A News Commentary by Doug Draper
Posted July 11th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
If you have any doubts over what you may be hearing from many of your fellow Canadians – that they are staying away from the United States as long as Trump keeps dissing our country – check out the latest Statistic Canada numbers on road travel across the border.
According to a Stats Canada report released this July 10th, 2025; “In June 2025, the number of Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States totalled 1.3 million, a steep decline (-33.1%) from the same month in 2024 (Chart 4). June 2025 marked the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines.”
“In June, the highest number of returning Canadian-resident arrivals was observed on Sunday, June 29 (76,600). This number was 6.4% higher than the average for the other Sundays of the month,” the report added.
It says a lot that the only time that road trips across the Canada-U.S. border were lower was during the worst two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and2021 when federal governments in both countries banned what it called “all non-essential” or non-commercial traffic from crossing.
This time the nose dive in border crossings can be chalked up to one man in the White House who has spent time during the first five months of his second term as U.S. president hitting Canada with punishing tariffs and threatening to use economic force, if not military force, to make our country “a 51st state.”
A a result, what Trump has managed to do is to discourage many Canadians from travelling and spending money in his country, and to press our federal and provincial governments to move as fast as possible to find friendlier, more reliable trading partners around the world.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney has said a number of times, our more friendly and stable pre-Trump relationship with the United States “is over.”
To watch a report on this issue, click on the screen immediately below –
For more news on the Stats Canada report, click on the following links –
Canada U.S. travel: StatCan says ‘steep decline’ in June
Canadian trips back from the U.S. plummet again amid trade war: StatCan – National | Globalnews.ca
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