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    1 in 4 Canadians say they avoided travel to the United States because of feelings towards President Trump. Many think less of friends or family who do. - Abacus Data
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    1 in 4 Canadians say they avoided travel to the United States because of feelings towards President Trump. Many think less of friends or family who do. – Abacus Data

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    1. DaOffensiveChicken on

      I always had a hunch the people screaming about boycotting the us were a fringe minority good to see data to back it up

    2. innsertnamehere on

      I have no problem with people choosing to boycott – I do think people should refrain from judging others on it though.

      I personally haven’t “banned” myself from going to the US but it’s definitely not a priority either right now. I typically go 2-4 times a year, I haven’t been since September 2024 at this point. I’ll likely be there once or twice this year… but not going out of my way for sure.

    3. Asluckwouldnthaveit on

      I don’t think less of people that choose to go. I just don’t feel comfortable going there myself. I’m a white guy with a white wife and white kids. The risk is low. But I just don’t want to support them with my money.

    4. Doorman16 on

      The whole movement that started around 1 year ago regarding Buy Canadian/not travelling to the US was based on doing what the individual could do; doing what you felt comfortable with and with no shame to fellow Canadians as we all have to live the way we seem fit.

      Regardless of how much worse I consider the situation I still just do what I can and try to make a bigger impact – mostly for my sanity. Getting upset with fellow Canadians over what they do or don’t do doesn’t help me at all.

      edit – corrected bogger to bigger

    5. SteveDougson on

      Sportsnet always has a little segment during away games where they show the Blue Jay fans that have (presumably) traveled to go see the game. They’re celebrated for supporting the team while abroad.

      But it felt so different this year. It felt like they were outing traitors. I’d be sitting at home eating some berries I paid an extra dollar for because they weren’t American while watching these people spend their vacation dollars there. It made me feel the same frustration of using a paper straw while billionaires take a 2-minute chartered flight to skip a 20 minute drive.

    6. AnchezSanchez on

      As a naturalized Canadian I genuinely do think less of my fellow citizens when they travel there for anything other than work. Maybe visiting family gets a pass. But just going there for a leisure break? Fuck off. How unpatriotic are you? If this were to happen in Scotland, and England were the antagonist you can absolutely guarantee that number would be greater than 50%.

    7. Asleepyjester on

      Good, ive never been to the states because life just didn’t allow, now ill never go because the country cant be trusted in any way, they cant even treat their own citizens with basic humanity prior to this. If people willing travel into the states now for vacation, pleasure, leisure etc I 100% think less of you. I have friends who have gone and I was vocal that they are still my friends, are important to me and can make their own decisions as adults but I very much expected better from them. They knew they were making a decision people wouldn’t agree with and told me to keep it quiet which I did cause noy my business, but when you are afraid to say where youre going, maybe you shouldn’t be going there.

      And before anyone moves goal posts talking about how other countries people travel to treat their citizenry, this is not a poll about them, yes there are plenty of places people go every day from Canada with abysmal records, but they aren’t our neighbors and arent threating us with annexation after we stood beside them through some absolutely horrendous decisions.

    8. spaceporter on

      I went to a concert in Detroit back in April (AC/DC). I didn’t want, but the tickets were pricy and purchased a year in advance. We ended up shortening the trip to there for lunch, dinner and concert and then back the same night instead of the planned two to three days.

      I’ve since cancelled plans to see the Browns at home and a couple trips to watch the Leafs on the road.

    9. DesharnaisTabarnak on

      Those questions are bad. They’re framed in terms of how Canadians “feel” towards Trump or how they think they’re being treated while ignoring the blithering obvious truths of tariffs, increased surveillance, arbitrary arrests, overt xenophobia and invasion threats. It makes it seem like we’re avoiding the US because our feelings got hurt, when in practice it’s because we don’t want to pay out of our asses while being entered into a draw for a disappearance at a GEO group prison.

    10. jimmifli on

      Forgive me friends for I have sinned. I’m flying to Argentina next month and couldn’t find any affordable options that didn’t have a US stop. So I’m briefly headed to Houston for a couple of hours.

      I also bought 5 grapefruits from Texas last week because they were 5 for $5. In my defence that’s pretty cheap and I think they must have lost money on them.

      But otherwise my boycott has been pretty solid.

    11. mummified_cosmonaut on

      The United States is too large and much too ideologically diverse to think of in this way.

      Foregoing travel to a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican president since Reagan is ridiculous. It would be like cancelling a trip to France because you don’t like Giorgia Meloni.

      And if we have learned nothing else from this fiasco, vanishingly few Canadians are ever detained in the United States for immigration reasons.