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Angry Canadians Cancelling US Travel over Trump's Idiotic Trade War and Threats of Annexation [1]
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Date: 2025-02-23
Found this in the NY Post of all places:
Canadians are cancelling their American vacations en masse — as the next front in the US-Canada trade war is being fought at airports, gas stations and gift shops, The Post Has learned.
Both air and land travel have been impacted, as the US northern neighbors protest the impact of tariffs on their country’s economy — an offensive that could cost the American economy $2.1 billion and 14,000 jobs, the US Travel Association has estimated.
Carlo Tarini from Montreal traded his family’s April vacation to New York City for the Bahamas instead.
“We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore,” Tarini told The Post, adding that the US is wiped off the map for the next four years as far as his family’s travels are concerned.
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For others, it’s the sheer insult of the jokes around Canada being the 51st American state.
“With each passing day of more annexation threats, our family decided we have to cancel our March break Florida trip,” wrote a self-described “angry Canuck” and mother of four in a Reddit group where Canadians trade tales of US boycott.
Florida is one state that’s sure to feel the pain – it’s a darling of Canadian travelers, with many retirees – “snowbirds” as they’re known, spending the winters in the Sunshine State. The Fort Lauderdale area especially is flush with Canadians, with many returning to the same spots winter after winter. This year the area had been expecting between 1.3 and 1.5 million Canadian visitors, spending $950-975 million dollars.
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North of the 49th parallel, the owner of Maple Leaf Tours, who sells packaged group travel, told The Post an “alarming” number of vacationers cancelled US tours this year.
“It’s taken a turn for the worse across the industry,” said Kristine Geary.
She estimates US cancellations at 40%, and her losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“I’ve never seen this,” said Geary, whose family has owned the business for more than 30 years.
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