Environment Canada has issued special air quality statements for southwestern Ontario as prairie wildfire smoke sits over swaths of the province.

On Monday morning, Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement for the vast majority of southern Ontario, predicting "poor air quality" as a result of forest fires.

Degraded and/or unsafe air quality levels will continue across parts of Canada Monday as wildfire smoke lingers. However, the air quality will begin to improve as the week progresses, from west to eas