Hochul: Our tourism industry is going to be flat on its back if we don't change it because the Canadians who spend a lot of money in our country… They're not coming
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Florida, specifically South Florida is already seeing a decline in Canadian tourism! The worst is still to come, doubt it will get better any time soon!
No one who doesn’t need to be here should come here. We deserve to be shunned and ostracized and the only think out oligarchs understand is money. Fascists don’t get tourists.
Day, two of beans, rice, vegetables, and one avocado to last few days because I don't have the money to afford anything more. $2.79 for one fucking avocado.
At least beans, rice, and veggies are good for you. Enjoy the veggies while you can since the field workers are all being deported. You wanted some milk, cheese, or butter? Those workers are being deported too. We'll be seeing some dietary change this summer.
Participate in the General Strike 5/1/25:
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Hochul is right. Canadian tourists supported a lot of NY resorts, hotels, bars & restaurants, attractions like Darien Lake, sports games, malls, and grocery stores, on vacations and day/weekend trips. They're gonna hurt badly.
Sorry, but Trump threatens our sovereignty & economy; it has to be done.
The scarier our police state gets, the more it will alienate foreigners. Whether for travel or for education or for building a life in the United States. https://youtu.be/cMXGV96hBu8
Completely plausible tourism scenario: A unit that's reverse-ICE is set up to kidnap Mexicans and Canadians, bring them to the United States, force them to be tourists and if they don't spend money, they get shot.
47 and the republicans threat and subsequent actions toward financial ruin and annexation of Canada is recognized as an act of aggression in international law.
It was one idiotic orange douchebag (that is unfortunately surrounded by lots more douchebags) that only 31.78% voted for…not all of are havin’ a good time here.✌🏼🇨🇦🤟🏼🇺🇸🤘🏼
Leaving aside the almost hostile attitude taken by this presidential administration toward any foreigners as reported by the media, why would Canadians travel to a country whose leader wants to forcefully absorb our country into the US?
There are many other countries where we feel welcome.
Please don’t come here.
I don’t want to be responsible for anyone ending up in a Salvadoran Gulag because their visa expired
I’m waiting for them to come for me.😳
As a damn American who loves Toronto , I don’t wanna go through the trauma of a bunch of customs agents who are power hungry. Don’t know what I do if they asked for my phone, maybe give it or maybe break it throwing it at a wall. I didn’t serve this country to be treated like this. Don’t come.
You’re like the worst governor ever you thought you could butter up Trump will you know you could if you named Penn station after him just so you could remodel the whole thing and then after he’s out of office you should change the name back, but by then Republicans will own New York City
Many Europeans are also not coming and who can blame them! Trump is threatening to send people to foreign jails without due process, including US Citizens!
Another 🏴 here, wanted to go back and do a follow up visit to NYC but won’t step 1 foot in the US during this administration, seemingly like many other potential tourists.
It will take more than impeaching Trump. Next is line is Pence. A full-on crackpot fanatic with oligarch-bound puppeteers. He'll stay the course. Next there's Mikey, who may collapse inward, but still has a nasty anti-democratic vision. T should be impeached today, but it won't end there and then.
And if you know your history, you know how he and his mistress ended up. I worked in a photo archive and have seen the photographic evidence firsthand (ie the negatives).
I don’t think there’s anything you could change that would drop many of us back. And I say this is an old white lady who is far less at risk of being apprehended at the border. Other than the many many many many things I’ve said about your idiotic president online.🤪
the only solution is removing f47 and the republican Nazi regime. many foreigners won't come to our shithole country bc they don't want to get locked up or sent to a concentration camp.
hell, I don't want to get locked up or detained for saying I don't like him.
If I were Canadian, I wouldn’t either. Sorry Canadian brothers and sisters for our idiot MAGA President and his followers. By the way, where do you recommend I visit in Canada, British Columbia area?
What time of year? Waterton is beautiful, Okanagan is too. Victoria is very pretty. For skiing if you are planning for the winter, Banff is close to three mountain slopes.
Considering even U.S. citizens have been kept in ICE detention for days or weeks upon re-entry to THEIR OWN COUNTRY, it's no wonder that foreigners don't want to take the risk of suffering even worse trauma.
🔴 ICE Death in Florida: Per The Miami Herald, “[a] woman who had been in ICE custody since February died Friday at the Broward Transitional Center in Deerfield Beach.”
One of the things that always comes to my mind with these weeks-long detentions is that *somebody* has to provide food for them. It makes me wonder if they just skip that step. Or they don’t put much energy into proper food prep. After all, the inmates are not people, they’re “illegals”.
Maybe.
But that doesn’t get people to the slot machines. They can tighten the slot machines, but they can’t get people to pay ridiculous resort fees or Daily $$40 parking fees on top of high room rates and taxes.
This true but nothing will change till trump is gone. Even after that, and there will be an after, it will take time to regain trust. America is a pariah.
Y'all can change whatever you like - it won't make a difference, though. Most of us Canadians have zero desire to go back. Americans don't seem to fully understand the permanent damage done. America cannot be trusted. Things may improve, someday, but it will never be the same.
I was supposed to tutor my wife's 🇫🇷 grand nephew this summer in English in the states. His father has informed us he is now afraid to let him come to the states. So, English class is off. It's happening everywhere.
ART, EXACTLY... His pea brain.thjnks there's a escape and get out jail free card waiting for him... im.seriously waiting for someone to say on tv. It's a.reality show for the rest of the world... good night Irene
Save your coins, folks…soon shelves will be empty, food will
be dangerous to eat, medicine will be too expensive be used Trump has stated he’s coming after the healthcare industry next with tariffs. He’s just starting fights with any and everyone. We are doomed.
Hate to tell you but even if it's changed back..a lot of us aren't coming back. We will have Elbows Up as long as Trump and/or his cronies are in charge. Have made commitment never to travel to the USA again. Sorry. Lots of Canada and the world to see.
Hi from 🇨🇦, we like you & others like you (Pritzker, Waltz, AOC, Sanders, etc). We're very sorry & please know we are cheering you on as you stand up to tyranny. However, most of us won't come back until it is safe to do so & that won't happen until the current regime is gone. Be safe & keep fighting
We realize that the ICEstapo is going to hurt tourism in blue states too, but travel to the US during the Republican Regime? Not an effing chance. Sorry, maybe in 2029...
Wow, now who could have predicted that!
They don't want to go where they're not wanted, where they get interrogated before crossing the border, where they may get detained and sent to god knows where over a traffic ticket.
Yeah, it tracks.
You all can come up here and support your former allies ?? 😇 though the whole border crossing experience isn’t the same for anyone I’m not sure what they ask you when you return to the USA. 😣
Ow hey, Danish guy here. I'm also done the US. Ever going there or buying American products is no longer an option. Now we just brace for when you try to invade
Good observation. We don't like bullies and fascists. Oh and it's not your tourism industry you have to change it's your gov't led by the orange head fascist.
The area that the walden galleria is in, in western NY has not seen the usual presence of Canadians. Canadians are not going to Fly out of buffalo to other destinations which is a common practice if you live in the GTA.
He telegraphed what his plans were by supporting Project 25. It’s all in there. For anyone to Google. 2016 he was a novelty. A semi-celebrity character. So it can be understood. But after he put kids in cages & stoked the Jan 6 insurrectionists you re-elected him? FU all. Shithole country 100%.
Yeah, no shit. NYC is probably my favourite city, have been 17 times. Quick one hour flight from Toronto.
I'm going to miss it but the US is forever off my list.
Hmmm...how about a "Sanctuary State" just for Canadians? They can ONLY tour BY then they hafta go right back home. The Feds would never allow this, of course.
Nor is anyone else since the Gestapo aka ICE keep detaining anyone who doesn't look or sound white enough and tryna send them to El Salvador's concentration camps.
You’ll have to excuse me if Im just not all that concerned right now with the tourism industry and just way more concerned about what the fuck is happening to our country as it’s being taken over by a fascist dictatorship that is deporting American Citizens and doing ARMED HOME INVASIONS on Citizens
No we’re not coming, and it’s going to get far worse. The boycott is not a trend. Get used to the new reality. Thank your Felon for killing everything he touches.
About to say- she doesn’t seem to have a problem taking billions to update Penn Station, so confused. It’s like she’s talking out of both sides of her mouth 🤷🏻♀️hmmmm. The thought is sickening
Hmm, spend money in a fascist country, assuming I’m not detained upon entry and sent to a third country’s gulag, or stay in Canada…..
Tough call, let me get back to you on that.
Hochul has some serious headwinds heading into 2926. I am from WNY, her home field, and she’s not real popular. Trump’s fuckery will probably help her if she’s the Democratic candidate. 2 years is a long time especially when a new generation is taking over.
The opportunity to "change it" was before the first Canadian citizen got arbitrarily detained and circle-transferred by ICE. That's now a risk premium that's baked into the cost of travelling to the States.
You are right Governor! Trump says he doesn’t need us - well apparently the states do! Especially Florida whose housing market is going to plummet with all the snow birds selling and not renting and not RVing in USA. Who needs any of this crap on vacation.
Nor will we be for a long time to come... I have now decided to totally forget about the United States and I live right by the border. All the threats and tariffs are BS. Who needs enemies when you now have friends like that!!
On our local news in Nashville an airline out of Canada cancelled all service to Nashville. From 5 to zero. We survive in this state on sales tax. We’re going to be hurting
It’s kinda sad. But it is also liberating.
The message is clear, Canada can no longer rely on the US as an ally. We will forge new international relationships and trading partners.
It’s like breaking up with your MAGA girlfriend and then going on “The Bachelor International” to “find love”.
Isn’t all government authoritarian to some degree I mean from driving licences and registering to vote to store loyalty discount cards. They know everything… that bottle of cheap Chardonnay and the packet of paracetamol at 7.38pm They know, you know.
No not at all. Skipped all US business and personal travel last time and doing it again. No conferences, corporate presentations, or consulting unless it can be done remotely. Not going into that shitshow.
Within a month tourism will be the least of your worries. Your economy will be destroyed by a mentally deranged psychopath and 350 million citizens will just stand by and watch. You need millions marching in the streets.
We have millions marching in the streets, every weekend. Literally. It won't change T's mind (such as it is), but it may pressure some R's in Congress to take back their power and make this stop. Their alternative is to never win an election again.
Why the heck would they come to the USA when lawless fascist Leader Lord Dampnut recently declared he wants to take over their nation, plays funny games with anyone crossing the borders? One would have to have a screw loose to enter the USA just now for purposes of tourism or whatever.
Not only are Canadians not coming, we're also boycotting all US goods until the orange pustule is gone. The videos of masked men throwing people in an unmarked vans have been viewed around the world millions of times. I'd rather visit somewhere safe.
If New Yorkers would elect progressive, forward-thinking leaders, instead of conservative blue dogs (Hochul) and neoliberals (Adams and Cuomo), New York would be more attractive to the entire world. Get conservatives of both parties out of New York, they destroy everything.
At this point most are suffering and many have Stockholm syndrome. I hope all Americans understand how they are suffering and why? To line the pockets of a few broligarchs and make a malignant narcissist feel good about himself.
We haven’t even started to suffer yet. And no, many Americans don’t understand that nor do they care. They feel like oligarchs lining their pockets is just fine and dandy, thank you very much.
I did NOT vote for this! I am both horrified & terrified that this is happening to our country! So many here never believed it would be this bad. I knew.
I don’t blame you one bit. My daughter is a dual citizen of US/Canada, as I gave birth to her in Newfoundland. Canada is an option. It’s a difficult decision as I’ve spent my entire life here. But it’s not the same country anymore. No one is safe here.
He cheated but the leaders on the Democratic side just told us to shut up about it. Seriously, everybody knows by now, Musk sent out fake ads using Harris’s name. Bomb threats were called in to the areas Trump was least likely to win. Trump thanked Elon for knowing a lot about the voting machines.
It took all of that and he won by less than 2%. The problem with Democrats is they didn’t fight hard enough for us. Minimum wage is still $7.25. The law doesn’t require any paid leave for anything including maternity leave. None of this affects the upper middle that includes politicians.
It's tempting to go down that rabbit hole but then I see he has a 42% approval rating and it makes sense. Americans are in fact dumb enough to want this criminal running the country.
39% today and dropping
Also you have to be careful with American surveys: only the brave would dare to be honest. Trump comes after people who do surveys he doesn’t like. I’m guessing it’s 39% of Republicans.
I DID NOT!! I voted blue, as I do every election! Our country has been slipping into a crime ridden pit for so years. Education has been degraded by GQP & the right wing media was allowed to propagate to extreme levels. I thought Biden could change things but then red states took the House in 2022.
You didn't but Americans did. I don't know how you can resolve that except by leaving. California seems to be the only state taking steps to get off a sinking ship.
That’s why we moved here a few years ago. We lived in Tucson for many years, but the state rolls back & forth. Phoenix is the largest population & votes R. But Newsom has said some disturbing things lately.
Thank you, Canadians, for kicking America to the curb.
Not all of us deserve it🥴, but Trump certainly does.
Florida and Arizona were apparently top vacation destinations for you; now it's Cancun and Oaxaca, Mexico!
Oh, the irony!
When many tourists have been detained at the custom & sent to detention centers for over a week without any explanations, 🤷♂️ how we can change the situation unless Trump Regime stops the illegal detention of tourists! 🤬
indeed! we are teaching our children and grandchildren to boycott.
maybe if elected officials had said something when the insults and threats were first being made and not waited until it hit their tourism dollars we'd think about returning sooner.
their silence will be heard up here for decades.
Parts of Europe aren’t a whole lot better, people who long for the return of fascism are in the ascendant.
A once civilised country, the UK is heading towards authoritarianism and countries like Hungary are already there.
Not ever going back. Too many guns. Too many people like my Ohio cousins who think Trump is divine. The damage is done. The divorce is final. We’re moving on.
I’m Canadian. I’d rather visit North Korea or Russia.
At this point, what’s the difference?
I’ll spend my money here, or in Europe or anywhere else. I’m sorry but our relationship is over. No more money for the US or their goods.
You’re not the centre of the universe.
I'm an American & I think EVERY country has played way too fucking nice with our dictator. There are more good than bad people here, luckily & a good portion of us think you need to stick it to him which WILL stick it to us but you CANNOT ENCOURAGE THIS SHIT. Boycott us until he's gone. I WOULD. 🤷♀️
🇨🇦 here. I live 45 minutes from the border. I’m never crossing again with the Orange menace in charge. In fact I’m reluctant to go back afterwards considering so many Americans voted for that demented monster.
It’s also the 30% that love this hatred. Kevin Sorbo writing that Canada is done. Really? Because Canadians want their own sovereignty. If Canada made even 1 threat to US, war would have been declared. Russia thought it would be easy to take over Ukraine. They’ve lost 1 million+ people. Think again!
Not just that. Low voter turnout, so people who COULD have stopped this, chose to stay the fuck home instead, or were single issue non voters as a protest to what was happening in Gaza.
I get it. I despise what is happening there, but they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
You know what's absolutely hilarious is people screaming at me on this app when I called this. It's like... Vote for Dems but fight like hard to pressure them into doing the right thing, at least you're starting SOMEWHERE as opposed to straight up fascists.
Wonder how Trump's going to react to blue states - for once - threatening to secede from the country. Think he could make peace in a week on this one??🤔
Trump and his stupid trade war... even if he was right about trade deficits being bad (he's not) he completely doesn't understand that the US is thoroughly a service economy.
The US tourism industry is a bigger export market by value than any kind of goods, and he's torched it.
And they won't come!
They won't come because this man has single-handedly took a great friendship and burnt it to a crisp!
The only way these Canucks will ever visit our shores again is if a) Donald Trump and his ilk are either in jail, dead, or put on an island to do their own bidding.
Or b) groveling on their hands and knees for even attempting to put Canada in their place.
And it's not just Canada either!
They'd have to go on a world wind apology tour to Europe, Asia, Africa, and just about every place else. Hell, even the penguins are pissed!
People are being kidnapped, science and equality are being erased and they are taking food and medical away from children, the poor and disabled. Do we have time to give AF about tourism? We have to take care of us as Canada is taking care of them.
1. The reason people are afraid to come here is because people are being kidnapped.
2. There will be quite a lot more poor people when tourism collapses and thousands of small businesses fold.
We can't separate these things. They are all interconnected.
We are also concerned about the prevalence of communicable (and otherwise preventable) diseases, the demise of your public health system, lack of safety around food and other environmental considerations, and there's always that pesky gun thing too.
Yeah. My point is that these are not separate issues, it's all part of the same problem...although it's perfectly reasonable to focus on one manageable thing.
All his EOs are designed to crush our economy so we bend to this authoritarian government. Cities and states depend on federal funds for many things but those funds are being withheld. This shitshow of a government thinks bullying into compliance will work. If we suffer long enough we'll give in.
Who in their right mind would travel to a country where, at any moment, jackbooted thugs could snatch you up and deport you to a foreign jail with ZERO due process?
Not just a jail, but a facility where you never go outside and you never leave until you die. No due process before or after, no hope, a life of no love, no hope, no meaning, no communication, just eventual death.
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All these fuckers are just foaming at the mouth for more bullshit & disarray.
However, only 31.78% of voters got him in. I don’t think we all need to be shunned.
Many travelers know that many of us despise this and will be forgiving.
We’re such a mixed populace, they can’t avoid it.
Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Sorry, but Trump threatens our sovereignty & economy; it has to be done.
You think you can just turn this off?
There are many other countries where we feel welcome.
I don’t want to be responsible for anyone ending up in a Salvadoran Gulag because their visa expired
I’m waiting for them to come for me.😳
Also, how on earth can the IOC and FIFA allow their upcoming events to continue, in all good conscience?! It would be grossly irresponsible.
He can get away with it because he's still POTUS.
https://maydaymovementusa.org/
It’s also because of an intense lack of respect people have now for our Country.
I cannot blame them.
Impeach👇 this monster and things might change
I believe you mean JD Vance~ who we have come to realize is just as horrific.
This catastrophic dismantling of our democracy could have been thwarted IF only the GOP hadn’t become his accomplices.
hell, I don't want to get locked up or detained for saying I don't like him.
(These pictures are Tofino).
Come on up!!!
The facility is owned by a private company, The Geo Group.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article305336021.html#storylink=cpy
But that doesn’t get people to the slot machines. They can tighten the slot machines, but they can’t get people to pay ridiculous resort fees or Daily $$40 parking fees on top of high room rates and taxes.
be dangerous to eat, medicine will be too expensive be used Trump has stated he’s coming after the healthcare industry next with tariffs. He’s just starting fights with any and everyone. We are doomed.
They don't want to go where they're not wanted, where they get interrogated before crossing the border, where they may get detained and sent to god knows where over a traffic ticket.
Yeah, it tracks.
Why would we want to travel to such an unsafe destination as the USA?
All of that is lost revenue.
I'm going to miss it but the US is forever off my list.
For Putin, his lover
She signed up with 45 for the tariffs for Canada.
If I'm not mistaken.
60% fewer airline tickets purchased to come to the U.S. this summer.
Nobody likes Nazi's.
but you're open to adding Trump's name to Penn Station.
So, ma'am, you're the problem, too.
Tough call, let me get back to you on that.
Hi from Barbados
Pretty sure it's not JUST Canadians who avoid the USA
And that includes World Cup Games & the Olympics
🖕tRump & everyone who voted for him &
all elected leaders who are wringing their hands but doing nothing of substance to stand up to fascism.
Better places to spend their money without worry.
The message is clear, Canada can no longer rely on the US as an ally. We will forge new international relationships and trading partners.
It’s like breaking up with your MAGA girlfriend and then going on “The Bachelor International” to “find love”.
🙄
🇨🇦
Also you have to be careful with American surveys: only the brave would dare to be honest. Trump comes after people who do surveys he doesn’t like. I’m guessing it’s 39% of Republicans.
Not all of us deserve it🥴, but Trump certainly does.
Florida and Arizona were apparently top vacation destinations for you; now it's Cancun and Oaxaca, Mexico!
Oh, the irony!
they're gonna embrace it, feed it, care for it...
for many years to come.
maybe if elected officials had said something when the insults and threats were first being made and not waited until it hit their tourism dollars we'd think about returning sooner.
their silence will be heard up here for decades.
Looking forward to upcoming trips to Eastern Canada and Europe. ✈️
I won't be back unless the current administration is no longer in office. He is ruining your country. 🇺🇸
I will wait....
A once civilised country, the UK is heading towards authoritarianism and countries like Hungary are already there.
Trump will die but MAGA will live on in the hateful bunch.
At this point, what’s the difference?
I’ll spend my money here, or in Europe or anywhere else. I’m sorry but our relationship is over. No more money for the US or their goods.
You’re not the centre of the universe.
Thanks to the criminals in the White House we are now on a watch list
🚨🚨🚨🚨👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
ATTENTION: Tourism is down ‼️
BODY SNATCHERS OF DHS 👹
U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties
March 2025
https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/
I get it. I despise what is happening there, but they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Enjoy your nonvoting "principles"
But nice try...
The US tourism industry is a bigger export market by value than any kind of goods, and he's torched it.
They won't come because this man has single-handedly took a great friendship and burnt it to a crisp!
The only way these Canucks will ever visit our shores again is if a) Donald Trump and his ilk are either in jail, dead, or put on an island to do their own bidding.
And it's not just Canada either!
They'd have to go on a world wind apology tour to Europe, Asia, Africa, and just about every place else. Hell, even the penguins are pissed!
2. There will be quite a lot more poor people when tourism collapses and thousands of small businesses fold.
We can't separate these things. They are all interconnected.
Not safe and will not give spend a dime there.