@article{Kane_Popa_Li_Sommers_2021, place={Houston, U.S.}, title={Did Trump’s Tweet Disparaging Trudeau Impact Canada-U.S. Border Crossings?}, volume={9}, url={https://www.jsr.org/index.php/path/article/view/1081}, DOI={10.47611/jsr.v9i1.1081}, abstractNote={<p><em>&nbsp;</em></p> <p>The authors examine the impact of President Donald Trump’s June 9, 2018 tweet disparaging Group of 7 (G7) summit host Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada – United States border crossings over the Peace Bridge.&nbsp; The Peace Bridge is one of the busiest international border crossings in North America that connects Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.&nbsp; A regression analysis of daily automobile crossings between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2019 (using seasonality dummy variables and controlled for year fixed effects) revealed a statistically discernible reduction in the number of crossings (both east into the United States and, to a lesser extent, west into Canada) seven, fourteen, and even thirty days after the tweet.&nbsp; Words have consequences.&nbsp;</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Student Research}, author={Kane, Emily and Popa, Ariana and Li, Queenie and Sommers, Paul}, year={2021}, month={Jan.} }