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Banning cruise ships from Canadian waters costs Canada hundreds of millions of dollars
International cruise ships have been banned in Canadian ports for some time. That ban is now extended until the end of February, 2022, due to the ‘perceived pandemic’. Affected by 135 year old American legislation requiring her cruise ships to stop off in Canada on their way to Alaska, British Columbia, Canada has benefited to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Now the U.S. is ready to eliminate and replace this legislation. New legislation would allow cruise ships to go up the coast without stopping off in British Columbia. The Canadian stop is irrelevant to the majority of cruise ship passengers. A recent survey of cruise passengers who take the Alaska cruises showed that nearly 81% found the stop-off in Canada was not particularly attractive. They cited the ‘shipboard experience’ and the Alaskan shoreline view as their main points of interest.
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81% of Cruisers find a Canadian stop irrelevant
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Annually, nearly 1.8 million passengers used to stop off in British Columbia on their way northward ever year. This hasn’t happened since Canada banned all cruise ships from putting into port. There is no loss, only gain, for American cruise ships. Meanwhile it is devastating to the British Columbia tour industry. When combined with the Canadian border shutdown it has nearly strangled British Columbia tourism to death.
According to harbour authorities in B.C., many tourists aren’t even aware of a Canadian stop along the way to Seattle until they look at shipboard itineraries. They go on to site the devastating effect of new American legislation allowing ships to bypass Canada altogether.
The rub is this: Once cruise ships are used to bypassing Canada, it behoves the cruise companies to completely eliminate the Canadian option. Cruise prices won’t go down, but operating costs will since these ships no longer have the expense of docking in Canada. Staying out of Canada will actually benefit cruise lines and possibly tourists as well.
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The bottom line here is this: Once again, through draconian legislation and hitlerian controls, Canada has shot herself in the foot through their gross overreaction to the hysteria of the China Virus.
I’m Max, and that’s the way I see it!
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