Several Republican lawmakers are criticizing Canada over thick wildfire smoke drifting into the United States, with one senator pledging to introduce legislation to “sanction” the Canadian government over the fires.
Republican U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno wrote on X on July 16 that he will be “introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity.”
The Ohio senator did not say what sort of sanctions would be included in the bill. In a July 16 news release he argued Ottawa had failed to invest in wildfire prevention methods like fuel reduction, prescribed burns, forest thinning, and “stronger enforcement against arson.”…