A water bomber aircraft battles a wildfire in southeast Manitoba as shown in this handout photo provided by the Manitoba government on May 27, 2025. Manitoba government via The Canadian Press via AP
Two Republican U.S. Congressmen have written a letter calling on the Canadian government to better manage its forests after wildfire smoke impacted air quality in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
“We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer,” begins a July 7 letter from Wisconsin Representative Tom Tiffany and Minnesota Representative Brad Finstad to U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kirsten Hillman.
