Summertime, and the living isn’t easy for U.S. workers dependent on Canadian tourism. Boycotting travel is a trade irritant unlike any other, and one the American ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, sheepishly raised during an interview with CTV earlier this month in Vancouver.
Canadians are exercising this political defiance in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada. Leger polling suggests 67 per cent of those who decided to boycott travel to the U.S. in 2026 have done so because of the political climate and tensions between the two countries. An expensive U.S. dollar also makes it easier to say no.
I don’t agree with the permanence the author predicts.
Canadian visits to the US have been trending higher and I suspect our weakening standard of living keeps as many home as politics.
