Pakistan, July 19 -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford has strongly criticised President Donald Trump's remarks blaming Canada for wildfire smoke affecting parts of the United States, calling the comments "absolutely unacceptable." Ford said Ontario remains focused on protecting communities from the devastating fires and stressed that Canada would support the United States in a similar emergency rather than exchange criticism.

Moreover, Trump blamed what he described as poor Canadian forest management for the smoke drifting across the US and said he planned to add the "incalculable cost" of dealing with the pollution to existing tariffs on Canadian goods. In response, Ford said around 655,000 hectares of forest were burning across Ontario and em...