THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Premier Doug Ford landed in smoky northwestern Ontario on Saturday, finding a city stretched to the limits at the front-line of the battle against raging wildfires, while questions mount over Queen’s Park and Ottawa’s responses to the crisis.

The devastation from those wildfires is on display as close as 150 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, where hundreds of metres of forest area have been burnt to the ground, with countless charred, broken tree branches lying on the scorched earth.