The number of cross-border travellers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped by nearly 900,000 in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data — easily one of the worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of the COVID-19 health crisis.
In % it’s pretty bad…
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250410/dq250410c-eng.htm
Bad in which sense? 86% are still travelling to a fascist country, thats arguably pretty bad.
Most people’s international travel plans are usually months in advance. Dropping so quickly is actually surprising to me.
a 15 percent drop so quickly in something people habitually do is pretty impactful. The article itself indicates those 600k people represents an almost 17% drop from Canada.
Yes it does but I’m curious if similar swings happen in other years. That link only shows the past 5 years which is tainted from COVID downswings and upswings.
I’m sure the Cheeto is having an effect on travel but only looking at data from one year doesn’t prove it was directly related to his policies. For instance it can be travel stabilizing after a surge post pandemic.
It’s a year on year comparison, meaning that it’s down compared to the same month a year ago, which is a good reference point because it was post COVID and is the year that should be the most similar to the current one since it’s pretty useless to compare numbers from a decade ago when our population was lower.
The pandemic surge had ended in 2024 since everything reopened in 2022.