No, Canada did not light up its forests just to get even with USA for the acid rains in 80’s. Instead, she was driven by “good” intentions. Trudeau government spent billions on fake programs supposedly aimed at reducing CO2 emissions. Guess what, these forest fires have generated more CO2 emissions (and other bad stuff) that these programs are supposed to cut for years to come. There are simply not enough water bombers to effectively fight these fires and no money to build them. At the same time Bombardier is slowly dying pushed out of the passenger planes market while it can be building these bombers for domestic use and for export. The old adagio says that there is no limit of damage that can be done by stupid people driven by good intentions.