The Blanche Report Sunday Edition

The sun rose the next day, the dust settled, the pundits had their say and the pollsters are gloating. The election is over.

If we were part of the backroom boys (and girls) we would be taking a good hard look at ourselves. To put it bluntly, they ran a bad campaign.

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We’re no great fans of Kory Teneycke — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager, the one who got him elected three times. But he was the first to publicly say that Poilievre’s team was blowing it. At the time, it felt like betrayal. In hindsight? He wasn’t wrong.

It was quite the political earthquake as Ford and Teneycke clearly don't like Poilievre, but they were telling the truth. Saying in reality what had to be said.

At the time we were angry. But as the days kept passing and Poilievre simply could not pivot from his axe the tax echo chamber to the issue on every Canadian's mind, we had a bad feeling.

The elephant in the room was Trump — the silent third wheel in a marriage and we know that never ends well. Poilievre's team refused to acknowledge that reality and that blindness cost them.

If we were him? We’d fire the whole crew and start fresh. One thing’s for sure — Teneycke won’t be riding to the rescue. The blood between them isn’t just bad — it’s toxic.

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As for Poilievre losing his seat, that's called, as we learned, political malpratice.

For starters, it was no secret that the map of that riding had changed since the last election and what used to be a full out conservative riding, now had more than half liberal voters.

Secondly, his opponent, Bruce Fanjoy (seriously, that name sounds like an illicit movie), spent the last two years door knocking. So coupled with the fact that Poilievre went to his riding maybe twice during the campaign and it changed to a more heavily liberal riding, he was done.

Poilievre has to thank his lucky stars that Carney is the furthest thing from a drama queen as one can get. He's 100% no nonsense and said he will call a by-election as soon as Poilievre wants one.

And finally, if the federal conservative party doesn't get its act together, we are doomed to a socialist, liberal, woke government for many years to come.

As for Anthony Housefather, it is unbelievable that he has given at least three interviews whining about Neil Oberman's dirty campaign. We will say this again - Neil ran a clean, energetic campaign. Period.

What we believe happened is that Housefather finally realized that the Jewish community, his community, is done with him. In every interview he keeps saying how much he did for everyone over the past years.

Buddy - nobody is taking that away from you. But guess what? We don't live in the past and right now, the Jewish people in Canada are facing outright antisemitism which most of us have never experienced.

He chose to stay in bed with a government that seems to be oblivious to this at best, supportive of our enemies at worst. And for that, he will pay a steep price.

He needs to grow a pair and grow up. He made the decision to stay in the liberal party and has to live with the consequences. Enough whining like a little boy who had his baseball mitt stolen.

What happened in Israel yesterday is not good. The houtis shot a missile which for some unknown reason, Israel was unable to intercept.

It hit meters away from terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport, shutting down the airport for hours.

Israel was just getting back on its feet after October 7. Tourism is starting up again because planes are flying.

Yesterday, Lufthansa, Spanish airline Air Europa, Air France, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Air India and Hungary’s Wizz Air announced they were cancelling flights for Sunday, with some cancelling flights on Monday and Tuesday as well.

We don't follow Israeli politics like we do North American but we do know one thing: Israel better deal with Yemen very quickly or they will be in big trouble - economically and physically.

We'll talk...