🇨🇦 With high gas prices and a trade war, get ready for a long stretch of low cross-border travel

Canadian cross-border car trips collapsed 30.9 per cent last year, and another 12.3 per cent drop hit February alone. Meanwhile, American visits to Canada are up 6 per cent this year. The message is clear: Canadians are self-isolating from their largest trading partner out of spite, political hysteria, and media-fed fear, while Americans shrug and keep coming here. Border mayors report 40 per cent traffic drops and shuttered businesses, but the real story is psychological surrender dressed up as moral posturing.

Gas prices are higher everywhere, yet only one direction of travel is collapsing. Carney killed the federal carbon tax but Washington state piled on its own, so fuel tourism is dead either way. The border chill isn't economic—it's ideological. Canadians have been conditioned to treat their own interests as negotiable and American politics as existential threats, so they stay home and let their own border towns die while feeling righteous about it.

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