Travel to the US by Canadian residents has continued to drop significantly for the seventh month in a row, as new data confirms that Donald Trump’s threats have helped upend the summer tourism season.
Statistics Canada said on Monday that the number of Canadian residents who made a return trip to the US by car dropped 36.9% in July 2025, compared with the same month in 2024.
There were declines in air travel as well, where Canadian residents returning from the US by commercial airlines dropped by 25.8% in July compared with the previous year.
My mom is getting close to where she can’t fly anywhere anymore. But she misses my uncle, and she misses the place he loves the most, a bay near Waikiki where he used to swim and where my cousin learned to swim, amid the huge fish and turtles.
But until Hawaii secedes, we can’t go. She’d like to see it one more time before she dies, though, and repeat the stories about my uncle who died after getting injured in UNAMSIL.