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The drop comes almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.

For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.

New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Air traffic to USA down 8.9% is very significant, and way beyond any statistical variance or uncertainty. Numbers at that scale tend to change slowly, so by that perspective 8.9% is a lot.

    And ironically the Canadian economy is up 2.6% in Q3, and industrial production is up 3.3%. And inflation is down to 2.2%!!
    So Canada is doing very well on major economic markers despite the sanctions from USA.
    USA on the other hand is not, and Trump is so embarrassed he won’t even allow his fudged numbers to be released.
    I call them fudged because he fires people who release “bad” numbers, because Trump claims bad numbers are fake.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    5 hours ago

    The world should follow Canada’s lead and nobody should visit from anywhere.

    I’m American living in Germany and married to a German. I brought him to meet my family last November, because I suspected trump would win or there would be a more significant version of January 6th. People keep asking when we’re coming back, but why the hell would I endanger my husband like that? It’s simply not safe for anyone right now, but especially for noncitizens.

    I miss my family and friends, but they can come visit us. We’ll even help them get started learning German and help with their visas and housing if they want to stay.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    8 hours ago

    I love Canadians but please don’t return! Both for your safety and to send an economic message to all the shortsighted fools. It’s the only way some might wake up.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    8 hours ago

    “trade war” makes it sound so harmless… it’s more like “threats of annexation by the sitting president”…

  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Well, you can’t see or eat the AI the Americans are spending all their money on.

    You can experience it from home. It’s underwhelming.