Sept 22, 2026
Sorry Sen. Murray, Canadians Don’t Owe America a Rescue Mission 
Guard The Leaf
19.09.2026
Senator Patty Murray recently posted a video from Bellingham, Washington talking about the decline in Canadian tourism and what it is doing to local businesses.
Businesses are struggling. Staff are being laid off. Hours are being reduced. Some businesses have closed. And once again Canadians are being asked to come back across the border and spend our money.
But I think they are talking to the wrong people.
Canadians already understand that the US Tourism Decline is hurting communities that relied heavily on Canadian visitors. We understand what is happening to places like Bellingham.
What many of us do not appreciate is being made to feel guilty for choosing to travel elsewhere and spend our money in Canada.
This is bigger than tourism and Travel. The US Canada Trade War damaged a relationship that Canadians once took for granted, and that relationship is not repaired by showing us struggling businesses and asking us to come back.
n this video I react to Senator Patty Murray's message, the Bellingham business owners featured in her video, and some of the responses Canadians left directly underneath her post.
I also explain why this message bothers me personally. I grew up going to Washington State. I shopped in Bellingham, flew out of Bellingham, ate there, golfed there and spent a lot of money there over the years.
But Canadians are allowed to decide where we travel and where we spend our money.
f the United States wants Canadian travellers back, the conversation needs to be about why Canadians stopped going in the first place, not about making Canadians feel responsible for fixing somebody else's Economy.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sew_11S09a8
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