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• Canadian vehicle trips to the U.S. dropped 35.2% in April 2025 compared with April 2024, hitting record lows. • New U.S. rule from April 11, 2025, requires Canadians staying over 30 days to register or risk $5,000 fines or jail. • Border businesses reported drops in sales up to 50%, with some losing more than 80% of walk-in traffic.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As much as I'd like to take credit, we are not why U.S. tourism is struggling.

You have made it clear we are not safe in your country. We are not assured basic human rights like habeus corpus or due process. As a nation, we are insulted, threatened and talked down to, while people just like us are being arrested and deported to concentration camps in a South American dictatorship without a trial and without any time frame or prospect for release. This is a death sentence accomplished by subtler means. You have also made it clear this is all intentional, purposeful, and not going to change. Your hatred and disdain of foreigners is clear. Perhaps some would try to argue that we are the "good" kind of foreigners and thus we should understand that we are safe, but we understand better than you, that if other foreigners are not safe, none of us are safe, and neither are any of you. Nobody sane is going to travel to a country like that for a holiday. At most they are only going to travel there reluctantly and with abundant caution. U.S. policy is why U.S. tourism is struggling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps some would try to argue that we are the "good" kind of foreigners and thus we should understand that we are safe,

Yeah exactly, I'm good on having Americans' own "leopards would never eat my face" attitude projected onto us.

[–] AThing4String 6 points 3 days ago

Tell that to the Canadian woman who was detained while trying to legally enter and was disappeared for weeks until her friends got her story into the news - Canadians are very much NOT safe and with the 51st State rhetoric, we've got as much of a target on our backs as anyone else.

[–] smuuthbrane 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a travel boycott, we're avoiding your borders because we don't feel safe. If American citizens can be deported without due process, we have no illusions about being afforded basic decency or process. That's already been shown to be the case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There are several non intimidated Canadians who don't care about traveling to the states out of protest. It absolutely is also a boycott.