Stay out of the woods. No hiking. No fishing. No camping. Don't ride your ATV. These were the messages this past summer in Atlantic Canada, as provinces dealt with high temperatures and dry conditions.

But those restrictions caused friction in the region — and across Canada — which Eric Kennedy says shouldn't be a surprise.

"Fire has always been political," Kennedy, an associate professor of disaster and emergency management at York University, told host Laura Lynch.

"When we look at fire history, there have always been questions about whose values get protected, about what fires we choose to fight, which ones we don't [and] how we invest money in fire preparedness."

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador all found themselves battling out of control wildfires this sum

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