We used to be the Canadians

Canadians at the border crossings in the northwestern-most county of the continental United States just keep on coming.

According Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, about 300,000 Canadian-driven cars crossed over the border from British Columbia into Whatcom County this July to shop and buy cheap American gas. That was about four times as many bargain hunters as the BPRI researchers found when last they surveyed traffic in July 2007