Juno News - Canada's wildfire crisis is being driven by forest management policies？

00:00:00.000 Let's talk about the forest fires, Scott.

00:00:01.400 I know this is an issue that is near and dear to your heart.

00:00:05.360 Many of these fires were started intentionally,

00:00:08.560 and you believe there are nefarious reasons behind them,

00:00:13.500 not just accidental starts or even people who are starting them intentionally.

00:00:20.040 You feel that there's a conspiracy behind the reason why this is happening.

00:00:25.140 Is that fair?

00:00:25.660 I guess I would call it a conspiracy in which most players are unconscious.

00:00:34.680 The fires are caused by something called natural management of our forests.

00:00:40.980 This is throughout the world, under directives from the United Nations.

00:00:46.360 My parents were friends with Bob Rogers, who is head of Crown Zellerbeck and a left-handed governor in British Columbia.

00:00:54.340 told me once you know we used to pull up the stumps and we used to burn them we take the

00:01:01.380 deadfall out of the creeks and burn it clear cuts or fire breaks he said and they stopped us doing

00:01:09.060 all of that so what natural regulation means is that um all the trees who the all the seeds that

00:01:17.920 fall are allowed to grow so it's like a whole bunch of little carrots growing up in every

00:01:23.600 forests in the world they are not thinned they pull all the water from the aquifers beneath

00:01:29.960 they desiccate because there's not enough water and then they become fire ladders it's just the 0.99

00:01:36.900 forests are filled with tinder so all you need is a lightning strike or a stupid malignant kid 0.97

00:01:44.200 to start a fire and you've got a conflagration so when i wrote eco-fascists i worked with 0.98

00:01:51.400 people in the u.s forest service who had documented this over many many years and they are afraid or

00:01:59.180 were afraid at the time because it's already happened that these things cause these massive

00:02:04.760 canopy fires which are unstoppable and this is now happening all over the world and it has

00:02:12.360 one origin it's the food and agriculture organization of the united nations so when

00:02:18.880 Trump was complaining because of these massive clouds of smoke coming south during the FIFA

00:02:26.200 World Cup and pointing at Canada and saying, you've got to do this, and now we're going to

00:02:31.040 subject you to tariffs as a result, or you need to pay us reparations, something along those lines.

00:02:38.360 Do you think he had a point there? Did he have... He's absolutely right. When Trump took power

00:02:44.280 was the Department of the Interior in the red states

00:02:48.280 immediately went into the forest

00:02:51.280 and started clearing the deadfall

00:02:54.280 and the fire ladders off the trees.

Juno News - August 05, 2026