Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno on Thursday said he is introducing a bill that would sanction Canada and Canadian officials “responsible” for smoke and haze pouring across the Midwest creating hazardous air quality issues.
The Ohio MAGAt reposted an image of a deserted boulevard in Cleveland with buildings shrouded in haze, which seems to have been a common theme without wildfire smoke choking out Ohio towns in previous years.
See also, Youngstown, Ohio.
Moreno believes Canada’s government needed to invest in wildfire prevention methods such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns and beefed up enforcement against arson.
Four Congress members from Michigan also issued threats to Canada with a strongly worded letter.
Republican Reps. John James, Lisa McClain, Jack Bergman, and John Moolinar, all of Michigan, threatened that the US may invade Canada to manage the problem if Canadian officials don’t address the problem to their satisfaction.
“We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.