Numbers of return road and air trips continue to fall after trade policy row and threats to annex country

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.

  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca
    271·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • MrStankov@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      Maybe someday friend, but you’ve made the right choice for now. There are still good people here.

      • TwinTitans@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 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