The flight time from Ottawa to the Mirabel cargo airport, a crow-flying 133 kilometres away, is about 19 minutes by jet.
For the average Canadian coping with a pandemic, that can be the wait time to get into a Costco.
And yet, Gov. Gen. Julie Payette is using a government Challenger, which takes a couple hours of pre-takeoff prep time and almost $5,000 an hour to defy gravity, for pick-ups and drop-offs at Mirabel en route to her Laurentian Mountain cottage. To reach the terminal via her chauffeur-driven car would take less than 90 minutes.
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