Sorry to hear this, but unfortunately I am not surprised. Back in the 1990s until about 2001 you couldn't walk down the street anywhere in downtown Vancouver without finding a majority of the population was American tourists. Then the CDN dollar shot up, passports became required, and then this new attitude began. The BC economy tanked. I still do not think tourism has recovered even though the CDN dollar is super low again and has been so for at least 2-3 years. Tourism is huge to the BC economy, almost 30% or some crazy high number. They want it all to be high-income tech workers now so it is all focused on becoming an H1-B visa workaround destination now, mostly for Microsoft employees and other big corps that have hit their quotas in USA. Would be nice if tourism was a thing in BC again but I don't know who would champion it, all of the companies shut down or moved to the US.