Canadian travel cancellations start adding up to economic loss for Adirondack businesses
By Tim Rowland
Ed Palen, owner of Adirondack Rock and River Lodge in Keene received a very pleasant note last week with some less-than pleasant news: A Canadian hiking group with a long history of visiting the Adirondacks each summer would not be coming this year due to the agitated state of the current U.S. politics.
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“They said ‘we love coming to the Adirondacks and it has nothing to do with you, but (Canadian Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau asked us not to travel to the U.S. until the political climate changes, and we are taking that literally,’” Palen said.
As winter winds down, tourism officials are keeping one eye on the border to see if anecdotal evidence of soured relations between the two nations translates into real economic damage.
“We are two regular Canadian visitors to the Adirondacks; it is one of our favorite places,” wrote a poster on Instagram. “It pains me to say the U.S. president’s recent offensive and disrespectful behavior toward Canada has caused us to decide not to return to the U.S. while DJT is in power.”
Among President Donald Trump’s first presidential actions last month was to announce a 25% tariff on most Canadian imports, and 10% on oil. Although he later backed down, his tactics caused hard feelings up north and led, among other things, to the booing of the Star Spangled Banner at NHL games.
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According to the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST), about 5% of the visitors to the Northern Adirondacks are from Canada. Losing 20% of total Canadian visitation would mean a $12 million blow to the Adirondack economy, plus the loss of $583,000 in tax revenue.
Tourism officials respond
ROOST CEO Dan Kelleher said the agency is “receiving feedback that many Canadian travelers have opted to change or cancel their U.S. travel plans.” That’s created some fear in the hospitality industry about what might lie ahead.
Through credit card and cell phone data, ROOST can tell if there’s been a dent in Canadian traffic, although Kelleher said it would be another month before such trends, if any, could be identified. Meanwhile, he said “we’re trying to be proactive,” with targeted advertising letting Canadians know “that they are welcome and they are loved.”
In a statement released Wednesday, ROOST noted that Adirondack communities “have always enjoyed a strong relationship with their Canadian neighbors, traveling freely and often across the border for vacations, shopping, sporting events and day trips.”
Impacts on regional businesses
At Rock and River, Palen said about 15% of his business is Canadian. The recent cancellation will cost the business $5,000, and while a couple weekend days can probably be recouped, the rest of the week likely cannot. The cancellation will affect other Adirondack businesses as well, he said, since the Ottawa group ate at local restaurants and bought gear in Keene Valley.
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Palen said he didn’t try to change their minds, but wrote them back to say that he understood and assured them they would always be welcome back.
The mercurial Trump has not entirely taken the possibility of tariffs off the table, and has already enacted steep tariffs on steel and aluminum. That in itself is a blow to Canada, which sends more steel to the U.S. than any other country, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. The resulting economic damage could hurt the North Country indirectly as well, said Garry Douglas, president of the North Country Chamber of Commerce in Plattsburgh.
If tariffs are enacted, it could damage the Canadian economy. That could prevent Canadian citizens from vacationing in the U.S., or anywhere else.
“Don’t think this doesn’t impact tourism and cross-border shopping; it is estimated that these huge tariffs, if not short-lived, could knock at least three points off Canada’s GDP, potentially causing a recession,” Douglas wrote in a briefing to chamber members when the tariffs were first announced. “We know a recession undercuts consumer spending and travel, not to mention predictable negativity by many of our neighbors towards spending in the U.S. as a result.”
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Looking ahead
Kristy Deyo Farrell, owner of Cedar Run Bakery and Market, as well as rental properties in Keene, said there’s some general nervousness in tourism circles about what appears to be an uncertain future.
Farrell said she hosted some Canadian guests in a cabin over the weekend and “apologized profusely” for the unsettled state of American politics. The family said it was not planning to alter its travel plans, but knew of other Canadian friends who had decided they would not be visiting the states this year.
The hospitality industry does have recent evidence of what it means to miss out on Canadian business. The Covid-19 pandemic shut down the borders, and when closure was lifted the industry benefited from a noticeable uptick in traffic.
Farrell said she’s hopeful the results of the recent kerfuffle will be minimal, and that the hard feelings won’t last. “I don’t think it’s going to tank the economy,” she said. “They love the mountains and lakes, and I think they’ll start missing them.”
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You mean like when the boarder was completely closed to Canada and yet we had a great tourism. Stop fear mongering it’s a bad look.
When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Just wait and see how things start to unfold; we are three weeks in to a new administration that has expanded executive power by a staggering amount. I hope you like the taste of crow, if you have read project 2025 the goal is simple. Stagnate the economy so the wealthiest can swoop in and buy distressed assets from the middle class at a discount.
Its amazing how this is all public information you can read and educate yourself on, yet some people are cheering on their own future hardship.
“expanding executive power by a staggering amount”? President Biden issued 162 executive orders? He pardoned people that had not even committed crimes. I found that to be an expansion of executive power.
yes, totally agree. stupid games. And tariffs could be the worst game of all. Could result in losses on both sides. If the 25 per cent becomes reality. But Canadiens are already preparing for an economic punch. They are in the middle of a crisis, (affordable housing)(living wage) and can see their friends, neighbors, communities sinking. When they look south of the border for help, support, words to remind of all we have, in all we share in common, they are greeted by a big real estate agent who wants to buy their “house”. Seems they do not want to play the tariff game, but (if they must) they will fight to win.
a) show strong national ( Oh Canada) unity b) post labels on products ( see liquor stores)
c) assist travel agencies to book alternative choices So far Canada 3 USA 0
stay strong folks, keep warm.
I don’t believe that this article is the case of fear mongering, because planing for possible future effects of government policy on your business, whether you agree with those policies or not, is a smart move.
Thank you Adirondacks for for bringing up these concerns.
If the tourism was so great during Covid as you state, would you please provide the data? Otherwise Your comment seems wrongfully dismissive.
And remember, this is not Covid, you’re not going to have an influx of people fleeing the cities because of tariffs!
We’re just gonna have less Canadian tourism. It makes sense, it’s pretty cut and dry.
If this is the case then our focus should be on what we can do to lure other non-Canadians in to fill the void. All the articles I keep seeing are just about how we expect less Canadian tourists (we get that), so what do we do about it? People in this country need to stop whining and start figuring out how to thrive despite challenges.
Why fix what ain’t broke? Here’s a brilliant idea. Call your Congress person. Tell them you aren’t happy about the nonsense which caused this mess in the first place. There’s no logical reason Canadians were attacked and driven away.
Quebec is French not anglophile they should not be lumped in with the Ontario riff raff who see America as easy money. My family owned property in Quebec for decades. Through the suppression of French language in schools and the derogatory bigotry toward French Catholic families. In spite of which Quebec prospered and then was saddled in the morass of socialized universal helth care, having to subsidize the poorer eastern provinces. Je me souviens (I remember).
You must not have seen the 4 nations faceoff where the Bell Centre sang the national anthem louder than ever before. Canada is unified.
What are you talking about??? Quebec is the biggest recipient of transfer payments in Canada. It has been for decades.
you are all going to be seeing a lot more of this, its only getting started.
impose tariffs on your next door neighbour and closest ally to cripple the Canadian economy based on “fentanyl and illegal immigration” ? Threaten our national sovereignty by implying we should become an American state?
Canadians are angry as hell. Everyone I know has cancelled travel plans, going out of their way to NOT purchase American made goods. I’ve even informed American family members that i’m done and will not travel while this farce of an administration is in power.
We are small in terms of power compared to you, but don’t dismiss individual consumers power to band together to impose as much hurt as possible on you.
We can no longer trust you as friends, allies or neighbours
I’d like to encourage our Canadian friends to understand the shakedown is also a deliberate attack on New York state (and the other democratic northern border states) by our “president.” By cancelling your plans, etc. you are actually doing his bidding as planned. Hurting our local economy is the feature, not the bug.
I doubt he wants to punish Republican Elise Stefanik’s district. She’s one of his biggest cheerleaders.
I am a North Country New Yorker who agrees that our US government is currently crazy. However, I plan on visiting Canada this summer to visit the areas my family as well as my husband’s family came from. My husband has been wearing his Canada hat everywhere nowadays.
We will gladly spend OUR tourism dollars there. We’re not alone in feeling this way.
Damn!! Well said fellow Canuck!
We love camping in the NYS parks and it’s super close for us. However when your Pres trashes us and wants to cripple our economy to basically makes capitulate to becoming a 51st state it’s insulting as hell. Never trust you guys again ever. Even if you get the Dems in next round, then you could see a Trump Jr in office and it starts over. Worse is if they pass legislation to allow DJT to run 4 more years. FYI there’s already a Bill for that to ammend your Constitution to allow a 3rd term.
You are exactly correct! Trump threatening a 25% tariff on its largest trading partner is not the equivalent of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor… IT IS SO MUCH WORSE! Bombing a dozen or so warships had a negligible effect on the US economy. Trump threatened your entire economy with these tariffs! His threat if enacted is likely end up with virtually millions unemployed, currency devaluation and huge budget deficits. In short massive economic warfare on a Trumped-up excuse! And threatening to annex you as the 51st State, ending your Sovereignty??? This is akin to Putin’s attempts to swallow up Ukraine! Canadians , please do your best to not support the US with this bullying regime with even ONE of your hard-earned loonies!! #boycottusa
Maybe don’t vote for a party enabling a narcissist that threatens to annex us next time.
I think the lesson here, if you kick a longtime friend in the groin, don’t expect them to say thank you.
“Had great tourism”, Guess what? There were limited options then. The High Peaks were like a second home to me. No longer. Stefanik appears joyful driving tourism away from her district.
And if you were there in Upstate NY you saw Trump signs lining the roads and streets . In all the small towns. When the US economy collapses and your businesses ruined you won’t have anyone to blame but yourselves.
While the border was closed to Canada during covid, and US citizens weren’t working or were on pause, or trying to get away from their confinement in the cities, there was a huge increase in US citizens visiting the Adks which more than made up for no one from Canada. This lasted at least a year or more. US traffic has since returned to normal pre-covid levels, so a loss in Canada traffic is simply a loss in visitors and revenue at this point.
This is only very anecdotal at this point so this all about what might happen, like most of the “news” now. Like someone said in the article you don’t even have a months worth of data yet to look at. So it’s only 5% of the visitors coming from Canada according to ROOST, that’s surprising. Pleasantly I guess, given the circumstances.
When your livelihood depends on tourism, you need to be able to predict both short and long-term trends. You can’t wait for 12 months of hard data before adjusting your business plan. Hindsight is useless. So yeah – people are nervous.
I agree, I think stories need to start being about what you should do. These are just pointing out the obvious and giving people this forum to be critical, makes them feel better I guess? There are very few stories here about how so many people are very happy with all these moves (not me). As usual it looks like everyone is opposed, how did this guy get elected. What is the new plan to not have 12 years of this if Vance is next. I guess the democrats will try and connect with these other constituents later?
This is crazy. US and Canada, don’t mess with the ADKS.
Good. Less people and crowding on overcrowded trail heads. Also, this is a complete overreaction. Remember in 2017, everyone freaked out about the China trade wars and tariffs. If you recall, nothing bad happened and our economy boomed. So much so, the only executive order that Joe Biden didn’t redact were the Trump tariffs. Move to Canada if you want a liberal government. The US is finally waking up, and if you’re against a fair economic policy, sorry to say, you’re in the minority. America has groaned for years as small towns and cities were decimated by liberal economics. Not anymore. The poeple too smart for thier own good can complain all they want. Go back to your Harvard classroom.
Interesting take. Correct me if I’m wrong but have there not been 12 years of republican government and 12 years of democratic government in the 21st century? Didn’t the first 8 years of republican government lead to an economic crash that actually led to a suspension of presidential campaigning in order to correct, leaving the subsequent Democratic government to clean up the mess? Didn’t the subsequent republican government also leave a smoking hole where the economy was by the end of it, brought on by a totally mismanaged pandemic? And wasn’t the trade agreement with Canada, that you are apparently crying about being unfair, negotiated by Trump himself during his first term? It would appear your grasp of facts, history and economy is tenuous at best.
Bingo.
The better fact is that 12 of the last 16 years have been democrats. Nice try pulling Bush into the realm of things. He’s basically a Democrat economically. Neo- Conservatism isn’t conservatism.
Cool, if the facts don’t fit your narrative, pretend you can change the facts! You’re good at this.,,
A Canadian canceled a trip to the Adirondacks. The ripple effects will be devastating.
Mike
This summer will be my 29th year as a seasonal camper at the same campsite in the Adirondacks, where about half the seasonals are Canadian – like me
This place has become my second home. The people there have become my second family. My kids grew up there.
It is my absolute favourite place in the world.
For the first time in 3 decades, I have started to ask myself if my days there are limited.
You may shrug that off and not care that there will now be “2 Canadians who have cancelled a trip to the Adirondacks”.
But beyond the fact that “2” is actually exponentially growing (and not just in the ‘Dacks – Canadians are cancelling travel, conferences, shopping etc across your country.
The economic impact of Montreal and beyond on Plattsburgh alone is $1.5 BILLION per year (source: Town of Plattsburgh).
My partner’s county house is right on the border with Vermont, where we do almost all our grocery shopping. I can’t tell you how often I stop and look at the spectacular Green Mountains, and *every single time* I think “Wow it’s truly amazing – the only thing that separates our two countries is a field of corn”.
Our two countries have been like family for so long. We sometimes disagree, but we always make up and we have always had each other’s backs.
But this time is different. We don’t only feel hurt, insulted, slighted – we feel we are being threatened and bullied by what was until a few weeks ago our best friend and closest ally.
Not only Canadians – much of the world feels terrified about what might come next and worried that this utter chaos and ‘new world order’ of BFFs Trump & Putin will plunge us all into unnecessary hostilities with catastrophic economic and human rights consequences, including for – and perhaps particularly for – the US.
There are surely better ways to do this.
It’s just so very sad.
Okay chicken little. If the Canadians are so bigoted we really don’t need their attitude here. BTW…. Who stuck up for the Canadian truck drivers?
Truck drivers who blocked a major street in the nations capital for a month? Try that in any USA city. Let me know how it works out. They could have legally protested on Parliament Hill. Do you even know the meaning of the word “bigoted”?
Please don’t listen to Mike. There are too many just like him. Please know, that many of us feel the way you do, we just don’t yell at everyone who feels differently. I don’t blame any Canadian who feels insulted as I am insulted for you and I encourage all Canadians to fight back any way they can. Hate the government not the people
” I encourage all Canadians to fight back any way they can.”
So the Canadians should take up arms over tariffs? What’s wrong with people!?
when you have the Mexican Cartels operating in the greater Plattsburgh area controlling the human trafficking on the northern border and trafficking Chinese-manufactured fentanyl that has killed 100,00 Americans, the picture becomes bigger than recreational tourism. Clearly, we would like to see the current President act in a manner that is responsible and not embarrassing, but the border issue is an American crisis. There is a massive difference between having a Canadian guest cancel a reservation to a recreational mountain lodge and a family losing a teenager to fentanyl or a child trafficked into the US for purposes that are unthinkable to everyday people. Both political parties have caused this problem by letting it go unchecked for so long. But please don’t compare the loss of a room reservation to the loss of life and the pain a family endures losing a loved one to fentanyl.
In case your interested in truth, the majority of human trafficking in the north country is carried out by family members and other local people. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt however and assume you mean human smuggling.
Mexican cartels in Plattsburgh? Come on, doesn’t warrant a response.
Approximately 1% of all fentanyl seized by border patrol came from Canada. 1%. Carried mostly by American citizens.
There were significantly fewer than 100,000 fentanyl related overdose deaths nationally, significantly less than that related to Chinese manufactured fentanyl. None of them good.
But you know what is an actual epidemic in the North Country, which is directly connected to our human trafficking problem? Meth. Ofc that is manufactured locally so, not cause for concern?
Agreed, the northern border has little to do with fentanyl. But, some do have a point on national security. Many people on the “terror watch list” have crossed at the Canadian border. Also, I saw this the SL paper just recently. In the “Swanson Sector” – Adirondacks and New England crossing – there were 20,000 undocumented immigrants apprehended in 2024, the equivalent of the previous 17 years combined. Something is going on at the northern border.
Well said!
Driving away Canadian tourism is going solve the USA’s decades long drug problem? Please explain your logic. This approach may very well exacerbate it when small tourist town employees get laid off.
Tim, This is a disappointing piece for the lack of facts and the choice of poor language to obscure the real issues. Your wrote, “the agitated state of the current U.S. politics”, and “the president’s recent offensive and disrespectful behavior toward Canada…” followed by “recent kerfuffle.”
Kerfuffle? That’s the word you’d describe when the leader of one country threatens to annex a neighboring country? A country that has been it’s longest standing ally and trading partner?
If the leader of any foreign country referred to the president as “Mayor Trump” or “Governor” instead of his elected title, if a leader of any country repeatedly “joked” that the United States should become part of it, there would be threats of nuclear annihilation. Do you forget how America referred to fries as “Freedom Fries” because of the personal offense taken when France wouldn’t support the invasion of Iraq in 2003? Americans were further discouraged from visiting France at the time. And Canadians are expected to be walked all over?
Canada is the same county whose ordinary, everyday citizens of Gander, Newfoundland took in over 6500 stranded US passengers who could not re-enter their own country on September 11, 2001 because the FAA shut down the airspace. Numerous Canadian cities did this, because that’s what friends do. To have your best friend then declare you should be taken over along with Greenland and Mexico is beyond the pale.
In response to the comments: this statistic is from the US Goverment: US border authorities seized 21,889 pounds of fentanyl in the 2024 fiscal year. Of that amount, 43 pounds were seized at the Canadian border = about 0.2% In comparison, 21,148 pounds were seized at the Mexican border, about 96.6%. (the rest is from other countries) Fentanyl is a real and tragic problem right now, but Canada is NOT even close to being a primary source of the problem in the United States.
Couldn’t have said it better, Chris.
You can strengthen the border and reduce fentanyl deaths without needlessly driving away Canadian tourists. It’s not just one cancellation, it’s tens of thousands. Do you really think driving away foreign tourism is going to solve the fentanyl crisis, USA’s drug problem which has existed for decades? What will disillusioned tourism employees do when laid off? They may indulge in drugs.
“Canadian travel cancellations start adding up to economic loss for Adirondack businesses”
Again, this headline is misleading at best. It could say:
Canadian travel cancellations could start adding up to economic loss for Adirondack businesses
Not, saying it won’t but it hasn’t yet, journalism isn’t about a few stories floating around, at least it didn’t used to be.
If I was Canada, I would join the EU where my vast resources would be eagerly accepted and my democratic values and tolerance were appreciated. If I was Canadian I would never step foot in America again.
Every country has the responsibility to control its own border, If things are entering that country it is because that country is unable to properly screen and inspect those things entering. The responsibility lies with the country itself and blaming other countries for its own shortcomings is stupid. Trump loves to incorrectly blame others without taking any responsibility and those that support him are as much of the problem as he is. Reap what you sow and live with a dictator in the USA now.
Trump threatening a 25% tariff on its largest trading partner is not the equivalent of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor… IT IS SO MUCH WORSE! Bombing a dozen or so warships had a negligible effect on the US economy. Trump threatened Canada’s entire economy with these tariffs! His threat if enacted is likely to result in virtually millions unemployed, currency devaluation and huge budget deficits. In short , massive economic warfare on a Trumped-up excuse! And threatening to annex Canada as the 51st State, ending their Sovereignty??? This is akin to Putin’s attempts to swallow up Ukraine!!
5% change in visitors is probably within margin of error for their measurements lol- and this whole article bases its argument based on one months of data.
Everyone stop overreacting to our leaders, Trump and Trudeau’s comments . We are neighbors and shouldn’t allow their comments/threats to separate us. I have spoken to my Canadian neighbors and they aren’t always happy with Trudeau’s running of Canada and we here in the USA aren’t always happy with our leaders running of things. I plan on visiting my neighbors in Canada, because I truly feel free and safe in Canada and hope that our Canadian neighbors will feel the same. Thank you.
Unfortunately the Truth of the matter is that there is nothing within the Disrespect and threats that are directed to Canada by the current representative of the American people that would or should make a Canadian feel free or safe to visit the USA during the current instability of the USA. Anyone that dares to visit the USA that does not conform to TRUMPS idea of what a person is should be careful. Those that no longer accepted as persons in the USA because of recent Trumps directions can certainly find an understanding home in Canada.
If Canada, Mexico, the EU and other countries could bite the bullet and cease ALL TRADE with the USA , for a month, including oil, power and electricity as well as food then, maybe, one could get Das unter fuhrer’s attention. You have to make it super painful before Trump and company will back down. Thank God for the Second Amendment!
I have been saying that too!
Comprehensive tariffs are simply a bad idea. I share this belief with Senator McConnell. Targeted ones can be a fair balance to unfair trade practices, but I spent years in trade with Canadian firms and I am unaware of any unfair practices, certainly none that would warrant even the threat of across the board tariffs.
There is no such thing as a stand alone national economy – not US nor Canada nor Mexico nor China, nor anyone else I can think of.
Throwing the spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks is no substitute for trade policy.
The Canadian government is telling their people to not travel to the US. But they are advertising on television almost every evening I watch for us to come to Canada. That’s interesting.
Unfortunately this article, in an apparent attempt to avoid politics (as if that were possible in reporting a matter of international politics), has committed a very serious error of omission. Trump has, repeatedly and without provocation, openly called for the ANNEXATION OF A SOVEREIGN NATION and in the most insulting of ways. We have all heard it (and are hopefully extremely agitated by it, or at least embarrassed), and can all easily verify this in any media outlet of our choosing, no matter the political bubble or echo-chamber we restrict ourselves to. Why was this critical—in fact, historically terrifying—element left unmentioned, as though it never happened—indeed, continues to happen every time Trump doubles down? Why somehow fail to mention this, while purportedly attempting to understand the situation? (On the principle of charity we should prefer to see it as mistake, but the possibility now exists that the omission is an indication of the author’s own political commitments.) Understand this: tariffs or no, and even without Trump’s blatant and repeated insulting of a sovereign nation by mocking it as an American “state” and its prime minister (elected by a sovereign people in one of the world’s great democracies) as “governor”, his repeated call for the annexation of Canada, and his doubling down on that when pressed to clarify, is shockingly close to a declaration of war. (Yes, repeatedly doubling down on a call to annex a foreign, independent, sovereign country is akin to a declaration of war and an intention to attack if resisted.) Now, go ahead and add the tariffs to that and maybe you will understand what has happened: Trump, out of the blue and without provocation, has viciously gut-punched Canada, one of its most tolerant and staunchest allies economically, politically, and in almost every way, and threatened it with nothing less than political, cultural, economic, and historical EXTINCTION. This is not a “why on earth are they mad at us?” moment. This is not a two-way, valid points on both sides, truth-is-in-the-middle situation. This is an unprecedented, unilateral aggression by the President of the United States against the sovereign nation of Canada. Americans should not be puzzled by Canadians’ negative reactions to this; certainly no American should be angered by Canadians’ negative reactions (unless all sense of justice—in fact, all common sense—has been abandoned); and of course most sound-thinking Americans, especially those with ties to Canada and Canadians, are neither puzzled nor angered by Canadians’ negative reactions. Let us all, Americans and Canadians alike, direct our anger where it belongs: at the extremely dangerous, illegal, and openly-imperialist ambitions of Trump and all who support him in this intolerable aggression. And let us, together, loudly demand that he cease, immediately. Even then, even if Trump abandons his call for war against Canada today, the damage he has done to Canada-USA relations will take years to heal—no matter how kind, patient, and polite most Canadians will continue to be to us even as they resist the Trump administration’s aggressions and take steps to defend their sovereignty and very existence as an independent nation.
While border security and pronoun frustration were reportedly among the highest concerns this election, the promised chaos (in addition to retribution for all slights real or imagined) was repeatedly advertised to voters. It would be frustrating to think that any of us are now surprised as the impacts of our choices begin trickling in, highlighted by articles such as this.
No doubt the policies specifically targeting inflation, that other concern, will be forthcoming once the billionaires, elected or otherwise, finish looking after the interests of lower- and middle-income Americans with tariffs and tax cuts. Buckle up.
Why did Kristy apologize!! We elected Pres Trump and he’s doing the job we elected him for!!! Shame on you for apologizing to those Canadian visitors!
Really? You elected him to cry foul regarding trade with Canada the HE HIMSELF negotiated? That is actually better for the USA than Canada? Did you also elect him to threaten invading a foreign nation and making them the 51st state? Gee, let me think. Why does that sound so familiar? Ah, yes, Russia, Putin, the Crimea, and all of Ukraine. Good for you, Kristy. I am sorry too and plan to spend my travel dollars in Canada.
This is a real shame that Canadian / American relations are at a crossroads because of our illustrious president who is making all these moves and Congress is just sitting back and avoiding any oversight. Hurting people for no reason is not the way to govern. Canada has been a great neighbor and friend of ours for so long and for someone like Trump to come in and do what he is doing is pathetic. Good thing he has the best intentions for places like Ukraine, the Panama Canal and Mexico.
Laurie:
I completely agree with you.
Given the severe leftward turn New York has taken, its one-party government and its rotten economy I moved to Tennessee in 2022 and never looked back.
I hope Elise Stefanik remains in office so the Republicans maintain can hold onto the House. In the meantime I’ll work hard to make sure TN’s lone Democrat Congressman is defeated and that the rest of the Congressional seats remain in Republican control.
Canadian tourism doesn’t play a significant role in TN’s economy so less of it won’t be noticed but Canadians are always welcome here and we will treat them respectfully.
As for President Trump, I voted for him three times and I pray that he serves out his full term. (I also like Fetterman, even though he’s a Democrat, because he supports Israel and is open to working with Trump.)
Stay warm.
Charles:
NY has not taken a ‘severe leftward turn’, in fact the Republican share of the vote has actually increased statewide since 2012. As for Elise who supposedly ‘backs the blue’ (just not the Jan 6th blue), thanks to her severe Trump-ward turn, despite having been a harsh critic in a previous life, seems destined to be confirmed for her UN post, though her congressional seat should not be at risk of flipping. Regarding Fetterman and his support of Israel, I agree with you. If only some of our other historic and strategic allies who have stuck with us through wars, terrorist attacks etc., were shown the same unquestioned and deserved respect and loyalty…the list is long but Canada is one that comes to mind.
Charles:
Not only has NY not taken a ‘severe leftward turn’, the Republican share of the vote has actually increased statewide since 2012. As for Elise who supposedly ‘backs the blue’ (just not the Jan 6th blue), thanks to her severe Trump-ward turn, despite having been a harsh critic in a previous life, seems destined to be confirmed for her UN post, though her congressional seat is in no risk of flipping.
Regarding Fetterman and his support of Israel, I agree with you. If only some of our other historic and strategic allies who have stuck with us through wars, terrorist attacks etc., were shown the same unquestioned and deserved respect and loyalty…the list is long but Canada is one that comes to mind.
Here’s the problem. Canada has become to reliant on American markets. 80% of Canandian exports go south. If Trump imposes a 25% tariff Canada will plunge into a recession. Pierre Trudeau once told the Washington press club that Canada is like a mouse sharing a bed with an elephant. “No matter how friendly an even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. In saying this I think it would be in Canada’s best interest in trying to work with Trump instead of bashing him. Trump is right when he says that the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada. You can boycott all you want. It really won’t put any strain on the U.S.. As for Canadian’s not visiting the Adirondacks.?Why are you doing this? New Yorkers have a great relationship with you. Why take it out on some mom and pop buisness? Canada really doesn’t have a choice, but to work with the Trump administration. And lastly Canadian’s you really need to find a way to be less reliant on the U.S..
“Trump is right when he says that the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada. You can boycott all you want.” USA imports 4.5 million barrels of oil a day from Canada. What do you think would happen if that was shut off? Half of USA aluminum is imported, most of that from Canada. Grassley was begging for a tariff exemption on potash. Paying 25% more for fertilizer would decimate farmers. Not visiting the USA sends a message Canada isn’t happy being treated like crap. When that mom and pop business is losing business they will contact their member of Congress and ask, “What the hell is the point of this nonsense?”?