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Canadians are staying away from the US — and the drop in travel is getting hard to ignore
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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The border at Surrey/Blaine is completely dead in both directions. I used the trucking entrance coming in from the US at 0900 on a Monday and there was no line at the border, zero.
There are truck stop sized gas stations and motels 5 blocks from the border sitting empty in Blaine, it's far harder on them than Surrey.
The US side approach road is now laid out in the style of a 2000s imperial checkpoint in Iraq.
It was very nice to cross for the last time.
The little town of Sumas WA next to Abbotsford BC was basically killed last time Trump was in office. That was a popular crossing for Canadians going to the US to pick up groceries and packages from post boxes. There was a large grocery store that had been there 50 years. Canadian's stopped crossing and they went under about a year into Trump's first term.
I'm sure the Biden years brought it back a little, but I assume it's a ghost town by now.
Point Roberts struggling too