The number of visits by Americans to Canada has dropped way off over the last couple of years. We, as Canadians, have to find ways to turn this situation around. The following are 12 action steps or things to highlight about Canada that will attract U.S. tourists, business associates, relatives and friends back over the border.

1) We promise to be polite.

2) Have Shania Twain greet them at the border. She’s on her own again, you know.

3) Get the message out that Toronto is Canadian English for Tijuana.

4) Canada is just a little piece of Cuba. You can get there from here and Cuban cigars are so smooooth.

5) Offer Americans free land in Muskoka.

6) The grass on this side of the border is greener. And more potent. That’s B.C. “grass”, man.

7) The “Canadian beer diet” just melts the pounds away.

8) Our illegal aliens are from outer space.

9) Offer them walk-on roles in Stargate Atlantis.

10) It’s fun to say “eh”, eh?

11) Tell them that if they don’t come, then they’ve got to keep William Shatner.

12) Let it slip that we have oil.

Alex Carrick

Find Canadian construction-related economic articles in Canadian Construction Market News and in the Economic Outlook section of Daily Commercial News.

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