Forget the midterm election results - Canadians should still not vacation in the United States

The Globe and Mail · Marsha Lederman · 2026-11-06 12:00 UTC

This is not the end of the Donald Trump era. We are firmly still in it. The man is still President

What happened this week in the U.S. midterm elections was – as has been jubilantly reported wall-to-wall – historic, a blue tsunami, a firm rebuke of President Donald Trump. Bravo.

North of the border, on social media, radio call-in shows and the streets of this fair land, the relief, even joy, has been palpable. There is no other way to read the results than as a rejection of Mr. Trump, the President who targeted our country with his tariffs and his 51st state baloney.

And in that glimmer of hope that we might be returning to some semblance of propriety, diplomacy and normalized relations, I have heard more than one Canadian talk about the excitement of being able to vacation in the U.S. again.

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