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Opinion | There’s a terrifying reason to avoid Trump’s America

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President Donald Trump holds an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9, 2025, in Washington.


Bruce Arthur is a columnist for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: .

Geographically, the United States is a miracle. Warm weather in the winters, natural beauty of almost every kind, a constellation of iconic cities and vacation destinations and highways you could drive all day. Vacation home? My father-in-law had a place in Tampa. Favourite city? Say, New Orleans. A favourite drive? I once cruised the 120 north out of Cody, Wyoming at sunrise, and it felt like a road lost in time. And for Canada, America is so close.

That’s now a problem. Travel from Canada the United States is not just falling: it is plummeting. According to the , year-over-year bookings of flights from Canada to the United States are vanishing: down over 70 per cent in each of the months between April and September. Airlines are changing routes. Canadians are changing their habits. And not just Canadians: is falling in real time.

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