This week, we need to talk about what’s happening between Canada and the United States. Not the cleaned-up version you hear in official statements. Not the reassurance designed to keep markets calm. The reality. Because what’s unfolding right now isn’t just another trade disagreement. It’s something quieter, and in many ways more serious. It’s the slow weakening of an economic relationship that generations assumed would always hold.
And the signs aren’t showing up where Washington usually looks.
They’re showing up on the ground.
Let me start with something concrete. Something measurable. Tourism.
Over the past several months, Canadians have been canceling trips to the United States at levels that border economies are not accustomed to seeing outside of a major downturn. Hotels in Buffalo are reporting vacancy rates that feel uncomfortably familiar to anyone who remembers past recessions. Restaurants in Detroit are quietly cutting staff hours. Ski resorts in Vermont are revising seasonal forecasts downward, not by a little, but enough to matter.
This isn’t about bad weather. It isn’t fuel prices. And it isn’t a sudden change in consumer taste.
What you’re seeing is behavior adjusting to perception. This is behavioral economics unfolding in real time. People responding to signals, to tone, to uncertainty. And when that happens at this scale, it’s not noise. It’s information. And it’s a signal that anyone paying attention should take seriously.
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