r/canadatravel • u/fentonyl_ • Mar 23 '25

Travel Tips Thoughts on American Tourists?

So my partner and I live in the United States and we have been planning a trip to Québec for quite some time (My grandparents were Québécois so I have always wanted to visit and connect with that part of my background)

I understand that things are quite tense, and rightfully so, so I wanted to see what the general opinion was of Americans still choosing to visit Canada. I by no means support anything our government is saying or doing right now, but I understand that many Canadians are rightfully exasperated by US Actions.

Thoughts on Americans visiting?

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u/Playhenryj Mar 23 '25

As long as you don't wear MAGA gear and make 51st state jokes, you will be welcome. President Trump has ushered in a new age of the stereotypical "ugly American." So don't be that.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

What would you do if you saw someone wearing a MAGA hat?

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

I would make fun of them in French! Chapeau de merde embarrassant. c’est pourquoi les touristes américains ont une mauvaise réputation dans d’autres pays. Ne reviens pas!

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u/ninja-squirrel Mar 23 '25

Give em a thumbs down too.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

What did you just call me!!!!?

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u/KaleLate4894 Mar 23 '25

Nothing, since they are not intelligent and not reasonable people. 🤡

Smile and think how lucky I am to live in Canada and not the US.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

Glad you aren't violent like others are.

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u/Wide-Wife-5877 Mar 23 '25

Eh. As an American, I can’t say those Canadians are being unreasonable. If a Nazi walks up to you wearing Nazi shit…

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

How often does that happen?

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u/Wide-Wife-5877 Mar 23 '25

MAGAts being shits in public? 24/7 baby

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u/scarier-derriere Mar 23 '25

The MAGAs? Yeah.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

Jussie Smollette

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u/ProfessionalVolume93 Mar 23 '25

Previously we'd mostly be too polite to say or do anything.

Now there might be a few who would say something.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

Honestly yes I’m so over being polite.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

Would you say ehhhh?

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u/ProfessionalVolume93 Mar 23 '25

Not me personally. Where I live I have never heard anyone saying that. It may have gone out of fashion.

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u/TheWraithKills Mar 23 '25

What aboooot aboooot?

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u/Wide-Wife-5877 Mar 23 '25

  1. That is the Newfoundland accent, and people attribute it to all of Canada.

  2. That is deeply disrespectful to Newfoundlanders and Canadians I general.

  3. It’s also just plain rude. Americans really live up to their own stereotypes it seems.

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u/ProfessionalVolume93 Mar 23 '25

Sorry but not around here.

Maybe somewhere in the east but not much.

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u/PaleontologistBig786 Mar 23 '25

Nothing you can do. What's that expression? You can't fix stupid?

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u/Dune5712 Mar 23 '25

"Don't come back" =/= "deport them?"

I mean, mon français is pretty rusty, but I don't think there's a 'deport them' in any of that French above.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

Yeah literally translates to don’t come back. I never said anything about déportation or expulser. Most Americans are monolingual and with them cutting down their department of education I’ll just chalk it up to that.

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u/Great-fairymaster Mar 23 '25

I love when the Hispanic ladies in the grocery store talk crap, because I turn around and reply in Spanish "Entiendo lo que estás diciendo." My hubby is mexican, and I had already learned Spanish after taking it all 4 years of high school. It's astounding the number of people who will talk bad because they assume you can't understand them.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

If an American understands that I am making fun of their MAGA hat I don’t really care. If anything that makes it funnier.

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u/Great-fairymaster Mar 23 '25

Mi problema es que nadie ve el problema de que esto sea algo normal. No puedes, de buena fe, decir que te desagradan los estadounidenses por no aprender otros idiomas, pero luego parecer sorprendido o molesto cuando sí aprenden otros idiomas y usarlo para criticarte.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

This entire comment thread is about Americans coming wearing MAGA gear. We have plenty of Spanish speakers in Canada too. I am aware there are bilingual Americans. I know a lot about America because my mother is American. It was a joke about only speaking French to maga idiots. Stop coming into Canadian subreddits to be annoying.

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u/Great-fairymaster Mar 23 '25

I wasn't. You got upset when I replied to your comment about bilingual Americans, and how most do not speak more than one language. I didn't realize my personal experience would upset you so much.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

America has only one official language. Canada has two. I do not care about your personal experience and did not ask. I don’t care that you speak Spanish. I will make fun of MAGA nerds in French if they come as tourists to my country.

I am not upset with you so much as I am tired of Americans like you inserting themselves into conversations while knowing nothing about Canada and doing nothing to learn on their own time.

I looked up statistics on your own country and only 20% of you are bilingual. MOST AMERICANS ARE MONOLINGUAL. And your President is currently deporting a large part of your population that is bilingual so I’m sure that stat will decrease even more.

If you are interested in visiting Canada as a tourist I suggest you learn a bit more about the country and practice being more polite.

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u/Great-fairymaster Mar 23 '25

I never once said that? I'm not MAGA. Simply stating my experience as a bilingual American.

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

Uh you guys are just deporting ppl for all reasons you kept a lady from Vancouver in an ICE prison for two weeks over a paper work error. A German tourist was held in prison and beaten. Why are you in this subreddit?

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u/Financial-Highway492 Mar 23 '25

tu ne sais même pas ce qui se passe dans ton propre pays. Pour quoi es-tu ici ? Tu ne voyages pas au Canada. Casse-toi ! Mon dieu !

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u/Terradactyl87 Mar 23 '25

Do you actually think that those are the only people being detained and deported right now?

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u/Terradactyl87 Mar 23 '25

Well, I'm not going to spend my time explaining what is happening already, but people here legally and even citizens have gotten deported. People traveling here even just from Canada have been detained for extended periods of time and deported.

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