{"id":814462,"date":"2026-07-20T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:12:09","slug":"trump-admin-demands-to-know-why-ottawa-not-paying-for-american-smoke-crossing-into-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814462\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin demands to know why Ottawa not paying for American smoke crossing into Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C. \u2013 As President Trump threatens to tariffs due to smoke from Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/wildfires\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with wildfires\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires<\/a>, he is also lambasting Prime Minister Carney over failure to pay for American smoke crossing over into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/british-columbia\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with British Columbia\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>With wildfires south of the border sending smoke north, leading to air quality warnings in regions of B.C., Trump unloaded on \u201cCanadian smoke mooching\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are holding Canada responsible for the United States being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!\u201d Trump posted to Truth Social while wandering onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/fifa\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with FIFA\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/world-cup\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with World Cup\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> victory stage. \u201cAt the same time, how dare Canada try to rip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/america\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with america\" target=\"_blank\">America<\/a> off by not paying for our big, beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/wildfire-smoke\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with wildfire smoke\" target=\"_blank\">wildfire smoke<\/a> that they are lucky to have crossing into their British Columbia skies! PAY UP!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President went on to accuse Canadians of \u201cfreeloading for years\u201d off of hardworking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/americans\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Americans\" target=\"_blank\">Americans<\/a>\u2019 wildfire smoke, demanding years of back payments to be made in TrumpCoin directly to his son\u2019s cryptocurrency exchange. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can add your smoke payment to the tariffs you\u2019re paying directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/u-s\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with U.S.\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.<\/a> Treasury, which is definitely how tariffs work,\u201d Trump added. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra also accused Canadians of stealing high quality American wildfire smoke, but stopped short of suggested a specific remedy until he nailed down which billionaire Trump donor was willing pay him the highest bribe.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow up post Trump took shots at Canadian Air Force pilots who recently saved 11 stranded Minnesota teens, demanding they return the evacuees directly back into the wildfires until any and all tariffs are paid in full. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee More:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/climate-change-british-columbia\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">climate change British Columbia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/tag\/wildfires\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON D.C. \u2013 As President Trump threatens to tariffs due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, he is also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-814462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814462","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=814462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}