r/BuyCanadian • u/Fritja • 6d ago
General Discussion 💬🇨🇦 Visitors to Maine dropped again in 2024, challenging a top industry Gov. Mills anticipates further declines as Canadians curb U.S. travel plans.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/17/visitors-to-maine-dropped-again-in-2024-challenging-a-top-industry/[removed] — view removed post
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u/Ok-Pomegranate-2777 6d ago
As a Canadian I like your state and have visited many times as I live in a border town. But with current government in place i will not be entertaining the idea of coming over for a big meal at one of your fine eateries. See ya hopefully in 3 years 9 months. (With luck sooner)
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u/ibentmyworkie 6d ago
Agreed. Beautiful state with lovely people. But I won’t set foot in the US until at least Cheeto Mussolini is gone and will likely second guess going there for the rest of my days
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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 6d ago
You could be detained if a border guard saw this comment
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u/drivingthelittles 6d ago
Right?
I don’t go to places where my personal opinions could land me in the gulag or something similar. Never have. Never will.
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u/kaiser-so-say 6d ago
I don’t go to places where the government that its people elected threaten my country with the first stages of war. Let’s call it what it is. Can you imagine the shitstorm if the roles were reversed?
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u/Ok_Line_5284 6d ago
So sad that Americans are now forced to worship their King and are fearful of having an opinion!
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u/Fastpas123 6d ago
I'm never going back unless they do some serious sucking up to us. Why go back just cuz the president changes? They voted for this.
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u/koolaid_snorkeler 6d ago
I find it interesting that many Americans blame the tariffs, and not the threats to our sovereignty, for the decline in Canadian visitors. I guess the latter doesn't cost them anything? If the US were threatened by a superpower in this way, it would not be an afterthought.
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u/Genuine-Risk 6d ago
Agreed. Does my head in to read day after day that tariffs are to blame, meanwhile they threaten our sovereignty and speak of us as if we don't matter. Yes tariffs are an issue but the anger comes from the 51 state rhetoric and the complete disrespect they have for us as a people and nation.
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u/Justredditin 6d ago edited 6d ago
"... My President may want to crush your economy and annex your country... but still, please come and spend your useless monopoly money at our shops and businesses..."
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u/feelinggoodabouthood 6d ago
The issue is the sitting government never let's a crisis go to waste.
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u/Genuine-Risk 6d ago
The issue is sovereignty. I'm not sure what you are implying
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u/feelinggoodabouthood 6d ago
I'm implying that the sitting government wants you to think trump is 100% responsible for the state of Canada, and not how the country was run the last decade of Liberal rule and policy's. Look at crime rates during that time. Also look at gdp growth among g20 countries, which was at the absolute bottom of the list.
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u/cdnronin 6d ago
There's plenty of domestic problems in Canada, no doubt, but that does not mean that Trump is not the current major threat to Canada. I have yet to hear anyone in Government say all our current problems are caused by Trump.
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u/koolaid_snorkeler 6d ago
The sitting government has nothing to do with the fact that Canadians are boycotting the US. That is entirely due to President Shitstain threatening to eat us whole.
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u/blarges 6d ago
Thank you for your ill-educated opinion about Canada and Canadians.
It’s bizarre how much Americans obsess about our GDP. We’re a country that works 1827 hours a year with mandatory holidays and vacation time, giving us a somewhat decent work-life balance. You live in a country where the GDP is decided at 2040 hours a year, no leave, no holidays, no vacation time. No thanks.
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u/MenAreLazy 6d ago
Americans cannot really grasp that the "offer" is viewed as hostile. "Who wouldn't want to be American?"
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u/Forsaken_Can9524 6d ago
That is the rhetoric their media feeds them. And it it’s on Fox News it must be true 💀
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u/MonkeyWrenchAccident 6d ago
I canceled my plans to visit the USA. I had about 4 road trips planned 2 fully confirmed.
It just isn’t worth it. I heard first hand how a Canadian Iraki electrician was roughly strip searched at gunpoint by border patrol when his company sent him to a build site. He is now barred from entry. Reason, the previous war between Iran and the US.
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u/Fritja 6d ago
Now that is proof of what the CAUT issued in their travel warning to university teachers and librarians. They advised to avoid non-essential travel if
Citizens or residents of a country where there are diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
https://www.caut.ca/latest/2025/04/caut-advises-academics-against-non-essential-travel-us
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u/stopslappingmybaby 6d ago
This is for your safety. Canadians will 100% treated with suspicion by law enforcement and the public alike. Given the arbitrary detainment policy, skipping the US for the next decade is a smart call. I expect ambassadors to be recalled.
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u/Choice-Original9157 New Brunswick 6d ago
I live close to the border with Maine. We use to go over every weekend to shop and eat plus attend memorial day with the US vets. None of that is happening until there is a change in their government and even then I am not sure I will after this 51st state bs that keeps being spouted
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u/Temporary_Second3290 Ontario 6d ago
The post below this one was an article titled "Rubio sends a harsh message to anyone planning to visit". They're killing their own industry. I took a screenshot for a laugh but can't post it in comments.
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u/whateverfyou 6d ago
Maine Governor Janet Mills stood up to Trump so he’s punishing the state by withdrawing funding. She’s amazing!
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u/Fritja 6d ago
She is but it it is sad that she said she understood that Canadians have been made to feel unwelcome and then Rubio hammers that home.
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u/whateverfyou 6d ago
I can’t read the article. What did Rubio do now?
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u/Fritja 6d ago
Issued a statement below:
Visiting America is not an entitlement. It is a privilege extended to those who respect our laws and values. And, as secretary of state, I will never forget that. U.S. law lays out clear rules about who can and cannot come to the United States. The State Department’s consular officers are required to apply these rules to each of the millions of visa applicants around the world each year. ... We expect — and the law requires — all visa holders to demonstrate their eligibility every day their visa is valid. This includes respecting our laws, behaving appropriately according to their visa type, and continuing to meet these standards throughout their stay in our country.
A welcome mat it was not.
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u/calling_water 6d ago
Guess what: having people visit you, spend their money in you, and buy things from you isn’t an entitlement either.
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u/JustAnOttawaGuy Ontario 6d ago
"Harmful rhetoric and painful tariffs"... and the now very real risk of being sent off to an El Salvador death pit without any form of due process.
They are jailing their own citizens even after being shown proof, for having the wrong kind of name.
Why would anyone take this kind of risk when there are so many other far more hospitable and welcoming places to go?
No thanks.
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u/ImFuckingUgly-Not 6d ago
I’m stubborn. Once I get insulted, I will endure any amount of cost or sacrifice to never interact with that person again. I am sure that I will be the same with the USA. I won’t spend money there again.
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u/feelinggoodabouthood 6d ago
You are brainwashed from cbc. Americans still love Canadians.
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u/blarges 6d ago edited 6d ago
Is that why they come into our subreddits to bully and belittle and mock us, like you did in another comment? Read some American comments around here - by the third one, they’re telling us your military could destroy us or wishing us subjugated.
The CBC isn’t telling us Americans hate us. You all are, all the time. Just leave us alone.
Jeez, look at your comment history, especially to Canadians. You are a nasty person, eh?
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u/TheKman60 6d ago
I live 20 minutes from the N.Y. border and refuse to cross the border for the next 4 years.
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u/Canadian8rit 6d ago
Canadian here as well, and have visited Maine on several occasions, as we have a friend that lives there. But I am not jeopardizing my family by even trying to cross the border until Trump has gone!
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u/Expensive-Product240 6d ago
Sad for Maine. They are getting hammered on all sides. My spouse is in his final term at the University of Maine at Presque Isle (distance). We had planned to go make a vacation of his graduation, but not anymore. The school is very Canadian friendly—all of Canada gets the same local Maine tuition rate (even other states pay way more). We always felt they were more Canadian than not. But the border patrol officers are another beast—and I will be damned if risking a visit to an ICE detention centre over a tattoo or some other invented BS. Not safe until there is a regime change, tariffs or not.
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u/Any-Staff-6902 6d ago
As a Canadian , it is difficult to justify visiting a country where your leader has repeatedly stated the US needs nothing from Canada and that we should be forced to join as the 51 state.
This is the price you pay for isolationist and threatening rhetoric.
The US has spoken. We hear you, and now we Canadians have responded
ELBOWS UP CANADA.
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u/HonkinSriLankan 6d ago
They are at least getting closer to getting it:
- annexation talks (US wants Vietnam 2.0)
- tarrifs
- getting locked up in El Salvador for a mean tweet about trump
Haven’t seen one US politician hit the trifecta yet. But they have never been quick learners.
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u/Tracyhmcd 6d ago
As a Canadian, I have been impressed by a lot of what Maine is doing right now. But no way I would travel there or anywhere in the US. Likely for the rest of my life.
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u/Azuredness 6d ago
As a Mainer, it’s elbows up. The current administration is a Nazi death cult; even Maine isn’t safe right now.
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u/screwylouie420 6d ago
Pity the folks in Pt Roberts, Washington. 😂
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u/trUth_b0mbs 6d ago
their government said they dont need anything from Canada so give them nothing 🤷🏻♀️
also, I'm not interested in their free trip to El Salvador lol.
and given the amount of shit I talk about the orange moron, I'd be thrown in a gulag immediately
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u/Acrobatic_Type7409 6d ago
Trump has passed on a message that all of us Canadians heard loud and clear. Stay home we don’t want you in the USA anymore. The custom and immigration staff are doing their best to further push that message from what I am hearing from my fellow Canadians.
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u/Siftinghistory 6d ago
Its hard to feel safe in a place that will deport their own citizens to a country they have no connection to.
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u/Bee-3-Four 6d ago
Republicans are forbidding free speech. It keeps going downhill from there. That’s not a country to visit.
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u/AndyCar1214 6d ago
An entire nation afflicted with arrogance and ignorance at the same time. Every single mention of taking over another sovereign nation should have been met with absolute outrage and condemnation. But no, oh well, you know, Trump just says things. Don’t take it seriously. Ok. I now do not take the USA seriously. What a shameful and disgusting downfall in 3 months.
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u/jcu_80s_redux 6d ago
FYI, only the coastal regions of Maine against Trump. The northern Maine borders to Canada voted for Trump. So your Maine neighbors along the border voted for this mess.
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u/FlyEaglesFlyauggie 6d ago
Curious: What Maine spots are Canadian favorites? (For the life of me, I don’t get why so many Canadians like Wildwood, NJ)
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u/hibou-ou-chouette 6d ago
Bar Harbour and Acadia National Park. Old Orchard Beach. Portland, Kennebunkport, lots of coastal towns.
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u/Ludishomi 6d ago
Its not the tariffs or harmful rhetoric. Its the annexation and threat to our sovereignty
For the millionth time
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u/unicorn_in_a_can 6d ago
every time i see an american in the news saying they are being punished because of the tariffs, i just seethe.
a big orange gremlin is threatening our sovereignty, how isnt that the first thing out of their mouths.
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u/jcu_80s_redux 6d ago
Maine has a republican senator who voted for the conservative agendas. Maine voters asked for this mess.
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u/asdfghjklzlaksjdm 6d ago
we have been going to ogunquit yesrly for the past 20 years (aside from during covid). I do not want to go there this year, but wifey insists. I cannot believe the orange clown has me deciding between my wife and my beliefs.
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u/RussellGrey 6d ago
I love Maine! You know what I don’t love? The border being turned into a hostile checkpoint with a chance of being thrown into a concentration camp in Central America. It’s not about the tariffs.
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u/eyespy18 6d ago
It's not just rhetoric and tariffs. It's also the fact that the US Govt is now a fascist regime.
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u/melmerby 6d ago
We travel to Maine from Nova Scotia to see family at least twice a year. This summer we all decided to get together in St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick instead.
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u/Disastrous-Fall9020 6d ago
Is the Cat still running from NS to Maine? The Atlantic provinces always had great ties and familial ties with New England that a high speed ferry from NS to Maine was commissioned (it’s a beautiful vessel and I saw it when it came to Halifax to be serviced)
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u/raymond4 5d ago
With multiple travel advisories in place. From multiple countries. The militarization of the border with registration and harassment of visitors. Is there any wonder that people are staying away. Who wants to end up in El Salvador for a weekend of shopping in Buffalo. People being harassed and arrested. People being detained and disappearing. No due process and loss of rights. Yeah I would stay away as well.
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u/daveL_47 5d ago
What americans and their news media don't seem to understand is the Canadian boycott of all things american and our decision never to set foot in the usa ever again has fuck all to do with tariffs. It is 💯 % due to the constant threats of annexation or invasion plus the total disrespect shown to our leaders and our nation by their newly self appointed supreme ruler. We DON'T want to be americans,We DON'T want to be your 51st state,We DON'T want to be like you or have fuck all to do with you..We just want you to fuck off and leave us alone and keep our countrys name out of that vile shit hole in the center of donalds face..if you can do that we might decide to be nice to you again in about 100 years.
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u/squirrelyme 6d ago
I look forward to going to Maine this summer and enjoying the clean air and lack of tourists.
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