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Jul-12-2020 06:28 PM
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Jul-12-2020 05:02 PM
wapiticountry wrote:pianotuna wrote:I am just saying if the US is so terrible and such a threat to Canadians and their health, just shut the border until there is zero cases of COVID in the US. If it gets cold in the winter, tough. If a Canadian owns a winter home or needs to cross the border to visit relatives, buy supplies or conduct business, too bad. Whinning and complaining that a country is not doing what they should to protect their residents and visitors then just tossing those concerns aside and traveling to that country because it got cold outside is pretty much the definition of hypocritical behavior. If you have convictions, you should stick by them regardless of the weather.wapiticountry wrote:
If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.
And how often have you come to Canada? And that would be in January?
USA is causing its own suffering. Just why that is happening I'll leave to your fertile imagination.
There is no doubt in my mind, that far more Canadians snowbird to USA, than US citizens visit Canada. So USA may hurt financially from the lack of those folks not buying goods, food, and accommodation.
I do know that in a two week period in June, over 72000 Americans excluding Truckers, crossed the border going North. There must have been a lot of folks returning to Alaska......or perhaps the visitors were telling porkies to the border officials?
BTW I'm not anti American. But I'm definitely anti Covid 19. Or perhaps Covid 19 and the 137,572 folks who have died in USA, are all part of a hoax?
Jul-12-2020 04:36 PM
Jul-12-2020 03:52 PM
pianotuna wrote:Your logic is flawed. Raw numbers of travelers is not as important as the percentage of business those travelers represent. In 2019 the US had 79.6 million foreign visitors. That makes Canadians 26% of foreign travel and tourism. For comparison, Canada had 21 million foreign visitors. That means US visitors accounted for nearly 60% of Canadian foreign travel and tourism. Clearly the loser in a tit for tat tourism lockout between the US and Canada would be Canada.
For the latest data available
21 million Canadians visited USA
12.5 million American's visited Canada
“This is clearly the currency at play,” he wrote in a BMO trends report, adding, “Note that even now, there are still two Canadians travelling to the U.S. for every one American visiting Canada. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the ratio was 1:1.”
So USA will be on the wrong side of the scale, economically.
Jul-12-2020 03:47 PM
pianotuna wrote:I am just saying if the US is so terrible and such a threat to Canadians and their health, just shut the border until there is zero cases of COVID in the US. If it gets cold in the winter, tough. If a Canadian owns a winter home or needs to cross the border to visit relatives, buy supplies or conduct business, too bad. Whinning and complaining that a country is not doing what they should to protect their residents and visitors then just tossing those concerns aside and traveling to that country because it got cold outside is pretty much the definition of hypocritical behavior. If you have convictions, you should stick by them regardless of the weather.wapiticountry wrote:
If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.
And how often have you come to Canada? And that would be in January?
USA is causing its own suffering. Just why that is happening I'll leave to your fertile imagination.
There is no doubt in my mind, that far more Canadians snowbird to USA, than US citizens visit Canada. So USA may hurt financially from the lack of those folks not buying goods, food, and accommodation.
I do know that in a two week period in June, over 72000 Americans excluding Truckers, crossed the border going North. There must have been a lot of folks returning to Alaska......or perhaps the visitors were telling porkies to the border officials?
BTW I'm not anti American. But I'm definitely anti Covid 19. Or perhaps Covid 19 and the 137,572 folks who have died in USA, are all part of a hoax?
Jul-12-2020 09:06 AM
Jul-12-2020 08:55 AM
wapiticountry wrote:pianotuna wrote:If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.magicbus wrote:
It’s becoming obvious why Canadians would rather keep the border closed!
Over 430,000 new cases in a week says it all.
That's more folks than live in Regina and Saskatoon.
Jul-12-2020 08:55 AM
wapiticountry wrote:
If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.
Jul-12-2020 08:14 AM
Jul-12-2020 08:05 AM
pianotuna wrote:If the US is such a threat to Canada, maybe the border should be closed permanently. I wonder which country has a greater percentage of their population cross the border in any given year. My bet is Canada would suffer more than the US.magicbus wrote:
It’s becoming obvious why Canadians would rather keep the border closed!
Over 430,000 new cases in a week says it all.
That's more folks than live in Regina and Saskatoon.
Jul-11-2020 09:25 PM
magicbus wrote:
It’s becoming obvious why Canadians would rather keep the border closed!
Jul-11-2020 03:09 PM
Tequila wrote:
At the risk of offending my American friends, this is what it's starting to feel like up here
Jul-11-2020 02:39 PM
magicbus wrote:People that choose to work for low wages in areas with high costs of living do so by choice. I don't feel sorry for them at all. So unless Nantucket County still has indentured servants you are talking about people who made the choice to live where they can't afford to do more than scrape by. There are hundreds of places where I would love to live, but cannot afford, so I make the choice to live in places I can afford. That is called life.
Statistics really are wonderful aren’t they? Go look up what the working class on Nantucket pays in rent because they can’t afford to own but still need a roof over their heads. Who the do you think keeps everything running for the people that own your statistical multi-million dollar homes? I’m not getting into a p****** contest with someone who thinks they can sit 1000’s of miles away and quote stats from the Internet. It’s becoming obvious why Canadians would rather keep the border closed!
Dave