I don't think anyone wants a drawn-out political thread, but I'll say my final piece here:
MAGA is full of hot air and theatrical rhetoric. Most of the outlandish stuff they say doesn't pan out to anything materially impactful for most people - in this case, I'm skeptical that Trump's harsh rhetoric and trade war shenanigans will mean a whole lot Canadians crossing the border.
With that being said, another poster here informed me of harsh scrutiny and interrogations faced by SPs coming to the US, so fair enough. I was ignorant of the issues SPs faced specifically.
There are countries the U.S. has serious longstanding tensions or is almost at war with - Iran, China, Belarus.
I've traveled to both Iran and China. Transiting to and back from both countries was mostly fine (got held up and questioned for 2 hours coming back from Iran but it was more annoying than traumatic & I kinda expected it).
I guess I have a much higher risk threshold for changing what I do based on international political tensions.
The shit between the U.S./Canada is child's play compared to that...even though it may be making the news in Canada even most political people here barely think about it.
Hope that clears things up as to why my appraisal of the current political situation is different from everyone elses. Admittedly, I was dead wrong on expecting SPs to come here.
