Canadians spent $3.3 billion less on travel to the United States in 2025 compared to 2024, according to figures released by Statistics Canada.
The decline resulted in a total spend of $18.1 billion on visits to the U.S. last year, with the decrease driven by lower spending on leisure-related visits, which fell by $2.2 billion to $12.1 billion.
Ottawa’s quota for Chinese-built electric vehicles has passed a milestone nobody in Ottawa was aiming for. Global Affairs Canada’s utilization report now shows 9,235 vehicles cleared into the country under the 24,500-unit first window that runs March 1 to August 31 — about 37.7% of the allocation, with 15,265 permits still on the table and roughly six weeks left on the clock.
Two months ago the number was 2,910. The acceleration is real. What’s more interesting is what’s inside it.
OTTAWA – The Conservative shadow minister for Canada-U.S. relations is calling on Ottawa to provide its negotiation plan with U.S. President Donald Trump at an emergency meeting.
Shuv Majumdar says in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney that the Conservatives want an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade next week, and Ottawa needs to table its written plans at the hearings.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she does not plan to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods with an alcohol ban.
She told her provincewide call-in radio show Saturday she is leaving it up to retailers and consumers to decide how to stock their shelves and whether to drink American products with the looming tariffs.
“People should understand that the Americans have not banned a single product from Canada from going into the United States, so it’s a pretty extraordinary measure to put a ban in place,” she said.
Canada is mostly unaffected by a new U.S. tariff ostensibly targeting goods made with slave labour, business leaders, lawyers and economists say.
Late Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that dozens of countries, including Canada, are getting hit with a new tariff because they either don’t have any system to bar goods with slave labour, or aren’t applying anti-slave labour rules effectively.
Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom are among the countries getting hit with a 10 per cent tariff, while other nations are seeing a 12.5 per cent levy.
Many Canadians have rightly criticized the Trump administration for its erratic and punitive approach to trade. It is difficult to accept that the American economy — which prospered enormously from global commerce — now treats international trade as a failed experiment.
Here’s the thing about awful, soul-destroying relationships: sometimes, you come out on the other end a stronger, better person.
It’s hard to see the benefits when you’re constantly being lied to, cheated on and disparaged. It’s emotionally exhausting and you know you need to get out, but you signed a lease together and you need his income to make the payments. Plus, you think you love him.
So you ride out his unpredictable mood swings and grit your teeth as you watch him smother his steak in ketchup. You don’t know how you’ll survive – but somehow, you do.
Doug Ford is mad, and he has every right to be. While his province suffered from wildfires and evacuations, a lineup of American politicians chose to criticize and politicize Ontario’s response, rather than offer to help. To add insult to injury, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a new set of unjustifiable tariffs on Monday that disproportionately harm Ontario’s economy.
The latest salvo in US President Donald Trump’s freewheeling trade war could have disastrous effects for Canadian business. But the new tariff threats may also open up trade opportunities elsewhere, with China and the EU in a strong position to benefit.
Trump’s planned 50% tariff on a range of imported goods ranges from wine to hockey sticks but does not include other key sectors such as energy, potash and fish.
It is expected to impact about 5%, or $20 billion (€17.5 billion) worth, of goods and “the impact could be devastating for the people in businesses involved,” Julian Karaguesian, an economics lecturer from Canada’s McGill University, told DW.
Mark Carney and the Syrupeans are bleating again.
After spending the better part of the past twelve months jet-setting around the world, trying to drum up support for his New World Order, and, while out of the Northern Hemisphere, making sure to tell everyone just how bad the United States sucks, while sucking up to Donald Trump the second he comes home empty-handed, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is now in the F.O. part of his F.A. tour.
Donald Trump has once again inspired anger and confusion in US allies and trading partners as he imposed a wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing an expiring global duty introduced earlier this year.
The new measures effectively replace blanket 10% tariffs that Trump imposed in February. The US supreme court ruled many of those were illegal. The new levies come in at between 10% and 12.5% on countries including the UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China and the 27 countries that make up the EU.
Carney’s bewildered because his ChiCom pals are big on slave labour.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer grew up in a mobile home in Paradise, Calif. He insists that it wasn’t in a mobile home park, it was just a mobile home. That should tell you something about the man charged with implementing Donald Trump’s trade policies.
His mother was a Wells Fargo teller and his father moved from job to job, including a stint in plastic injection moulding, “before those jobs went to Asia.” A “National Geographic” subscription was the family’s window on the wider world.
Interestingly, Ambassador and Deputy United States Trade Representative Rick Switzer appeared on the YouTube channel of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Ambassador is a veteran diplomat with decades of experience. He has also founded ProjX Technology Consulting and taught graduate courses at the National Intelligence University. Mr. Switzer has echoed the same critique of Prime Minister Mark Carney as I have already published. In short, he stated that Carney has made the negotiations between Canada and the US personal, has “gone out of his way to be antagonistic,” and that this approach is “political malpractice.”
TORONTO—Prime Minister Mark Carney swept to power promising an “elbows out” stance against President Trump’s tariff threats and rhetoric, vowing he would never accept a bad trade deal.
Sixteen months later, Carney says he has avoided making a bad deal but critics say it has come at a cost: A series of trade concessions to the U.S. that are beginning to add up.
Carney has scrapped a digital-services tax affecting U.S. tech companies, rolled back retaliatory levies and halted streaming regulations opposed by American companies.
Carney was “swept” to a minority government, the WSJ is not a Trump fan.
The Trump administration’s announcement of a new round of tariffs on Canadian goods may be less of a reprisal over trade barriers and more about gaining leverage in CUSMA negotiations, trade watchers suggest.
Whether the measures are legal are not is open to debate, but that may not matter because for now they put Canada in a difficult position of whether to strike back and risk even further heightening the trade war or to try playing along with President Donald Trump’s game.
