More US tourists visit Canada than Canucks travel to America for first time ever

Tourists from the Great White North are giving the US the cold shoulder.

In a surprise twist to the ongoing trade war between North American neighbors, July marked the first time ever more Americans road-tripped it to Canada, than vice versa.

That month saw 1.8 million US car trips into Canada, compared to 1.7 million Canadian excursions to the Land of the Free, new data from Statistics Canada released Monday found.

Travel in both directions is slumping, however, as trade tensions between the two allies boil over.

US visits to its northern neighbor dropped 7.4% from last July — normally the busiest travel month of the year — while Canadian road trips to America nosedived by a staggering 37%.

It marked the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines in tourism, following President Trump’s February announcement that he was implementing tariffs on Canada, while also joking that he planned to make the country the 51st state, which led to Canucks cancelling their US vacations in droves.

The two countries blew past an Aug. 1 trade-deal deadline and are now locked in a tit-for-tat tariff battle. The US is targeting Canadian goods not covered by the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement with tariffs of up to 50%, and Canada imposing 25% counter-tariffs on billions of US exports.