you're in charge of ontario, doug ford. this is your job to do. 

take responsibility for your own behaviour.

apologize to the people of ontario, and the people of the united states, for cutting the wildfire budgets. 

god, what a fucking loser.

instead of taking personal responsibility for his failures and mismanagement - which are the direct results of his budget cuts - he whines and complains that somebody else isn't doing it for him.

this guy calls himself a conservative, but the truth is that he's the worst kind of socialist.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/a-bunch-of-rubbish-ford-responds-to-trump-over-threats-of-wildfire-smoke-tariffs/

the way that a carbon tax (market access fee) like this would work is that the americans would set a monthly fee for ottawa to pay washington that is proportional to the amount of carbon generated that month, from all sources. total emissions. if canada seeks to lower it's market access fee, it will need to reduce it's carbon emissions. the fee should be paid by the state, not by individual polluters. this is intended as a state-to-state interaction, to force the government to (re-)implement better policies.

if canada doesn't pay the fee, the border gets shut until it does.

the americans should really do this for everybody, not just us.

canada has failed in it's climate change obligations. we've become a failed state.

it's time for the world to get tough on canada and start imposing sanctions on it for not doing it's part to reduce global emissions.

forcing american consumers to pay import taxes on canadian goods is not putting a price on pollution being created by canadians. that's not the policy i have in mind.

however, i will reiterate that i would support a decision by the united states to levy a carbon tax on canada, to replace the one we just abolished. it would not be in the form of a tariff but in the form of a market access fee.