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The drop comes almost a year after U.S. President Donald Trump first started musing about making Canada the 51st state, a threat he has repeated throughout the trade war.

For the ninth consecutive month, fewer passengers at Canadian airports are heading to the United States amid the trade war.

New data from Statistics Canada shows total Canadian air passenger traffic in October was up by 4.5 per cent to five million travellers from the same time last year, but the number of people on U.S.-bound trips is down 8.9 per cent to 1.2 million travellers.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada.

    Except lower inflation is doing exactly that.
    Most of the world has been through a period of increased inflation, but Europe is getting it under control now, and apparently so is Canada. So yes this should definitely be helping.

    • DishonestBirb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Having just double checked with my Canadian family, and then checking their sources, nope, inflation directly affecting cost of living is not getting under control there. Food price inflation is up 4.7% for 2025, which is more than double the rate of inflation for the last year.

      Meat, Coffee, Fresh Fruit, and Fresh Vegetables are apparently the worst hit categories. Also, I got to listen to a mini-rant about Shrinkflation.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        Food is not the whole picture:
        https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251215/dq251215a-eng.htm

        The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October.

        https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-unchanged-november-2025-9.7015905

        Overall inflation rate came in at 2.2 per cent. But that rate has been largely outpaced by food since August 2024, and in November it rose 4.7 per cent compared to this time last year.

        So Canada has their overall inflation under control, despite increasing food prices. Where I live food is only 10-12% of an average budget, and so similarly is only 1 part out of many when the CPI inflation number is calculated.
        Transportation, heat, clothes, rent and other things are also included in the inflation number, to better reflect a normal budget. Rent is often a bigger expense than food.

        Compared to Canada having 2.2% inflation YOY in November USA has 3%. In USA it may be even higher than 4.7% for food IDK.

        Also in USA where many people live below the poverty level, increasing rent and food prices are more serious.