For the first time in years, the media in the U.S. started paying attention to Canada when wildfires made it hard for Americans to breathe.
The tabloid New York Post, which has an appropriately tabloid-y sense of humour, screamed “BLAME CANADA” across its front page, and “EH!POCALYPSE NOW” below that.
Watching the foreign firefighters arrive was an emotional experience, at least for this writer. And then, a question occurred: why do we need firefighters from other countries? Canada has enough firefighters of our own, don’t we? – The Government of Canada provides firefighting funding through different programs. Right now, just Alberta and Nova Scotia are receiving federal assistance and Quebec has applied for it. The Trudeau government has said they want to create a “Centre for Excellence for Wildland Fires,” but they haven’t done that yet. They also want to set up something called “WildFireSat,” to use satellites to track wildfires, but they haven’t done that yet either.
– Last month, Alberta lost more than two million acres – that’s 1.5 million football fields – to fire. Danielle Smith’s UCP government has made a bad situation worse. Her government cut firefighting programs in 2019, including the Aerial Rapattack rapid response team, and closed 26 of the province’s 127 wildfire lookout towers. More cuts in 2021 resulted in the loss of permanent staff, and Smith has overseen funding drop by $30 million since 2019.
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