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National Post
2 days ago
- Business
- National Post
Number of Canadians returning from U.S. trips down again in May: StatCan
OTTAWA — Canadians continued to avoid making trips to the U.S. in May, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada. Article content The agency says return trips by Canadian residents by air from the U.S. in May fell 24.2 per cent compared with a year ago to 488,800, while return trips from overseas countries rose 9.8 per cent to 1.1 million. Meanwhile, Canadian resident return trips from the U.S. by automobile totalled 1.3 million, down 38.1 per cent compared with May 2024. Article content Article content Article content Canadians have avoided travel to the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs and '51st state' threats over the past few months. Article content Article content
CTV News
22-05-2025
- CTV News
Canadian car trips returning from U.S. down 31 per cent in March
Vehicles approach the United States border crossing as seen from Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., Thursday, April 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Travel between Canada and the United States continues to steeply drop, new data from Statistics Canada shows. In March this year, Canadian residents made 4.3 million trips returning from abroad, a 14.9 per cent decrease from the same month in 2024, in what the agency calls the third consecutive month of year-to-year declines. Among the steepest drops were returning trips by car over the Canada-U.S. land border, down 31.4 per cent to 1.7 million trips in March. Trips to Canada among U.S. residents also fell, down 6.6 per cent from March 2024. Statistics Canada notes that on a seasonally adjusted basis, which accounts for calendar effects like holidays and the number of weekends in a month, U.S. travel to Canada rose slightly, up 2.8 per cent between February and March. Return trips for Canadian travellers declined even accounting for those quirks, however, down 7.1 per cent overall and down 11.7 per cent among automobile trips to the United States.
National Post
12-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
Statistics Canada says Canadian-resident return trips from U.S. down again in April
Statistics Canada says preliminary figures for April continue to point to a sharp drop in return trips from the United States by Canadian residents. Article content Article content The agency says the number of Canadian-residents returning by automobile from the United States in April fell on a year-over-year basis for the fourth consecutive month as it dropped 35.2 per cent to 1.2 million. Article content Canadians have cancelled trips to the U.S. in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods and his desire for Canada to become the 51st state. Article content Article content
