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Ever heard of Leamington, ON or Delta BC? Those cities make lots of tomatoes.

During an address to lawmakers at the state capitol in Tallahassee, the governor briefly mentioned Florida’s tourist numbers from 2024, boasting 142 million visitors, 3.3 million of whom hailed from Canada, he noted.

Maybe Florida will still get visits from its Southern neighbours, Texas and the Northeast, but most would be out for merely a weekend trip usually. Those millions from Canada are the ones willing to buy property, spend the big bucks over a whole season on tourism, and make your sorry state a less miserable and DeSantis-like place to live.

Shhh! Don’t spoil Trump’s War On Christmas plan to drone strike Santa Claus!

Snowbirds selling their properties and refusing to visit there will take their flags back with them. Florida’s tourism industry is really going to be missing the Canadians next winter no matter where the tariffs go.

For beer: Smaller local microbreweries and vintners are worried they might get pushed out on sales and shelf space to more famous brands and producing areas, e.g. Okanagan, Montréal, Niagara, Vancouver, Toronto taking over Winnipeg, Quebec City, Halifax, St. John’s, etc.

Other things, some things provinces are worried about competition, from places with lower tax or looser unionization rules.

Some were just that each province was asked to legislate each thing independently, so they never really consulted each other and came up with different solutions for the same aim. Ex. Hours of Service rules, car safety, professional licensing.

Some are worried about language laws (particularly French and official Indigenous languages in soms provinces).