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.
To the surprise of nobody.
Good.
Elbows up! Thank you Canada. At least one country in this world has principles and courage.
Tank us, Canada. We really need to hurt before Conservatives can be held accountable.
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
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.
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.
Maybe someday friend, but you’ve made the right choice for now. There are still good people here.
Of course. Most Americans are our friends, I hope there’s another day when I feel safe to travel to your country again.
My mom is getting close to where she can’t fly anywhere anymore. But she misses my uncle, and she misses the place he loves the most, a bay near Waikiki where he used to swim and where my cousin learned to swim, amid the huge fish and turtles.
But until Hawaii secedes, we can’t go. She’d like to see it one more time before she dies, though, and repeat the stories about my uncle who died after getting injured in UNAMSIL.
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
1 quarter of the amount of travel? Heads would roll normally if it was 5%.
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.
I had to travel to the US for work. I hated being there.
When people ask why the Canadian travel numbers aren’t zero, this is a big part of why. Business systems and markets take time to shift gracefully. Over time the friction in the business operations will guide more and more other opportunities and the quantity of border crossings from Canada to the US will continue to dwindle.
Elbows Up Canada.
we wont see the real effects till around december. its mostly pre-planned trips and business trips.
I’m going to be asked to do the same - a few short stints - and I’ve been seriously risking taking a stand and saying no.
My work asked me if I would travel to Las Vegas and I flat out told them no, and told them why.
I wish I could have said no.
I’m glad you made it back without being deported to el Salvador
As an American, same.
https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=43.655%2C-79.383
As of 11:00 PM, 12 August 2025, it is 26°C (78°F) in Toronto.
(This posted 03:39 UTC, 13 August 2025 (11:39 PM EST, 12 August 2025)).
