Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Mar 22 2025 09:29:00

> RM> It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars.
> RM> Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there
> RM> by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money
> RM> would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is
> RM> that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers?

> AT>These numbers sound like they are highly manipulatable. It could all be
> based
>   > a survey that was taken on 10 Canadians from the streets of Vancouver.

> That info came strictly from counting the drop in the number of cars
> crossing the border and plane passengers heading to the USA compared
> to this same time last year. And there have been Thousands of people
> who have cancelled trips to the USA even when it cost them thousands
> of dollars to walk away from a scheduled vacation in the USA.
> Travel agencies say that trips they usually arrange have dropped by
> over 40%.

> There are American businesses near the border who say they are
> looking at bankruptcy due to the drop in Canadian day trippers
> they rely on to survive, which is just sad. It seems that the
> only way to get back at Trump is to cause enough grief there that
> he can't continue to ignore the harm his policies are doing.

This is difficult to miss as it has been all of the US news, too.  Traffic
at border crossings is down, business in border towns is down.  I even
posted an article (but maybe not in this echo) about Port Roberts, WA, an
American town that relies heavily on Canadian border traffic because it has
NO border with the rest of the USA.

If people down here are not hearing about this, and about how companies
down here are going to have to raise prices on us to offset all that is
proposed, it is because their heads are in the sand.


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