Far fewer Quebecers and other Canadians travelling to the U.S. this year: StatCan
Far fewer Canadians — including Quebecers — are travelling to the United States this year than they did in 2024.
Recently released Statistics Canada data shows a sharp decline in Canadians returning to the country from abroad, driven by a decline in travel from the United States.
The decline in travel, which also includes fewer U.S. visitors entering Canada, tracks with the first months of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. This second Trump presidency has seen a sharp deterioration in Canada-U.S. relations marked by aggressive tariffs on Canadian goods and threats of annexation.
With it have come calls to boycott American goods — and American vacations.
Depending on the metric, travel from the U.S. has declined year-over-year every month since either January or February. Trump took office Jan. 20.
In June, 1.3 million Canadians returned home from the United States at land crossings, making for 33-per-cent fewer trips than in June 2024. June was the sixth consecutive month that fewer Canadians crossed the land border back into the country, compared with the same months in 2024.
Quebecers cut back on U.S. travel even more. Just 164,000 Canadians crossed the U.S. border into Quebec in June, a 43-per-cent decrease from June 2024, when 286,000 people made the same trip.
Americans are also opting to travel to Canada less: 1.4 million U.S. residents entered Canada in June 2025, a 10-per-cent decline from 2024 and the fifth consecutive month that U.S. travel to Canada declined.
Airports are also less busy, with 3.4-per-cent fewer Canadians —1.2 million people — returning to the country by plane this June than in June 2024.
The drop was driven by a decrease in return trips from the U.S.: 364,000 Canadian residents made that journey, a 22-per-cent decline from June last year.
But arrivals from outside the U.S. increased, with 867,000 Canadians returning from countries outside the U.S. this June, 7.3 per cent more than in June 2024.
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