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United States President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to increase tariffs on Canada after accusing authorities in his northern neighbor of negligence regarding the wildfires that are ravaging the country and have deteriorated air quality in American cities.
"This is deliberate negligence that is becoming an annual phenomenon and costing the United States billions of dollars; the cost of this pollution must necessarily be added to the tariffs Canada currently pays," the leader wrote on his Truth Social network.
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Trump held Canada responsible "for not properly maintaining its forests and the underbrush they contain, which causes the United States to suffer an unnecessary invasion of dirty, polluted, and harmful air, the quality of which is dangerous and totally unacceptable."
The head of state stated that he would call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and denounced that "Canada has refused to carry out basic forest management and debris removal tasks, knowing that such a refusal would lead precisely to this result."
The wildfires plaguing Canada continue to carry large plumes of smoke into parts of the United States, keeping wide areas of the country on alert due to their health effects.
The National Weather Service (NWS) maintains widespread air quality alerts this Friday across much of the Great Lakes region, up to New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
In total, more than one hundred million people in eighteen states and the District of Columbia are under these alerts due to the presence of fine pollutant particles from the smoke of these fires.
There are currently more than 800 active wildfires in Canada and the smoke continues to move southward driven by the winds.
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