Canadians reduced their spending on travel to the United States by $3.3 billion in 2025, coinciding with President Trump’s second term in the White House, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada.

The report shows that Canadians spent a total of $18.8 billion on trips to the U.S. last year. Leisure travel to the U.S. dropped by $2.2 billion, while Canadians increased their international leisure travel spending by $3.6 billion.

Family-related travel to the U.S. also declined over an 11-month period, though at a slower rate than leisure travel. Border crossing volumes fell steadily throughout the year, bottoming out in July 2025 at nearly one-third below the previous year’s levels. Return crossings stabilized later in the year at about one-quarter below 2024 figures.

These figures represent the lowest number of border crossings since 1972, when digital recordkeeping began for the Frontier Counts program, excluding the pandemic period. The year-over-year declines of more than 30 percent were noted as only previously recorded after the September 11 attacks.

Additionally, Canadian residents returning from the U.S. dropped by over 70 percent from December 2024 to December 2025.

Despite the sharp decline in 2025, Canadian travel to the U.S. has started to recover. Government officials are working to improve relations between the neighboring countries through an advertising campaign, as reported by CBC.

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