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Canadian Travel Boycott Slams U.S. With Record Drop (www.visaverge.com)
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• Canadian vehicle trips to the U.S. dropped 35.2% in April 2025 compared with April 2024, hitting record lows. • New U.S. rule from April 11, 2025, requires Canadians staying over 30 days to register or risk $5,000 fines or jail. • Border businesses reported drops in sales up to 50%, with some losing more than 80% of walk-in traffic.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps some would try to argue that we are the "good" kind of foreigners and thus we should understand that we are safe,

Yeah exactly, I'm good on having Americans' own "leopards would never eat my face" attitude projected onto us.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Tell that to the Canadian woman who was detained while trying to legally enter and was disappeared for weeks until her friends got her story into the news - Canadians are very much NOT safe and with the 51st State rhetoric, we've got as much of a target on our backs as anyone else.