[E. Pluribus Unum]

Wildfires are a natural part of the ecology. Preventing them until the flammable biomass builds up to catastrophic proportions is not natural.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Give every Canuk a bucket, point them to a river, fill the bucket, point them to the fire, empty the bucket on the fire and repeat, and repeat, and repeat until the fire is put out. Then point the to the road home.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

So there clearly are things that could be done to extinguish and even prevent the fires: construct the necessary infrastructure and actively manage the forests.

That would certainly be possible, with enough money and enough labor. Probably millions of workers and trillions of dollars. There is a LOT of forest in Canada.

And there were catastrophic wildfires long before the U.S. Forest Service began actively suppressing fires. Read about the Peshtigo fire of 1871, decades before there was any USFS.

[Wallace T.]

I hope the western provinces of Canada either secede or get full control over their affairs except for defense. The government of Alberta seems like it is sane.

[The Great RJ]

The same conditions have existed in Canadian forests for decades as have lightening strikes. Why only in the last few years have these fires burned unchecked?

[1756-L85E]

“Wildfires are a natural part of the ecology.”

So are humans