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The drop comes almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.

For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.

New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.

    Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.

    I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.