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The drop comes almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.

For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.

New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      It’s a form of gaslighting. They are minimizing our very legitimate concerns for our continued existence and right to self-determination and pretending we are only mad because of tariffs. They know exactly what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. The battle for Canada’s independence is already in progress. And right now it’s being conducted by information warfare. The risk is that it may not stay there, depending on how much progress they make in the information space.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      “War” usually implies a cause and an opponent. This is just chaotic, and against everyone