Canadian resident trips to U.S. plunge by 22% year over year
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Return trips by Canadian residents from the U.S. fell 22 per cent in January compared with a year earlier, according to the latest data.
Return trips by Canadian residents from the U.S. fell 22 per cent in January compared with a year earlier, according to the latest data.
Statistics Canada says those figures released Monday marked the 13th straight monthly decline, and come after nearly a year of U.S. tariffs and President Donald Trump’s repeated threats that Canada should become the “51st state.”
The agency says that because travel trends among Canadian residents “shifted alongside political tensions” with the U.S. in 2025, it also included comparisons with January 2024 for additional perspective.
There was a 22 per cent drop in Canadian resident return trips from the U.S. in January 2026 compared with 2025, and from January 2026 to January 2024, the decline was 23.2 per cent.
By automobile, Canadians returned from 1.3 million trips to the U.S. in January, which was a drop of 26.3 per cent from a year earlier. Statistics Canada adds that more than two-thirds — 67.5 per cent — of those were same-day trips.
Return trips by air from the U.S. by Canadian residents in January totalled 753,400, which marked a 12.8 per cent decline from the same period in 2025.
Canadians were still eager to travel in January, though, with the agency reporting a 10.6 per cent increase in Canadian resident return trips from overseas destinations.
In total, Canadians returned from 3.6 million trips abroad in January, with 2.1 million being trips from the U.S.
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