ve got to stop the fires up \u2060there,” Trump told reporters after he returned from the World Cup game in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
“Maybe they should pay us some damages or something, \u200bor \u200bwe should do some tariffs.”<\/p>\n
Heavy smoke \u200bfrom hundreds of fires \u200cin Ontario enveloped a swath of the United States from the Midwest to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic starting Thursday, prompting days of warnings to U.S. residents to stay indoors wherever possible.<\/p>\n
Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks.<\/p>\n
In \u200ca post on X on Saturday, \u200bCarney said Canada has deployed more \u200bthan 5,300 firefighting personnel, and \u200bis leveraging data and advanced thermal imaging to \u200csupport real-time detection and mitigation efforts.<\/p>\n
Roughly \u200b5.9 million acres (2.4 \u200bmillion hectares) have burned during this wildfire season in Canada, according to government data. Climate experts say rising global \u200btemperatures are driving an \u200cincrease in the frequency and intensity of wildfires around \u200bthe world.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Hannah Lang in New York; Editing \u200bby Sergio Non and Michael Perry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Adds byline, dateline) By Trevor Hunnicutt and Hannah Lang JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Marylands, July 19 (Reuters) – U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,1376,19497,2659,44],"class_list":["post-813466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-joint-base-andrews","tag-mark-carney","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}