Canada Wildfire Sanctions: The CANADA FIRE Act
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While wildfire smoke is a major public concern, placing heavy economic sanctions on a closest ally like Canada is a very extreme step that most lawmakers would likely avoid.
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Canadian officials tied to forestry, wildfire response, or the Cabinet would become inadmissible to the US, and any visas they already hold would be automatically revoked. This would block senior Canadian government figures and their family members from traveling to the US for business, diplomacy, or personal reasons.
“A foreign person identified under section 6(a) is-- (1) inadmissible to the United States; (2) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to enter the United States”
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
CANADA FIRE Act
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