Well, that didn’t take long: the applause from the few socially-distanced attendees for Joe Biden’s repeated call for “unity” in his Inaugural Address had barely died down before the 46 th president had already eliminated his first 1,000 jobs. Seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, one of Biden’s first acts was to sign an Executive Order killing the Keystone XL Pipeline…a much-needed project that would have carried over 830,000 daily barrels of oil from Canada to the United States. Calgary-based TC Energy announced that due to Biden’s order, it was immediately eliminating over 1,000 construction jobs; industry analysts predict the shutdown will strike a blow against America’s energy independence. Oh, and also slash 10,000 jobs in the U.S. and Canada before the shutdown is complete, siphoning $2.2-billion in payroll out of workers' pockets.