Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Minuses and Pluses

It is an ill wind that blows no one good ... that's a proverb first published in 1546 by John Heywood.

The Daily Wire reports Chinese tourists may be light on the ground in the US this summer, in reaction to the tariff+ battle. In this they resemble those Canadians who are choosing to stay home or go elsewhere. Who will be hurt? Tour companies, bus operators, hotels, sellers of souvenir tchotchkes.

Who will benefit? The hordes of American tourists who will visit our National Parks without being overrun by busloads of pushy, entitled Chinese tourists. Honestly, they won't be missed by vacationing Americans. 

We may miss the Anglophone Canadians who tend to be agreeable folk.