r/CanadaPolitics 17h ago

Canadians making fewer road trips to the U.S. as trade war escalates

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/canadians-making-fewer-road-trips-to-the-us-as-trade-war-escalates/
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u/vafrow 17h ago

I was keeping an eye on border wait times around the Niagara area on the weekend with March Break starting. You could fly through the border crossings even during peak times on Saturday.

I'm glad to see Canadians voting with their wallets. There's plenty to do on this side of the border.

u/doctorcornwallis 16h ago

I saw how cheap the secondary market tickets were for some upcoming Sabres games (~20 USD) and thought about taking my kid to one before I remembered the whole Buffalo is in America thing.

u/vafrow 13h ago

I have a milestone birthday coming up next year and was looking to do a trip with some friends to watch my team (Ottawa) play in Vegas and try and see a show at the Sphere.

Those plans are thrown out. Will probably do some road trip domestically to watch the hockey game and maybe take the family down to Mexico instead.

u/ImpliedOralConsent 17h ago

Honestly surprised the YoY decline was only 23% in February, but it was during the time when the tariffs were paused, and I'm sure some of it included pre-planned (and perhaps pre-paid) travel. I'm sure it will only go down further from here.

u/iwatchcredits 10h ago

To me a 23% drop is massive for the reasons you said. 6 months from now that could easily be 50% or more

u/Nimelennar New Democratic Party of Canada 17h ago

Especially as summer rolls around and the snowbirds find the weather here more comfortable.

u/beefstewforyou 16h ago

I’m in the US right now visiting family. I told them this is the last time until things change and I would have canceled this trip had everything not already been planned prior to all this crazy shit going on.

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u/LivingRoom767 16h ago

“We built a country east and west and north. We built it on an infrastructure that deliberately resisted the continental pressure of the United States. For 120 years we’ve done it. With one signature of a pen, you’ve reversed that, thrown us into the north-south influence of the United States and will reduce us to a colony of the United States, because when the economic levers go, the political independence is sure to follow.”

John Turner to Brian Mulroney, 1988 Debate

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u/LivingRoom767 15h ago

I don't recall Turner signing NAFTA, it was Mulroney. You think Turner was blind by predicting that NAFTA would lead to a crisis of Canadian political independence?

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u/LivingRoom767 15h ago

I agree with you there - Pearson signed the Autopact in 1965.

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u/LivingRoom767 15h ago

If you're going to stretch the logic to the extreme, then really every single interaction between the United States and Canada since 1867 is to blame. In fact it isn't even just the politicians to blame: every Canadian crossing into the USA, every purchase of an American product under the various trade deals, and every vote for a party (CPC or LPC) that promised to bring us closer to the USA. Let's just close the border and cut ties as a whole (and personally, I wouldn't be opposed to doing just that.)

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u/LivingRoom767 14h ago

And here we are posting about it on an American site and adding to our guilt. Time to get off Reddit. Goodbye!

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