The number of Canadians paying a visit to the United States dropped by nearly a third last year amid the U.S. trade war and President Donald Trump’s continued assertion that Canada should become the country’s 51st state.
Data released Monday by Statistics Canada showed that Canadians made 22.9 million visits to the U.S. by car or air travel in 2025, compared to 31.9 million such visits the previous year. That’s a drop of 28 percent.
And it cuts both ways: American trips across the northern border fell 5 percent, with 17.8 million such trips, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Bloomberg reported that Canadian travel to the United States started falling right after Trump took office in January 2025. That month started a 12-month (and counting) streak of year-over-year declines in Canadian travel to the U.S. Seven in 10 Canadians would be uncomfortable traveling to the United States this winter, according to an October poll by the Angus Reid Institute, Bloomberg reported.
Trump’s border crackdown is also helping cause the decline, according to the report. Stories of Canadians being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have spread through the media, and some professional organizations have warned members against travel to the United States, according to Bloomberg.
