Travel to the US by Canadian residents has continued to drop significantly for the seventh month in a row, as new data confirms that Donald Trump’s threats have helped upend the summer tourism season.

Statistics Canada said on Monday that the number of Canadian residents who made a return trip to the US by car dropped 36.9% in July 2025, compared with the same month in 2024.

There were declines in air travel as well, where Canadian residents returning from the US by commercial airlines dropped by 25.8% in July compared with the previous year.

  • Devolution
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    235 days ago

    Tank us, Canada. We really need to hurt before Conservatives can be held accountable.

    • @MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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      45 days ago

      I’m from Missouri, a state under solid Republican control for 40 years. Do not underestimate a conservative’s ability to accept life getting measurably worse so long as the TV keeps telling them what they want to hear

    • @aramova@infosec.pub
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      75 days ago

      Yeah except they’ll just blame Hillary’s emails and Obama’s birth certificate or some batshit fuckwadery why they beg for another Trump Stimulus check.

  • @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
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    There’s been a few things I’ve wanted to cross for, even seriously considered it once 2 months ago until my wife said absolutely not.

    What’s sad is I wanted to visit Florida, NYC, and a few other spots. I doubt we’ll ever go back now.

    • You’re not missing much skipping out on Florida. Its like California except all the people in charge of the place have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. You’d be much better of visiting Cali/Hawaii or somewhere along the coast of Mexico.

      • @TwinTitans@lemmy.world
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        95 days ago

        Of course. Most Americans are our friends, I hope there’s another day when I feel safe to travel to your country again.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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      5 days ago

      As a long time NYer (I miss it) who now lives in Toronto, just take a day trip to Toronto. Nearly everything is better here. It’s smaller for sure, but the trees don’t look like they want to die and the smell of piss doesn’t permeate the air for half the year. It’s also slightly cheaper. The two cities are very diverse and share a lot of the same culture

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    195 days ago

    My father often bikes up to Canada, which means crossing the border. (obviously)

    Normally, there’s a long line of cars, and a bit of a wait.

    There wasn’t a single person in front of him when he got there, and just 2 cars waiting when he came back.