Miami is sunny and roughly 30 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it is in Quebec City this week — but don’t expect visitors to be flocking from Canada to the United States for a balmy Spring. That’s because Canadians are avoiding trips across their southern border amid US President Donald Trump’s anti-migrant crackdown and swinging tariffs on their country’s exports. A new poll from a Daily Mail and J.L. Partners found that just 15 percent of Canadians are planning a holiday trip to the US right now — far fewer than the number who visited in 2024.

The shocking survey result comes as Canada reels from Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminum, cars, and auto parts and has repeatedly called for it to join America as its ’51st state.’ Canadians are also alarmed by reports of their countrymen getting quizzed at the US border, and of getting shackled and caged by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Among them is Jasmine Mooney (pictured), 35, a Canadian former actress, who was detained by ICE at the US-Mexico border over issues with her visa and held for 12 days before she was released.

Canadians are also boycotting US-made products in their stores and opting to ‘ buy Canadian’ products to boost the economy amid the headwinds of a trade war, our poll also found. The survey of more than 1,000 Canadian adults earlier this month found that only 15 percent of respondents were planning a holiday visit to the US in the current hostile climate. That’s sharply down on the roughly 20 million Canadians who visited the US last year, before Trump’s second term in the White House, according to researchers at J.L. Partners.

Another 39 percent of Canadians sad they would normally be planning a US trip, but were avoiding it this year. Another 40 percent said they did not typically travel to the US, and another 7 percent said they were not sure how they felt about it. Supporters of Canada’s Conservative Party expressed a greater willingness to visit the US, with 26 percent saying they would holiday there.

Liberals were less inclined to travel there, with 52 percent saying they visited the US regularly but would not amid the current hostility. Trump’s tariffs on Canadian exports and talk of annexation have rocked what has for decades been one of the most stable neighborly relationships in the world. The two countries share the longest border on the planet, have fully integrated armed forces, and routinely voted for the other as their ‘favorite’ foreigners.

The shift has upended the dynamics of Canada’s April 28 general election, which pits the Liberals under prime minister Mark Carney against Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party Carney has surged ahead in the polls, with tough talk against Trump, who he says is trying ‘to break us, so America can own us.’ ‘We are over the shock of the betrayal. But we should never forget the lessons,’ Carney said.

Canadians and other US allies have also signaled they are less likely to travel to the US for fear of strict visa enforcement and tough treatment at the border and ports of entry. Tourism from Canada has seen the biggest drop-off, with the number of people crossing the border in March 18 percent lower than in the same month in 2024. Visitors from Western Europe, another traditional allied region, have also pulled back, according to the US Commerce Department’s National Travel and Tourism Office.

Goldman Sachs analysts recently warned clients that the US could lose as much as $90 billion in revenue this year from the impact of reduced visits and canceled purchases of US goods. Many visitors have been scared away by the treatment of such travelers as Mooney, An American Pie actress who was locked up for nearly two weeks by US immigration officials. Mooney was denied entry into the US while making her way from Mexico to California after her work visa was revoked back in November while traveling from Vancouver to Los Angeles.

She was thrown into jail on March 3 after ICE determined she was an illegal alien and transferred her to the San Luis Regional Detention Center in Arizona. While in detention, Mooney, who runs a drink firm called Holy! Water, said she endured some of the harshest treatment there that left her weak and confused. After she was released and back home in Vancouver, Mooney took to social media to warn of the ‘deeply disturbing psychological experiment’ she endured in Trump’s America.

Her case sent shockwaves through Canada, where shoppers say they’ve stopped buying US produce amid the US-Canada trade war. Our survey found that 19 percent of respondents are avoiding American goods. Another 42 percent of respondents said they preferred to buy Canadian goods, though 22 percent said they would still buy American if the ‘price or quality is right.’

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