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Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing (www.bbc.com)

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October marked the 10th straight month of decline in the number of Canadian travellers to the US. Air travel from Canada to the US dropped nearly 24%, while car travel fell more than 30% when compared to the same period last year, according to data released this week by Canada's statistics office.

Overall, the US has seen a 3.2% drop in international spending in the country, driven primarily by fewer visitors from Canada, according to the US Travel Association, a nonprofit group representing the American travel industry.

As relations between the two countries remain icy, mostly in response to new tariffs Trump has imposed, Canadians are apparently committed to giving their southern neighbours the cold shoulder.

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[-] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 month ago

Articles like this are pissing me off. They keep glossing over the reasons.

One line on "Meanwhile, he has angered Canadians with his many public comments about making their country the "51st state"."

We had Tarriffs the last time that chunderhead was president, and it didn't stop us

How about

Threatening our sovereignty
Declaration of financial war on us
Disrespecting us as a country and as a people
Betraying our relationship
The threat of being disappeared if we go there
Constant belittlement of Canada from Americans
A complete and total lack of understanding literally anything about Canada by most Americans

We have supported the US time and time again, even when we probably shouldn't have. We got repaid for our loyalty by betrayal.

Fuck that country.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Also, they're now fingerprinting Canadians on the way in, as if it's a jail

[-] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

as if???

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Man, when did Canadians get so cool? Fuck the arsehole in chief for all he’s done to you guys. Keep up the boycott and good work!

[-] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

We always have been.

There is a reason no one hates Canada.

If it was a party, we were just quietly cool, while our neighbour got drunk, screamed at the top of their lungs, pissed in the fish tank and randomly punched people.