The girlfriend and I (both Canadian in Canada) were just planning a summer trip to Niagara Falls like 30 minutes ago. Neither of us have been. We were looking at flights and didn’t realize we were looking at flights to Niagara Falls airport in the US. We were both like “Whoa. Nope!”
If this had been last year, we would have flown into either airport and visited both sides of the border. But there is not a chance in hell I’m crossing to the US side during this trip. I’m absolutely not taking a chance of wrecking my vacation, or weeks of my life, getting nabbed by some Nazi Ice Bro and shipped to a detention camp in Arizona.
No please don’t come, and tell everyone, your friends or family who has plans to come to America to not come at least for 4 years.
I don’t know anyone in Canada still planning trips to the USA. My cousin spends 2-3 months out of the year in California. She’s been doing it for 10 years now. She had cancelled all those plans going forward.
There is even more of a risk for Canadians to go to the US. It’s always been dangerous in the US with the insane amount of guns in the average idiots hands, but now we’ve got Ice Bros itching to hurt people as well. Fuck that noise.
The US really doesn’t offer us anything we can’t get from another safer country.
I’m afraid it’s going to be a lot longer than 4 years.
I’m genuinely struggling to see where this is really a bad thing. Then again, I’m also struggling to see where it isn’t exactly what was promised during the election. Tighter border controls and firm enforcement of immigration laws and border policies means that less people come in by all means. This outcome is exactly what people voted for.
The bad thing for the US is that its a lot of revenue to lose. This type of thing has knockon effects. America has a very large tourist hospitality sector.
Yes, it was promised but the people thinking it a good thing, who voted for it and are implementing it do not understand how the economy works.
On one hand, it is a lot of revenue lost. On the other, it’s also a lot of resources freed up for Americans that would otherwise have been used by foreign tourists. As long as the supply remains the same and the demand drops, prices should get reduced as well. That’s what people understand.
What they don’t understand is that companies expect this to be temporary, and they’d rather have losses they can write off, rather than smaller profits that their investors will be upset about.
