First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...

A slow and subtle Exodus of Jews in Canada is happening, and it's not a good sign.

I didn’t expect to be talking about the Exodus of Jews in Canada in 2026, yet here we are.

You may think, I’m not Jewish, this doesn’t matter to me, but it does, let me explain.

Antisemitism is so bad in Canada that it required a speech by the Prime Minister at Toronto’s oldest Jewish congregation Holy Blossom Temple. Mark Carney’s speech acknowledged the problem even if he didn’t offer up any real solutions.

“Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,” Carney said.

That is an understatement to say the least.

Antisemitism in this country predates October 7, 2023 and the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that killed eight Canadians, but since then it has exploded and has largely gone unchallenged. Schools and synagogues shot at, arsons, graffiti, attacks on community centres, on Jewish owned businesses and it all started before Israel responded to the Hamas attacks, so don’t blame that.

After Saturday comes Sunday…

“First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” isn’t a nice phrase about how after they come for the Jews they will come for the Christians, it is a rallying cry to do so. It’s been documented for years across the Middle East and the Levant and was first given prominence by British-American Bernard Lewis in 1976.

After they come for the Jews, they will come for the Christians and then anyone else opposed to their viewpoint.

We have a coalition of Islamic supremacists and people on the far left who just don’t like Western civilization who are driving this. The red-green alliance, spotted so often with their use of the watermelon as their symbol cannot be allowed to win in Canada.

The Exodus has begun, it doesn’t need to continue…

That Jews are now leaving Canada due to antisemitism is undeniable, I wrote about it in the Toronto Sun earlier this week. We’ve got high profile people like best selling author and academic Gad Saad leaving and relocating to Mississippi while Montreal doctor Emmanuel Moss, the chief cardiologist at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital is moving to Atlanta in part due to antisemitism.

Last week I interviewed Michael Sachs, a Canadian who relocated his family from the Vancouver area to Tulsa, Oklahoma. He now helps others looking to relocate and the group he works with, Tulsa Tomorrow, has already seen about 50 Canadians visit in an exploratory trip, another 50 slated to go soon and a waiting list of people looking to explore the possibility.

Yes, Tulsa.

People in Canada are looking to trade life in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal for a new life in Tulsa driven in large part by antisemitism.

You can watch my interview with Michael here.

The American South is now safer for Jews than Canada…

I’m not one of those Canadians who looks down their nose at the United States or the Southern United States. That said, historically, for minorities like Jews, places like Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, or Oklahoma weren’t considered great places to be.

Heck, they often weren’t great places for Catholics like me to be.

Clearly that has changed, and Michael discusses that in our interview. Canadians should be asking questions about why this Exodus is happening and what we should be doing to stop it. Since publishing this I’ve heard from friends and contacts about people who want to leave including a doctor and a lawyer.

Another friend noted that he’s heard from business owners who are looking to relocate. This is a brain drain, this is a culture drain, it is a failure to address the violence and hatred that we have seen on our streets, much of which I have documented, at least in Toronto.

If you are successful and have the ability to leave then you can move to a lower tax jurisdiction that has better weather. Eventually your connection to your community starts to fray as you watch Jew hatred spread unchecked.

Carney made his speech, but his party has clearly done the math and figured out that there are far more Muslims here than Jews. I don’t think most Muslims in Canada are trying to drive out Jews, but I’ve been to the protests in the streets where those calls have been made that there are enough people who think that way, and they have their allies on the left as part of that red-green alliance.

The Full Comment on Carney’s speech…

Last Friday, I sat down with Talia Klein Leighton, of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, Amir Epstein, of the Jewish activist group Tafsik, and political activist activist Ariella Kimmel. I know each of them, but didn’t speak to any of them ahead of the podcast other than to ask if they could join me.

Each of them panned Carney’s speech for their own reasons. Late in the episode we spoke about the Exodus issue.

Do you realize that Canadian Jews are looking to move to Panama to escape the hatred aimed at them?

That’s crazy.

From the official show notes:

A prime minister walks into a synagogue for an antisemitism speech and makes things worse. It’s not a joke, as our three guests all agree. Because Mark Carney and his government fear landing on the wrong side of Muslim leaders and their voting blocs, they say, his lecture on preserving Canadian tolerance refused to acknowledge why it’s so endangered: radicals who so rabidly hate Israel that they’re destroying Canadian values with their violent attacks against Jews. Brian is joined by Talia Klein Leighton, of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, Amir Epstein, of the Jewish activist group Tafsik, and activist Ariella Kimmel. They explain the shock in their community after Carney’s speech and how more Jews say they now realize the Liberals are not their friends. (Recorded June 5, 2026)