Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:45:48 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Never mind the counter tariffs, which have been a huge reality check.
There is the boycott of American products and travel. Canadian travel to
the US is down more than 25. European travel is down almost as much.
Some people may not be worried but the people in the travel business
are.  Closer to home, the husband of my niece in California is losing a
lot of business. He deals commercial real estate and some of his major
companies are Canadian unions who fund their pension plans with real
estate. They pulled their money out of the US and it has alread cost him
millions.

American customs people always had a bad reputation for being rude and
aggressive. But now people trying to enter the US, come back with
stories about having been put in detention,without a lawyer and
without being formally charged, for days. Or their mobile phones and
laptops being "searched", without a warrant. It's become an unpleasant
police state.

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Bruce
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