TORONTO - Canadians might be shunning trips to the U.S. as the tariff war trundles along, but Americans are still heading north, so much so that July marked a milestone.

Statistics Canada said Tuesday that more U.S. residents came to Canada that month than Canadian residents returned from the U.S. It’s a feat that’s only happened one other time in roughly the last two decades, if you exclude the COVID-19 pandemic outliers of August and September 2021.

The same imbalance happened in June this year, but before that it hadn’t occurred since June 2006.

The most recent shift has come as Canadians have doubled down on patriotism, skipping travelling to the U.S. because President Donald Trump continues to pummel the country with tariffs on goods crossing the border.

In July, higher tariffs we

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