More than 900 fires are burning as experts warn Canada lacks a body to coordinate a growing climate threat
As more than 900 wildfires burn across Canada, prompting evacuation orders and pushing Ontario into its worst wildfire season on record, officials are renewing calls for the country to develop a national wildfire strategy through the creation of a federal agency.
Canada is the only G7 country that does not have a national emergency agency that is mandated to respond to wildfires.
After a disastrous July for wildfires that razed First Nations communities in northeasern Ontario and sent poisonous smoke southward through the US, provincial premier Doug Ford called for a countrywide response to the wildfire threat.