Canadian air passenger traffic to U.S. down for 9th consecutive month - National | Globalnews.ca
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The drop comes almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.

For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.

New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada.

    Except lower inflation is doing exactly that.
    Most of the world has been through a period of increased inflation, but Europe is getting it under control now, and apparently so is Canada. So yes this should definitely be helping.