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Old Nov 30, 2025 | 8:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Heyden
That might be accurate if the decline were over a longer period not in a single year. This one's on Trump.
Completely agree as the notion that boomers aging out of U.S. travel is even a factor in the steep decline in cross-border travel stat's seen since the anti-Canada rhetoric ramped up early this year completely ignores the reality of the travel boycott which is that's it's overwhelmingly due to that rhetoric and not other imagined reasons.

Poll after poll of Canadians since Feb. such as this one has found much the same thing, that 60% or more of respondents surveyed indicated they're staying away from U.S. because of the political tensions created by Trump & his administration. Not travel costs, the exchange rate, or bailing boomers but politics.

Unless and until the political situation changes markedly I don't see the U.S. travel boycott by Canadians softening much, especially if the periodic 51st state rhetoric continues.
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