It’s not THAT shocking. People naturally have an aversion to visiting countries that repeatedly threaten to annexe their own country, and where it is apparently now legal to snatch people off the streets and deport them to concentration camps in foreign lands without due process.
It’s true and we’re heartsick about the whole friendly border we both love and our friendships and great trade in every sector. ❤️🇨🇦♥️ So easy for creeps to wreck.
It is a lot but there will be some minimum work-related volume like pick up trucks and cross border work-related. Curious about traffic deviations between say 11 AM local time and 3 PM, since those travelers are more free to decide whether to drive there or not.
Many ppl have work & family connections hard to cut on short notice. This drop might keep growing, if more slowly. Some of my husband's fam in so.Ontario quit coming to MI reunion due to unpleasant experiences crossing, and some MIers quit taking part in ON hockey tourneys due to same (re-entry).
Good for them. I don't want to visit us, and I live here. It will get even worse this summer for places like Maine that will lose a lot of seasonal Canadian vacationers (and their much-needed tourism dollars).
To keep yourselves safe you need to stay out of America.
Your lack of tourism and boycotts will hurt US. However, this resistance is ultimately helping us...because our govt is going to hurt us much more if we do nothing
Know WE the PEOPLE of America LOVE CANADA & you.
Thank you Tod for your videos
I'm planning a few short vacations in Canada this year and I'd head to Europe or the UK in 2025 if I hadn't gone in 2024. Sick to death of this country.
Good on them. Yanks only understand a punch in the face when they act inappropriately. Keep your money on your side of the border trumpy will cave as he always does.
We have seen this personally. We cross the border from Washington regularly to help our elderly parents. Last week hardly any BC plates crossing into US.
Dear Canadians - Do continue to send over your Canada Geese. A nearby high school was a stopover for the beasts and between their tempers and their digestive habits, they were roundly hated, and give us what we deserve.
A lot of Canadians online are talking as if they expect the US to invade any day now. They're angry at us all and I don't blame them, but I also don't want to become the most convenient target.
You will be treated politely but cautiously! Most Canadians ire is not directed at individual Americans but the country as a whole and the leaders specifically! I would avoid any MAGA hats or gear 😜
There are a lot. Athletes need to feel they can come into the country safely and leave it safely as well. It's a big investment and what if half your team gets thrown into detention because of social media posts or tattoos when they arrive?
I went to Russia some years ago. Great people even if Putin is a crook. Had no problem at all, nobody searched my iPhone, officers polite. I canceled my plans to go to the Usa. Many friends in Europe & Brazil are doing the same.
If MAGA continues to support Trump he will likely have them blaming foreign countries for their financial troubles. How welcoming is that for tourists?
I did visit the US last week: entered NY State over the Thousand Island bridge/border. It was Monday morning 10 am, that would normally have been a very busy time at the border. There was 1 car ahead of me. No commercial vehicles at all.
Just to be sure: I was treated friendly and professionally.
The numbers are still dramatically higher than I expected- and hoped for. I see screenshots of empty crossings, but that's not what those numbers show.
Can't blame people for not wanting to risk it, or to teach us a lesson. My hope is that Canadians boycott us for now, until we can get this lunatic out of office, then maybe we can go back to something like normal. Until then, this is some strong but necessary medicine.
The problem isn't the lunatic or his regime. It's the Americans who want this. Our lesser countrymen are what make us a pariah. This isn't a dictator who seized power militarily. This is a piece of orange shit who stole the election and is worshipped by a third of the nation.
Yup. Just like the government agencies that were built over decades and that Musk and his goons are destroying in a matter of weeks. It's a hell of a lot easier to break things than to build them.
We can't rely on your electoral system not to continue to create chaos, even with Trump gone. We've become far too dependent on the US & will look to other countries to find more reliable trading partners and allies. We will never be in this position again. The damage will take generations to repair
It's a completely ridiculous system designed to favor minority rule. If we had leaders with foresight and an interest in anything beyond lining their own pockets, we would've changed to a parliamentary system, abolished the electoral college and senate, etc. decades ago. And here we are.
I agree. Also it always astounded me that don't even have a nonpartisan agency to supervise and run your elections. As well, when Trump is gone, what about MAGA; all those people who supported him and all the Republican politicians & officials who enabled him and his gang?
I think you will have to wait a long time for it to be normal again. Even when you remove that odious POS, the trust is broken and will really take a lot at this point to repair.
Yep, 80 fucking years of goodwill pissed away in 3 months. Not sure what kind of economy you can have if no other country wants to trade with you. I guess we'll have to ask North Korea how they do it.
yeah, not sure we can be trusted to return to anything "normal" again for the foreseeable future, or even within my lifetime- it's actually probably better for most countries to not be dependent on the U.S. for anything anymore
No argument here. I don't trust most of my own fellow citizens. If there were a simple way to move somewhere else (esp. Canada, which a lot of people have been half-joking about since at least Bush 2), I'd seriously consider it.
It's infuriating. Americans, my compatriots, are children who chose fascism on a whim.
Given that they cannot be trusted to govern themselves, the US needs to be broken up into constituent parts and thereby be at least partially defanged.
It is heartbreaking. I am finding some of my former friends and colleagues are insane. They believe conspiracy theories that are absurd. Going to take a long time to fix, if ever.
There's a lot of blame to go around. Empires rise, and empires fall, for lots of reasons, some extremely stupid and avoidable. This is like a child being asked to share their stash of candy bars and responding by running all of them over with a steamroller.
It's a constant state of dread for me. Every day. Even if Trump just falls into a black hole and we magically revert back to how everything operated two months ago, I really don't think that solves anything. The US will be a shell of itself and the damage is done.
Yup. And the destruction they've caused to our institutions will be difficult if not impossible to reverse, even if Trump and Musk disappeared today. The rot goes wayyyyyy deeper than them.
Honestly, it's been kinda traumatizing for us up here too but at least we are coming together as a country and we are finding ways to stand up for Canada. Also our government is on the side of the people and we are all looking for ways to get through this together. You guys have a ways to go...
Yeah, some 65% of the US population couldn't be arsed to vote against fascism. It's not a minority, the majority is fascist it fascist supportive. We will remember that for quite a few decades. The grudge will depend on the fallout and the cleanup process
I've seen similar graphs for EU visitors to the US.
Pretty sure if I'd posted "Trump is an arse" on e.g. Bluesky or whatever they'd send me back on arrival. ...
Oh doggone that's torn it now! 🤷 Hey-ho, no $ spent in $-land.
Shocked so many people are still travelling to the USA. It’s so dangerous right now. Not to mention they are a threat and we shouldn’t be bolstering their economy.
I think this needs to get reposted. It’s really good information about what’s happening to our economy and to the people here. Hopefully the people in Canada are finding other good places to go.
This is so sad for all of the innocent people in America, who did not vote for Trump, but are still getting their businesses hit hard. I do understand it, though from Canada‘s perspective.
Not shocking to us Canadians. Your govt has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty as an independent country, insulted our Prime Minister & mistreated & detained some Canadian citizens (and other nationals) who've crossed into the US. Given all that, why would any Canadians ever want to go to the US?
Grew up in Bellingham, WA, so very familiar with these crossings. My Mom worked for years at Sears at the mall, and their sales volumes were linked to the CA exchange rate. This has to be devastating to Whatcom County and elsewhere.
The entire county those crossing are in depends on Canadian traffic. I expect half my friends will lose their jobs or businesses. We know whose fault it is though, and it’s not Canada.
I live in Lynden, WA next to the Lynden/Aldergrove border and I am amazed when I see Canadian license plates now, used to see what seems like ten times more only a few months ago. Our local Costco and all the gas stations must be having a hard time right now.
I run a amatuer fencing tournament in the twin cities we usually get a decent crowd from Canada (mainly Manitoba) this year we had a 3rd less than normal and now 2/3rds of those who originally signed up have pulled out explicitly stating the current political situation as to why.
We will miss you while you are gone, but (many?most?) of us live in hope of better days - and cheer all the boycotting you need to do.
I cannot see why ANYONE (except actual Nazis) would want to come here right now. Especially since "Welcome to America, now get out" seems to be the new slogan.
This is going to really hurt Florida and other Southern cities that used to see a lot of Canadian tourism. Peak winter snowbird season is over, but Canadians (used to) visit Florida year round. Too bad, Ron.
I would discourage any Canadian from visiting. There is no guarantee they won’t end up being detained. Our homeland security and ICE ground force are lawless marauders.
I remember my first time visiting the US, and how shocked I was at the level of poverty and crime on display. You move one or two streets over from a ritzy, glamorous street and suddenly everything is crumbling, bars on the windows, roads practically debris. Locals warn you to go.
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Keep watching the drop.
It’s going to get much worse
Your lack of tourism and boycotts will hurt US. However, this resistance is ultimately helping us...because our govt is going to hurt us much more if we do nothing
Know WE the PEOPLE of America LOVE CANADA & you.
Thank you Tod for your videos
It's not like Russians visiting Ukraine; the US has not invaded Canada, just annoyed it to Level One Canadian Anger: Elbows Up.
We would like to resume normal trading relationships with our most convenient trading partner.
I was just saying that this pass Sunday to a Canadian.
But I imagine there will be some teams that simply refuse
not that the country is less shitty. just not actively hostile to the tourists paying hard currency.
Just to be sure: I was treated friendly and professionally.
I'm probably too old to learn Japanese.
Given that they cannot be trusted to govern themselves, the US needs to be broken up into constituent parts and thereby be at least partially defanged.
Pretty sure if I'd posted "Trump is an arse" on e.g. Bluesky or whatever they'd send me back on arrival. ...
Oh doggone that's torn it now! 🤷 Hey-ho, no $ spent in $-land.
The US public needs to wake up and stop the insanity.
We loved it!
It lists the source as " Source: Whatcom Council of Governments (Akshay Kulkarni/CBC)"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/border-crossings-bc-data-1.7499651
Unknown how many of our current home sales are from Canadians who won't return next season.💔
I love my Canadian pals & this breaks my heart.
Also keep yourselves safe from disappearance at the hands of our secret police.
I cannot see why ANYONE (except actual Nazis) would want to come here right now. Especially since "Welcome to America, now get out" seems to be the new slogan.
May both our countries find a way through this nightmare 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
America is now a pariah nation.
Shit hole country
I hope someday in the future we can try to start mending our relationship but for now, fuck us. We don’t deserve your friendship