Ron DeSantis says that Canadian “snowbirds” are still coming to Florida in big enough numbers to facilitate a proposed reduction or elimination of property taxes.

Although the numbers appear to be in decline year over year when comparing the most recent completed quarter to its 2024 equivalent,

“They said that the Canadians were going to stop coming to Florida. And I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s true, because who would want to be in Canada in the winter or spring when you could be in Florida? Like, if you can get here, you want to get here.’ And so we have the numbers,” DeSantis said during the 2025 Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism on Wednesday.

According to VISIT FLORIDA , 640,000 Canadians came to the state during the second quarter of 2025. That compa

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