00:00Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has said that Canada needed to do more to stop wildfires
00:05whose smoke has drifted into the United States and affected air quality.
00:10Speaking after arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Trump said the fires were poisoning the air
00:15and argued that better forest management was needed.
00:19Well, it went good, but I told them, I mean, you've got to stop these fires from coming in and
00:25poisoning our air.
00:26Our air has been poisoned. I have a good relationship with Mark Carney, but, you know, we've got to stop
00:32the fires up there.
00:33If we can help them, we'll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we
00:39should do some tariffs.
00:40But it was terrible. I mean, you had businesses closing. In particular, Michigan.
00:45If you look at Detroit, the Detroit-Michigan area, they had to close everything.
00:49They had to close car plants and a lot of other things.
00:52So, I've never remembered this happening. Over the last four or five years, you saw it starting to take place.
00:59I've never remembered it happening before.
01:01Smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed much of the northeastern United States on Friday,
01:07including Washington, D.C., prompting air quality alerts in more than a dozen states.
01:12Nearly 28,500 square kilometres have burned in Canada this year.
01:17Although that is below the five-year average, shifting winds have carried smoke south across the border,
01:24triggering health warnings and air quality alerts in parts of the United States.
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