Majority of Canadians feel unwelcome and unsafe travelling to United States: new poll

Who?

OP, I can't blame you, the US is now a shit-hole country & a banana republic.

R2, I'd just rather spend my money elsewhere. I used to visit NYC regularly (once or twice a year), but this year, I'm taking my mom to Montreal instead. We'll keep our money in Canada and no potential for hassle at customs.

Walk it off Marie

🎵 i don’t feel safe, i need to pray!

Oh no! Not the poor Canadians!

I also wonder about the reverse. How will Canadians react to American visitors? I don't expect them to be in any danger but there will be more rigorous inspections at customs, especially for firearms and fentanyl. Not to mention less than civil treatment by patriotic Canadians in daily interactions.

Then there are the problems encountered by convicted felons trying to enter Canada. There are ways around the restrictions but a flat out refusal for a certain someone attending the upcoming G7 summit would be delicious.

R7, I feel that the majority of Americans visiting Canada wouldn't be MAGA, so they'd be fine. Of course, there are some MAGA who visit to go hunting and fishing, but they're a minority.

You're probably right r8. At the same time I expect we will hear more about the exceptions in the media.

I’m scared some crazy shit will happen that costs me lots of extra money or endangers me

I feel unsafe any time I see a Canadian license plate anywhere on a US Interstate.

Fucking Deploristan, man. Just leave them alone as they engage in some much-needed soul searching.

Won’t set foot in the U.S. ever again. Not after 70 million of them endorsed a racist, misogynistic, hillbilly stupid would-be dictator. Spent four years living in Boston in the 90’s and met some of the kindest, smartest people ever. But America has turned a dark corner that will take generations to recover from. America’s true color has been exposed and it looks a lot like pure evil. Bye, Felicia.

Someone was telling me stories last night about a couple of her clients who were stopped at the border reentering the US. One was a white, native-born female professor who was pulled aside while the border patrol went through her phone. (They didlet her in, but FFS.) The other one was a Filipina legal US resident coming back from abroad who was denied entry. Apparently, she had some long-ago criminal record that had no current significance. They just wanted an excuse to keep out a brown person.

Back in March, my financial advisor here in Toronto told me about two of her elderly clients who were followed and shouted at "Go back to Canada", We Don't Want You Here" in a Publix supermarket. The two creeps-apparently strangers to each other-knew the elderly couple were Canadians as the man was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Granted, it was in Florida, but it's still disturbing. I won't even change planes in the States. And last month when I was touring New Zealand and Australia I always wore my little Canadian flag pin on my shirt pocket...not so much to brag about being Canadian as to make sure nobody thought I was an American. Sorry boys, but we're done.

R8, lots of pro-Trump Americans come to Canada for hunting, even including Donald Trump Jr. & Kristi Noem. They are so hypocritical.

I don’t feel safe as an american

I hate that this is happening, and I don't blame Canadians one bit for their anger or their resolve to boycott us. I would too. I'm curtailing all international travel until Trump is gone. I don't blame the world for hating us right now. We *are* the baddies.

My coworker just went to Savannah and had no problems. Said people there were very welcoming knowing she and her hubby were Canadians. No hassles through customs. But she did purge her phone of all social media apps just in case. I’m thinking Homeland Security has specific flags they watch for, and there are more of them now, but I can still see why people are leery. I myself won’t travel to the US under the current administration on principle. Fuck Dump and his tariffs and threats.

Canada is fast becoming an antisemitic cesspool, with multiple attacks on *one* Jewish school in the last year. The number of antisemitic incidents in the country reached a record high in 2023 and continues to rise.

Their healthcare system is completely overburdened and on the verge of collapse thanks to the flood of migrants they’ve invited into their country.

They now rank 22nd in the world in GDP per capita.

They have ZERO business looking down upon the US, which they rely on economically and for defense. There is plenty to criticize the US for, but I’m tired of the fucking hypocrisy.

Fuck off troll at R20. You're so obvious,

R21, “antisemitism” has become the club used by ultra rightwingers to beat you if you aren’t a complete fascist.

Fun fact: ultra rightwingers perpetrated the Holocaust

Datalounge shitting on Canada. NID. You'd be surprised what the world thinks of the US right now. You are so utterly oblivious. Then again, it's typical American to be ignorant.

I feel unsafe living in the US

I feel unsafe living period.

Someone make it stop

R20 is a bot. It's programmed to catch certain keywords (Canada, Trump, immigrants, tourism) and then spit out a response along certain hot-button topics ("anti-semitism," healthcare) that's meant to inflame folks and derail or redirect the conversation away from the undesirable topic (rising anti-american sentiment and criticism of Trump). The fact that we're talking about it but it's not responding is a tell, but AI is getting better and it'll get harder and harder to see these tells.

PAY ATTENTION!

Yes, r20 is a bot. Because no actual human could make those comments. It has to be some kind of complicated attempt to infiltrate DL. It’s the new Boris.

I think it’s great Canadians are boycotting the US. But there is no anti Canada feeling here at all. It’s all just meaningless gibberish emanating from the orange buffoon,

You're a buffoon, R28.