This petition calls on the federal government to create a national wildfire early-detection system using drones, satellites, and AI cameras, strengthen emissions reduction targets, and speed up the clean energy transition.

Canadian wildfire seasons are growing longer and more destructive, with 2023 and 2025 being the worst and second-worst wildfire seasons in Canadian history;

The 2026 season has already seen over 3,100 fires and 1.4 million hectares burned, with nearly 800 wildfires active nationally as of July, displacing families and blanketing communities across Canada and beyond in hazardous smoke;

The cost of suppressing a wildfire rises exponentially with its size, meaning every hour gained in detection saves lives, homes, forests, and public funds;

Drone technology, satellite imaging, and AI-enabled camera networks can detect ignitions within minutes — long before traditional lookout or public-report methods — and pilot projects such as AI wildfire-detection cameras in Kananaskis, Alberta have shown promise but remain small and fragmented;

Canada has invested in aerial firefighting response capacity but lacks a coordinated national early-detection system; and

Canada's emissions reduction and clean energy commitments must accelerate to limit the warming that fuels these disasters.

We, the undersigned,citizens and residents of Canada, call upon theGovernment of Canadato: 1. Establish and fund a national early wildfire detection program — deploying drones, satellite monitoring, and AI-assisted camera networks across high-risk regions — developed and operated in partnership with provinces, territories, and Indigenous communities, with the goal of detecting new ignitions within minutes rather than hours; 2. Strengthen and enforce national greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, with binding interim milestones on the path to net-zero; and 3. Accelerate the deployment of clean, renewable energy — including expedited permitting, grid modernization, and investment in wind, solar, hydro, and storage — to displace fossil fuel generation more quickly.