Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/just-how-much-has-canadian-travel-to-the-us-declined-researchers-suggest-its-more-than-we-thought/
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meowmeow@quokk.au · 94 pts · 89d
Every Canadian I know now refuses to go across the border even to shop.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 55 pts · 89d
Not worth the (potential) bullshit. Besides, we have plenty of awesome stuff up here anyway, and health care for when you find that maybe trying to pet the wildlife was a bad idea.
meowmeow@quokk.au · 15 pts · 89d
I feel there is a story behind that…
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 89d
You have no idea how soft and docile meese are
meowmeow@quokk.au · 3 pts · 89d
I tried to pet a mountain lion once. Do you want to see the scar?
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 89d
Lol did you really? I'm game
I also can't say that I wouldn't loosely attempt. Kitty is kitty
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 89d
A Møøse once bit my sister ...
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 89d
Dozens of people get gored by Bison yearly on Catalina Island let alone Death Valley and the Mojave maiming people, well I can't imagine the Canadians are having a better time with stupid people not respecting that nature has teeth and will use them.
meowmeow@quokk.au · 3 pts · 89d
I’ve been to both places and have never seen Bison….
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d
Well they're only on Catalina Island, Death Valley just hates Germans and likes making them through non bison means.
meowmeow@quokk.au · 3 pts · 89d
Yeah well, they should try to pet a deathclaw. Everyone needs two assholes.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 89d
At least you didn't have to pay out of pocket
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 89d
I know some older Canadians who still spend every winter in Florida and plan to retire there. They are, of course, white and reasonably wealthy. Myself, I'd rather not live under fascism no matter how sunny the beach is.
rozodru@piefed.world · 3 pts · 88d
a couple of my parents friends are snowbirds, they all sold their properties in Florida.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 89d
It should be especially to shop. Shopping means supporting their economy just like holidays do.
Visiting family or if a business depend on it I can understand. But going to USA without needing to doesn't make any sense, whether you are from Canada or Europe or most other places in the world.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 89d
Yup, unsuspecting shoppers are easy pickens for the border peops.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 89d
I had to go across once in the past 10 years. Not planning to do so again any time soon.
AskMeForADickPic@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 89d
Imagine risking your life to visit the shithole states and you pick the most shitty of all the shitholes
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 89d
I know a few Quebecois .... who primarily speak French and have passable English ... who still cheer for Trump and MAGA and do want to go to Florida to be with Americans because of the "freedom".
I don't get this mentality because at one point it starts to look and sound more like a mental illness than a political ideology
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 89d
It IS a mental illness!
NABDad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 89d
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome.
zurchpet@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 88d
Trump Devotion Syndrome
INeedANewUserName@piefed.social · 6 pts · 89d
I suspect a good portion of those Canadians who regularly visited Florida are in a very high tax bracket that would be lower here in the USA and lowered even further by Trump's actions.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 89d
snowbirds, alot of them tend to well off or rich.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 89d
they are in canada freeze drying thier brains, and go to florida to fry thier brains in the heat.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 89d
This speaks more to the quality of Canadian tourists than American cities.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 89d
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 89d
FTFY.
Teknikal@anarchist.nexus · 47 pts · 89d
I think the World Cup is going to show its not just Canada.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 88d
Unfortunately, I think we'll find that world cup fans are even less discerning than Republican voters.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 89d
Until it reaches 0 it is not enough IMO.
updn@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 89d
As a Canadian, you guys can fuck right off, eh? Get your democratic shit together.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 89d
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 89d
I like coming north and spending my money to boost the Canadian economy because our laws down here are stupidly hurting my brothers and sisters in Canada. I hope that's still okay that I come north.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 88d
Honestly, any American that's actively anti-regime is a brother to us. If your resistance praxis is moving dollars north, so be it.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d
I won't stop ya, but I'll rib ya.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d
The ribbing is warranted. I'll take it if it means I can still get my All Dress chips, peameal bacon, and poutine.
updn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 86d
Don’t forget the Smarties!
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 89d
Good for them, fuck this place.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 89d
I am proud of my Canadian neighbors. I want unequivocal economic destruction traceable to the fat orange pedo.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 89d
By all rights, it should go to zero.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 89d
I won't even go to visit family.
rozodru@piefed.world · 10 pts · 88d
no point. there are much better places in the world and hell even in Canada itself to vacation. I'm not going to travel to a Nazi country and risk being detained at the border cause I want to save $50 on something.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 88d
do people actually believe that? Border shoppers are shit at math.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 89d
I go for a conference almost every year for work. Skipped last year, this year its in Canada (1 out of every 5 years) so I got a two for one.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 89d
42%
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 88d
Subjectively I am seeing far fewer Ontario plates around southeast Michigan. A couple years ago you would see a bunch especially around sporting events and on summer weekends.
A now there’s also this bullshit red tape trying to get the new Gordie Howe bridge open. Embarrassed how we’ve treated our neighbors the last year and a half.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 88d
I hope you and your fellow citizens can channel those feelings into the action needed to fix your country.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 88d
Next year: I'm genuinely embarrassed that our military bombed Toronto yesterday. So embarrassed. Oh gosh.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 88d
Hang on I didn’t consider wiping the Leafs off the map as an option.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 88d
Don't blame them one single bit. I'm actively investigating whether or not I'm eligible for Canadian citizenship through my great-grandmother, just so I have an emergency exit plan if things turn extra shooty after the mid-terms.
rabber@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 88d
Most Americans have no clue how hard life is here without generational wealth
The current state of things, you'd be lucky to land a job at a grocery store
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 88d
And nothing of value was lost. No one should be going there. Even after Trump fucks off. US will still be fash.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 89d
and MSM never mentioned a peep after the initial months.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 89d
Reading this as a Canadian that is currently spending his vacation in Japan after having been in Singapore for a week.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 88d
Ohhh I got some bad news for you
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
Tiral@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 89d
I'm surprised they can still travel with the housing crisis among everything else. Does it say WHERE they're traveling too instead? Because of the total has dropped turn it isn't just the US causing it.
logi@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 89d
I wonder how you could find that out 🤔
updn@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 89d
Jfc you sound like a Russian bot