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 north-eastern Ontario and sent poisonous smoke southward through the US, the provincial premier, Doug Ford, called for a countrywide response to the wildfire threat.
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