Canadians won’t stop giving US trips the cold shoulder.
According to Statistics Canada’s National Travel Survey released Tuesday, Canadian residents took 5.5 million trips that included a visit to the US in the first three months of 2026, down 10.6% from the same period last year.
The figures extend a sharp pullback that began last year. A Statistics Canada report released last month said that the number of Canadian residents returning home from trips to the US fell 25.4% in 2025 compared with 2024.
It was the deepest and most sustained non-pandemic decline on record: 11 straight months of year-over-year falls. Border crossings in early 2026…
