Motorists enter Canada at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing, in Surrey, B.C., in 2021. The number of U.S. visits by car and air fell 30.5% and 24% in October, marking the tenth straight month of travel declines.

Canadians continued to steer clear of the United States in October, with the month marking yet another major drop in year-over-year visitors.

The number of Canadian residents who returned by car from the U.S. fell to 1.4 million in October, a 30.5-per-cent drop from the same period in 2024, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada .

The decrease marked the 10th straight month of lower volumes, beginning the month after U.S. President Donald Trump was elected.

The number of Canadians returning home from south of the border by air sank to 437,300, down 24 per

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