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New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5% to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9% to 1.2 million travellers.
The drop comes almost a year after Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.
The U.S. Travel Association estimates international tourism spending in the U.S. will fall by 3.2 per cent this year and attributes Canadians boycotting the U.S. as the “primary driver” for the $5.7-billion US loss.
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It would be interesting to see the Canadian traffic by provincial origin. I’m guessing the difference between, say, Newfies and Albertans is pretty different.
1,200,000 a month is still wild…
I have no idea why they’re still coming here, it’s way to risky to be crossing the borders
A couple of them have family there, or when you live 10 minutes to the border it is always tempting to fill your tank there for instance. Some have vacation planned for a year like Disneyworld or others. A lot are on business trip too.
when you live 10 minutes to the border it is always tempting to fill your tank there for instance
I’d be shocked if those people were doing so by airplane tho…
Filling up my car’s gas tank takes forever with one 50ml bottle at a time, and I`m not sure the savings per litre offset all this money I’ve been spending on airplane tickets…
hhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa you’re right, it was about air passenger :)
Come on, Canada, do better. I want to see it down by 25% come Easter.
People are greedy. Most of these people don’t know, or don’t care enough about what’s going on to contribute anything towards stopping it.
you won’t stop FFFF* CDN tourists.
*Fat Fucks with Flip Flops.
Elbows UP!
