She's Gone...Pipelines are Not Sexy...Montreal's Backward Airport...Yes, The Jews will Survive...

Yesterday we said that Chrystia Freeland wouldn't last the week. We were correct. She resigned her seat today, effective this Friday, January 9.

Her last exit from the liberal party and Justin was public, ugly and didn't reflect well on her. While the people and places have changed, Madam Freeland has not the faintest hint of a clue on how to exit elegantly and quietly.

For a smart woman, she's not very smart. If she didn't see that the optics of working for another country while sitting as a member of parliament in her own country was a flagrant conflict of interest, she's pretty dense.

However, when it comes to taking care of her own money, she's very sly.

She'll still get her pension here, get paid from Oxford university and get paid by Ukraine. Wait till she shows up for work in a red dress looking like one of santa's elves. Better, wait till she starts talking like she just swallowed a gulp of helium.

Blanche, wouldn't you want to be a fly on the wall in those places?

One more thing. In her tweet today, she said the following:

One of the roles I will be taking on is as an unpaid advisor on economic issues to the President of Ukraine. This is a volunteer position, and I have consulted throughout with the Ethics Commissioner and followed his advice.

Doesn't unpaid mean the same thing as volunteer? It means you are not getting money. So why did she have to say the same thing in two different sentences? Because somewhere, when nobody is looking, she is going to be very handsomely paid.

And Carney is back to being 2 short of a majority.

Now that we see Trump went into Venezuela for their oil and of course to rid them of a brutal dictator, let's take a deep dive into Canada's pipeline mess.

Let's start with this: Oil pipelines are not sexy. Not the pipeline and not the topic. Given that, this industry is what keeps countries going.

Canada does export oil to the US but mostly through aging routes. In fact, it is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the United States, mainly from Alberta.

However...we are backwards in the way to do so via existing aging pipelines built decades ago. We ship by rail, but that's way more expensive and riskier. We also use trucks which is completely inefficient.

We are like farmers here. The Keystone pipeline was nixed. Energy East, another potential pipeline was also nixed after 'regulatory' changes and Quebec opposing it.

Regulations in Canada are archaic, stifling growth in the oil industry. Environmentalists have big clout here and there are endless federal-provincial disputes.

Ergo, we are sitting on a goldmine and because we can't get our act together, Trump went to Venezuela to get what he needed.

We will say that Pierre Poilievre wants a pipeline built immediately. We hope he can also get his act together, find his way to be prime minister and then build the pipelines.

Montreal's airport is quickly becoming a black eye for the province. Other cities have upgraded their airports and managed to keep going. Not here.

The airport upgrade seems to be run by the same people who redid the quebec license bureau website, which, after billions of dollars, is still not working.

If you need to get to the airport anytime during the day, plan on waiting an hour way before the airport exit to get to the terminal. And don't expect to park because there is no parking.

Expect to wait on your plane for a gate because there are not enough people to man them and don't expect your luggage in a timely fashion.

It won't take long before we read that Montreal's airport has dropped to, oh, 50th place in the world. And it's not going to get better anytime soon. Seems it's going to take ten years to finish the work.

It took 6 years to renovate La Guardia airport. Here? Ten years is the opening salvo. In ten years you'll hear they are behind schedule and will need another 5 years and another, oh, say, $20 billion.

We read a very long, but very good article about antisemitism. In short, it cannot be explained rationally.

The Jew-haters cannot put into words why they hate Jews and that is because it is other-worldly, as are the Jews.

That we have survived waves of Jew-hating people for thousands of years is well documented, even though the idiots running around with hamas flags think they are the first ones to go after Jews. Education is not a word in their vocabulary.

It was the last two lines of the article that woke us up.

...The Jews will once again have the audacity to survive. And Israel, the haven for history’s most beleaguered people, isn’t going anywhere.

What does all this mean? In a sentence, antisemitism will endure, and so too will the Jews.

So don't despair.

Good Shabbos

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