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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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    Air traffic to USA down 8.9% is very significant, and way beyond any statistical variance or uncertainty. Numbers at that scale tend to change slowly, so by that perspective 8.9% is a lot.

    And ironically the Canadian economy is up 2.6% in Q3, and industrial production is up 3.3%. And inflation is down to 2.2%!!
    So Canada is doing very well on major economic markers despite the sanctions from USA.
    USA on the other hand is not, and Trump is so embarrassed he won’t even allow his fudged numbers to be released.
    I call them fudged because he fires people who release “bad” numbers, because Trump claims bad numbers are fake.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        What’s really insane is that we can’t rule it out completely. USA is being run by a bunch of sociopaths, and Trump has dementia which undermines the little self control he used to have.

    • DishonestBirb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      20 hours ago

      Thats nice and all, but none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada. According to my Canadian family, grocery bills just keep on rising.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada.

        Except lower inflation is doing exactly that.
        Most of the world has been through a period of increased inflation, but Europe is getting it under control now, and apparently so is Canada. So yes this should definitely be helping.