London, Ont., snowbirds among Canadians saying so long to Sunshine State over Trump’s threats [Video]

When wintertime calls, go where it’s warm.

More than one million Canadians do just that every year, including heading south to the U.S., most often to Florida.

Dorothy Chabot and her husband were among them. The London, Ont. snowbirds have travelled to the Sunshine State for the past 15 years, owning a condo in Port Charlotte and more recently renting at a 55-plus community southwest of Orlando.

But this winter, as U.S. President Donald Trump continued threatening punishing tariffs against Canada and annexing it as the 51st state, the couple decided they’d had enough.

“We decided that at the end of February we were not going to sign our lease again. We were going to give it up, and we were going to stay in Canada and be very supportive of our country,” Chabot told CBC News.

Chabot said a number of her neighbours were supportive, but recalled a frustrating interaction with one who gleefully told her, …