Canadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year’s first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic.
Over the past six months, Canadians returned from just 8 million trips, well below the 11 million entries during the same period in 2024, according to Statistics Canada data released Thursday. In June, Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the US plunged 33.1% from a year ago.
The sixth straight monthly drop underscores a movement among Canadians who are deliberately avoiding US vacations and products to protest President