‘Canadians of all stripes were naturally upset with Trump and have struck back the best way they can \u2014 at the American bottom line,’ writes reporter Bob Bruton<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know about you, but I don\u2019t feel bad about the American economy being hurt by the boycott by Canadian tourists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A U.S. Travel Association report is forecasting a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spending in the United States for 2025, a loss of $5.7 billion (USD) compared\u00a0to the previous year.<\/p>\n
This\u00a0loss is attributed to a decline in the number of Canadian visitors to the United States\u00a0\u2014 since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in January, used tariffs to start a trade war with Canada and said American should annex Canada, making it the 51st state.<\/p>\n
Canadians of all stripes were naturally upset with Trump and have struck back the best way they can\u00a0\u2014\u00a0at the American bottom line.<\/p>\n
Why should we put tourism dollars in American pockets if they\u2019re taking it from ours in tariffs?<\/p>\n
And this isn\u2019t just a tourism boycott. Canadians are staying away, or at least trying to, from American produce, packaged groceries and other goods from south of the border.<\/p>\n
Why should we buy American apples since, last time I looked, we grow apples in Ontario?<\/p>\n
Trump is trying to ruin the Canadian economy with his tariffs, hurt our international reputation with his annexation talk, to ostensibly prop up the American economy, all at our expense.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re one of the two largest economies on the planet (China?), you can do or at least try that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
But for how long when it\u2019s not really working?<\/p>\n
Trump has said the Canadian tourism problem would get worked out and there’s still love between the two nations.<\/p>\n
But after an anti-tariff commercial from Premier Doug Ford\u2019s Ontario government, which ran during baseball\u2019s World Series, Trump nixed trade talks with Canada, threatening to hit us with even more tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Who can tell what Trump would have done had Toronto\u2019s Blue Jays\u00a0beat the Los Angeles Dodgers for the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump has said the tariffs are necessary because Canada exports more to America than we import \u2014\u00a0a trade deficit, it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s a travel trade deficit; more Americans are travelling abroad than international tourists are visiting the U.S., which usually enjoys a travel trade surplus.<\/p>\n
For 2025, the travel association is forecasting a deficit of $70 billion (USD).<\/p>\n
Hand me the Kleenex.<\/p>\n
America elected Trump, or at least most voters did. Twice, in fact \u2014\u00a0the first time being 2017-2021.<\/p>\n
An argument can be made that Trump is the worst president in American history just by his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, costing tens of thousands of American lives.<\/p>\n
What could have convinced anyone that Trump would be any better at handling the American economy?<\/p>\n
So I don\u2019t feel bad for America, not that Trump cares.<\/p>\n
Bob Bruton covers city hall for BarrieToday. He has little patience for shortsighted political leaders, whether it’s here or south of the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Canadians of all stripes were naturally upset with Trump and have struck back the best way they can…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,189488,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-399876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-tariffsu-s-president-donald-trumpu-s-tariffs-on-canada","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115601029344694462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}