Freedman said the current budget for Ontario’s wildfire program is $130 million. “It might sound like a lot of money to folks, but to be honest, in a program with this many aircraft and personnel … that covers a wildland fire region double the size of France, $130 million just keeps the lights on,” he said. "To put it in perspective, [Premier] Doug Ford spent $103 million on commercials last year. We really need to start thinking about proactively funding the program so that we can buy things before we need them, whether that’s aircraft or even paying our pilots more so that we can actually fly the water bombers we own, much less buy new ones.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wildland-firefighters-budget-1.7576491

Uh, Canada needs an Air Force to be a credible partner in NATO.