Posted on 10/29/2025 4:44:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Vancouver attorney Grant Murray used to travel to the United States frequently until the US-Canadian trade dispute led him to wage his own personal travel boycott. But as much as he loves his country and wants to support it, he loves his Toronto Blue Jays more.
So he was at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles on Tuesday night with his brother Kevin, who traveled all the way from Australia, to take in their first World Series game.
“The Canadian economy is being hurt. Lots of people are very concerned about their future,” he said. “There’s a level of solidarity that I support, but I guess I’m now a hypocrite because I’m supporting the Blue Jays more than the boycott.”
Murray isn’t the only Canadian who was boycotting trips to the United States this year.
Canadians are usually the top foreign travelers to the United States, with 20.2 million visits in 2024, according to data from industry trade group the US Travel Association. But the group expects that Canadian travel to the United States will drop to 15.7 million this year, a 22% decline.
Three days of the World Series games aren’t going to make up for that estimated loss – but they are driving some travel from Canadians.
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Sounds like a good time for the few normal, sensible Canadians that are left to take a trip.
Hahahahahahahaha!
We SUCK, but...BASEBALL! WOOHOOO!
I used to love Canada, but I went up there back around 2021 or 2022, they took my car apart at the border, nearly made me piss myself because they wouldn’t let me use the restroom, and going home, pulled me over in St. John with two police cars.
I got asked at least eight times by different people if I owned any guns or had any in the car, both when I arrived and left.
I don’t think I will ever go up there again.
Leave it to CNN to seek out America haters for a story for whatever reason - even the World Series.
What’s funny is that the last time the Blue Jays won a World Series, is the last year a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, 1993.
Heh, well good thing the Red Sox finally won one after all those years, otherwise they might be the weak sisters of the league!
This is a new low even for the commie news network.
Are any of the Blue Jay players actual canuck syrup slurpers?
Who’s the funniest guy in Toronto?
Any American tourist.
Yes, the Canadian economy is hurting, but it's not due to Donald Trump, it's due to over 10.5 years of Liberal rule. Let's start with bills C-69 and C-48. Banning new pipelines and banning tankers off the BC coast are Liberal policies and have nothing to do with President Trump. The mass immigration of the past few years is the result of Liberal policies, not President Trump. And subsidizing these immigrant's wages at the expense of Canadians is a Liberal policy that has nothing to do with President Trump. Canadians are suffering from a crushing tax burden, stagnant wages and an increasingly intolerant Liberal government that seeks to stifle free speech and dissent. Mark Carney ran on a platform that basically called President Trump a boogeyman and that he would stand up to him. And what has he accomplished? Higher tariffs and no new trade agreement. And Doug Ford's $75,000,000 ad campaign just made matters even worse. Canadians need to stop believing all their woes are due to President Trump, because they're not. Their woes are totally due to the enactment of Liberal policies over the past 10.5 years.
Trudeau also pushed a “green economy,” focusing on clean energy, carbon taxes, and climate-friendly policies, which slowed investment in oil and gas and other traditional industries.
Mark Carney played an indirect role: as a global leader in sustainable finance, his ideas influenced Canadian banks and investors to favor green projects over carbon-heavy ones. At the same time, uncontrolled immigration and restrictions on new housing construction meant that more people were competing for the same limited resources — the economic “pie” stayed roughly the same, but each person’s slice got smaller. All of this together helped explain why Canada’s economy felt stuck for much of the last decade.
According to AI.
It’s all about the Jays, no matter where we are in the world.
Let’s go, @BlueJays 🇨🇦 #WANTITALL pic.twitter.com/FHVijoauQa— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) October 30, 2025
Los Angeles is in America?
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