Canada Sends Water Bombers to US, Trump Responds with Tariffs?

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Eighteen months ago, Canadian water bombers flew into Los Angeles and helped save American homes from wildfire. Last month, Trump blamed Canada for polluting American air with wildfire smoke and threatened new tariffs over it. This month, members of Congress are demanding answers about a Trump administration plan to decertify — and tariff — the exact Canadian aircraft American wildland firefighters depend on. Canada has battled nearly 900 active wildfires this year. 64 million Americans have lived under air quality alerts. Trump's response: "We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests... the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air." He floated adding pollution costs directly onto Canada's tariffs — an idea with no real mechanism, since tariffs tax physical goods crossing a border, not smoke drifting across one. Two days before signing the 50% Section 338 tariffs this channel already co

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