Last week, a group of U.S. Republican lawmakers said they plan to make a formal complaint about Canada’s wildfire management to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the International Joint Commission, an organization that adjudicates cross-border disputes on water and air quality between Canada and the U.S. State lawmakers from North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin are calling for an investigation of Canada’s wildfire management policies and are seeking solutions under international law.

We have sympathy for people like Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, who has rebutted such criticism by pointing out that people have died, people have lost their homes and thousands of people have been displaced by the wildfires.

Kinew accused the critics of “playing politics” with the serious is

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