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Showing Original Post only (View all)🇨🇦 Canadians boycotting the United States are actually moving the needle. Las Vegas alone has taken a four-billion-dol [View all]
🇨🇦 Canadians boycotting the United States are actually moving the needle. Las Vegas alone has taken a four-billion-dollar hit because Canadians chose not to go. The American alcohol industry is down another nine hundred million. That is real impact.
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Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d7pj543eo
13 November 2025 Madeline Halpert
Kristy Gammon used to travel to the US from Canada at least once every other year, taking ski trips at Lake Placid in New York and travelling to Baltimore, Maryland, for her husband's favourite Orioles baseball games.
But those trips are now over, she said. .............
Since President Donald Trump took office earlier this year, the 62-year-old said she and most of her Canadian friends have decided to stop visiting the US as a way of protesting policies they oppose and trade actions Trump has taken against Canada.
"There are so many things that we just feel aghast about in terms of how [the administration] is acting internationally, behaving toward their own citizens, how they're treating their allies and neighbours, i.e. Canada," Ms Gammon said.
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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..........................
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🇨🇦 Canadians boycotting the United States are actually moving the needle. Las Vegas alone has taken a four-billion-dol [View all]
riversedge
10 hrs ago
OP
I keep wondering when America's travel/tourism industry will push back on MAGA
IronLionZion
9 hrs ago
#6
the tariffs and the threat to make us the 51st state has really peeved us mightily
dawn5651
9 hrs ago
#7
Biden was better on his bad days than any day in Trump's pathetic life.
twodogsbarking
9 hrs ago
#12