Canadian-resident return trips from the U.S. drop again for the month of April, StatsCan data shows

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· Posted: May 12, 2025 9:50 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Travel by Canadians coming backmost from trips to the U.S. dropped sharply successful April, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada.

Return trips by Canadians coming backmost from the U.S. by aerial dropped by 19.9 per cent, and instrumentality via onshore borders dropped by a whopping 35.2 per cent compared to April of past year.

This comes arsenic instrumentality trips by aerial from overseas countries accrued by 9.9 per cent for the month. Overall, Canadian instrumentality trips from each countries lone dropped by astir 1.7 per cent year-over-year.

Trips by U.S. citizens into Canada were besides connected the decline, according to the agency's data, for the 3rd consecutive month. Travel by car by Americans was down 10.7 per cent and question by aerial decreased 5.5 per cent.

Arrivals into Canada successful April wide — some by Canadian residents returning location and by travellers from overseas coming into the state — dropped for the 3rd period successful a enactment by 15.2 per cent, according to Statistics Canada.

The figures amusement adjacent steeper declines than successful March — question into Canada was down 14 per cent wide for that month. Canadian instrumentality trips by aerial from the U.S. successful March were down 13.5 per cent compared to March 2024, and instrumentality trips by car for that period were down 31.9 per cent.

Many Canadians person been opting not to sojourn the U.S. successful caller months for a fig of reasons, such arsenic accrued scrutiny and hazard of detention astatine the border, oregon arsenic a mode to boycott the U.S. given President Donald Trump's commercialized warfare threats and speech of annexing Canada.

As a result, immoderate Canadians person opted to rebook vacations domestically and walk their question dollars astatine location instead.