PARK CITY, Utah — Karen Lavender and some of her Canadian friends were planning a trip to Utah, California and probably Arizona.

They wanted to see national parks. They canceled in the spring.

“Most Canadians,” Lavender told FOX 13 News in a phone interview from her home in British Columbia, “are not interested in coming to the States right now because of the threat to our sovereignty.

“It also would be the continual lying that happens from the current administration; the threats that we would become a 51st state.”

Lavender isn’t the only Canadian staying on his or her side of the border.

In July, Canada’s national statistics agency observed a 37% drop in Canadians returning from the United States by car. It was the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year decline. Canadian air tra

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