Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city’s love for Canada. Online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of the border.
As a Vancouver resident and marketing executive himself, Loewen said he understands the conciliatory overtures. The number of Canadians traveling to the United States plunged after President Donald Trump returned to office with remarks about making Canada the 51st state. An acrimonious trade war between the two countries now is threatening to reinforce the informal boycott just as it appeared to be easing slightly.
“It’s such a big ask right now,” Loewen, 45, said of the U.S. tourism industry’s attempts to woo Canadians like him back before a new president occupies the White House. “It’s just a wasted effort.”
Once again need to clarify on behalf of Canada this is not about a trade war. We have trade wars with the US once a decade when they try and fail again to pinch us on softwood lumber or milk. It’s nothing new and it’s never been a threat to our relationship beyond us wondering why you want to damage your own logging industry and end up being forced to pay us back billions anyway once the nafta/cusma arbitration is done.
This happens all the time
What doesn’t happen all the time is your president directly threatening our sovereignty and stating outright that he is on an economic crusade to debilitate us to the point we are either politically it militarily subsumed by the USA.
If you can’t see the difference you are part of the problem.
Yes to all, but who wants to visit a country with a gestapo murdering people in the streets, sending people to concentration camps, corrupt policing, corrupt courts and extortionate healthcare AND everything you just said.