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Matthew Taub: After Carney's announcement, Canadian Jews are discussing a Plan B

Rising antisemitism and a weak government response have forced families to ask: “Where would we go?”

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Years ago, my wife and I were out for a walk when she asked me a question that has never left me.

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“When did they know it was time to leave?”

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She was talking about Jewish communities in other countries and other eras — communities that believed they were safe, established and fully integrated into the societies they called home. When did they realize things had changed? How did they know that what was happening around them was not temporary? At what point did leaving stop being unthinkable and start becoming necessary?

At the time, it felt like a historical question, the kind of thing you wonder about but never expect to apply to your own life.

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Today, around Shabbat tables across Canada, a different version of that same question is being asked: If things continue on this path, where would we go?

That question alone should alarm every Canadian.

Not because people are packing their bags tomorrow. Most are not. But because the answers are already being discussed. Florida. Texas. Panama. Israel.

For most Canadian Jews, these are not vacation destinations in this conversation. They are possibilities. They are options. They are what has come to be........

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