President Donald Trump said Sunday night he’s considering making Canada financially compensate the United States for economic damage caused by wildfire smoke that drifted from Canada into parts of the U.S. last week.
While speaking to reporters after returning from the World Cup final, Trump said he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the match about the smoke that enveloped much of the Midwest and East Coast.
“I told him, ‘You got to stop these fires from coming in and poisoning our air, our air’s been poisoned,’” he said. “I have a good relationship with Mark Carney, but, you know, we have got to stop the fires up there. If we can help them, we’ll help them, but maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.”’
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