EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News caught suspected Antifa church attacker (INSIDE the Defence department？!)
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Rebel News' Quebec Bureau Chief Alexa Lavois joins host Ezra LeVant to discuss the latest on the Antifa cell suspected to be operating from a military base in Quebec, Canada. Plus, a new suspect in the case.
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suspected to be operating from a military base in Quebec.
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It's October 2nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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but sometimes in English Canada, we don't follow it
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because of the language barrier and the cultural differences.
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Well, luckily, Rebel News hired Alexa Lavois, our Quebec bureau chief, a few years ago.
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And boy, has it opened up a whole new world for us.
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And I realized that Quebec is the front line in so many battles for freedom.
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And so it was a couple of months ago when an American pastor named Sean Foyke.
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He came to Montreal as part of his nationwide tour, and his specialty is outdoor singing-accompanied preaching.
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It really was outrageous censorship, religious censorship, too.
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The church said, you can come and pray with us.
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I'm so glad in a rare move of backbone, the police in Montreal called the SPBM kept the Antifa out while Sean Foyke had his service with him.
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He walked in like any stranger might, sat down.
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And then you can see it on this security footage.
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He reached into his pocket and pulled out two incendiary devices, two smoke bombs.
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And casually, as if he had done it a dozen times before, threw the smoke bombs on the stage.
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Who knows what could have happened from the smoke itself or if there was some sort of fire that was lit.
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And I can understand why police didn't catch him as he walked out calmly, because police did not know what had happened inside.
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We saw what happened and we called for a reward.
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No one came forward, I think possibly because of a language barrier.
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But in the end, we actually managed to identify him.
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Joining me now is our Quebec Bureau Chief, Alexa Lavoie, who has taken that story from that terrible day when they tried to smoke bomb a church.
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Thank you for being such a courageous reporter.
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So we found the person who smoothed through the smoke bombs.
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We're not 100% sure because he won't confess to it.
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But boy, it sure looks like him on the security footage.
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Tell me about the man who we believe is the Antifa smoke bomb thrower.
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So I got a couple of people reaching out to me and they all mentioned the same name.
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Well, whoever was first, we have to pay them the bounty.
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So let me know who that is, because we did offer a cash reward.
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But they add all the same name, the same place where it was working.
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And so I say, let's go and check in the Internet what I can find under this name.
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And what I was able to see, it's multiple pictures of him that was almost similar of what of the man in the church that we had like videos of him exiting inside of the church as well, because the church had security cameras.
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They told me that it was not working since the event.
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And so I waited patiently that he's back at work.
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And he came back not last week, but the week before.
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And he works in IT at the military base in Montreal?
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He works as an engineer of, I know he's working with computer.
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I don't know the specific work he's doing, but I'm pretty sure he's working with sensitive data.
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So for doing his job, I know that he needs that or he's going to lose his job.
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I mean, when you think about it, IT is a major battleground between countries.
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And for someone to have IT clearance on it, for someone to have access at all to military base, you need a certain level of clearance to have IT access because you would have access to secrets.
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You would perhaps have access to emails from key people.
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Canada is part of something called the Five Eyes, which is the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand.
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Sort of like the super-duper close friends of NATO.
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Tell me what happened when you finally met him in the street.
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Let me show people when you bumped into him with a picture.
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We won't play the whole thing for you now, but take a look.
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Can you confirm if it's you on this machine, Mr. Lepage?
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Why did you go to the United States for a certain time after that happened?
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What kind of data did you manipulate the National Defense Department, Mr. Lepage?
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Well, he obviously, I think he was expecting you because I think his behavior was, like,
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he wasn't, like, he may have been slightly surprised, but I don't think he was stunned
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He must have known we had a bounty out for his name.
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And the fact that he was away from work for a couple of months, you got some inside info
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Why was he away from the base for a couple of months?
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So according to my source, he was met with supervisor.
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And probably he was asked about the videos that apparently he denied, according to my source.
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And then he took off for almost two months from the job.
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I don't know if it's because he wanted the dust to settle and that people forget about the story and that afterwards everybody go to something else.
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But it seems like, obviously, he didn't want to be with maybe colleague or, you know, people are talking.
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And apparently, according to my source, on the department, Lepage colleagues were aware of the church incident.
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And so, well, I mean, it was quite an incident.
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The only crazy thing was that the police didn't treat it with importance.
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We did our own sort of crime stoppers in English Canada.
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Even now, as far as we know, the police have not arrested him.
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It's almost like he's being protected because he certainly, as far as we know, has not been fired or even suspended from his job.
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And according to my source, after my interaction with Gabriel Lepage, the employee were met with the supervisor.
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Apparently, the supervisor went really, really mad.
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And they say, like, do not leak any information to media.
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So they were mad, not at Gabriel Lepage, but at someone who might have been tipping you off.
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And what they actually say is, like, there is a journalist harassing an employee.
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That's not harassing, but asking questions is harassing.
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J'ai appelé tout à l'heure et j'ai laissé un message pour avoir des nouvelles dans le dossier de l'Église qui a reçu deux bombes fumigènes le 25 juillet dernier.
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Je voulais juste savoir s'il y avait du nouveau dans le dossier.
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Oui, hier, j'ai entendu parler que c'était toujours sous enquête qu'il n'y a pas de nouveau dans le dossier pour le moment.
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Malheureusement, s'il y avait eu l'arrestation, ce serait du nouveau dans le dossier.
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Puis oui, on l'avait communiqué, mais là, pour l'instant, moi, je n'ai rien qui m'a été signalé en lien avec ça.
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Je m'ai fini hier, il y a eu une de nos chargées de communication qui a justement parlé du dossier.
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Et j'étais présent, ça fait que c'est ce qui m'a mis au fait de ce dossier-là.
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Mais non, c'est l'enquête suit toujours son cours dans le dossier.
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Puis bien évidemment, vous comprendrez que nous, même si on avait quelqu'un en vue ou quoi que ce soit,
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ou si on ne l'a pas, ce n'est pas des choses qu'on divulgue au fur et à mesure,
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parce qu'on ne veut justement pas donner de job aux gens si on a des targets en tête ou des gens rencontrés.
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Mais pour l'instant, c'est vraiment statu quo, c'est l'enquête qui se poursuit.
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There was something, when you were asking, you were walking with him on the street
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and you were asking him questions and he wasn't answering, but he was on his phone.
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He called the police and he made another phone call.
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But there was another violent force that was very quick to respond.
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Someone dressed from head to toe in what they call black block.
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So you're anonymous, so there's nothing about you that's identifying.
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Someone dressed in the full black block uniform on a bicycle came out of nowhere and attacked you
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after this Gabriel Lepage had been working his phone.
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And the fact that it looks like Gabriel Lepage managed to summon this Antifa street thug,
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wow did you saw that i just got attacked by what it seems like hensi fatigue that are protecting
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gabrielle lepage who is working for the national defense
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can you believe that this is canada 2025 under mark carney that this kind of people can work for
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the national defense he actually kind of broke my my camera so you started asking him questions he
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made some phone calls and out comes this person attacking you did you was there anything i i
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didn't catch it because i think it was in french what did he shout at you or what did you shout at
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him that bicycle person before they sped away so but there is two incidents of uh some people
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wearing like a full black block uh style who came to us the first one came and he asked me to
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sorry but get the out i don't want to say it uh so get the f out yeah get the f out
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il ya un homme violent qui vient d'arrivée qui vient de menacer là
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ouais appelez la police parce qu'il ya un homme violent ici non non j'ai dit tu décalisses
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savez que de qui que vous avez avec vous un homme qui a présumément me fait un homme que
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lancé deux bombes fumigènes à l'intérieur de néglise monsieur ah monsieur est-ce que vous savez de c'est
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qui que vous êtes en train de protéger est-ce que vous êtes un antifa monsieur est-ce que vous faites partie des antifa
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and he said chum chum his buddy come and gabriel lopage went with him and so that so he now he you can
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call someone your chum even if he's not but it certainly looks like he they knew each other or were
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allies yeah and then they were about to walk a little bit further and then at that moment i
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decided you know okay the spvm is not coming the montreal police is not coming um i'm not going to
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wait for the spvm to find me with like harassment as they say in the phone call and i say okay well
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that was the crazy thing you call the police and they say oh yeah you stop harassing them they criticize
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you yeah exactly oh my god i was like i'm not going to wait because we know that the spvm doesn't
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like us and they will find something against me so i decided to live with guillaume uh that's our
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cameraman yeah my cameraman thanks god he was there with me and uh a few moments after two other mask
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thug came and the man because it was a woman in the man went straight to me violently and he attacked
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me wow wow wow and and did he say anything in that attack get the f out so not one but three people
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came at you i guess i i have to re-watch the video so one that was a woman with green hair
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in her car who came and she called the two other max mass men to come towards her after attacking me
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and i filmed with guillaume and then i turned back and they were everybody was gone wow you know what
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montreal is famous for different kinds of crime it's famous for hell's angels crime it's famous for mafia
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the mafia was quite strong here almost as strong as new york and now montreal unfortunately because
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it's such a beautiful city montreal unfortunately is now famous for antifa crime and i'm you know i
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want you to be careful and when we can plan ahead we have security for you and i think we should make
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sure uh of that because these people really are violent and you have exposed them now here's the
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craziest part you did your due diligence if you watch the video that you have you show all your
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homework you show your efforts you made inquiries you sent emails it's you did an excellent job of
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researching it and to me the surveillance footage it's obviously him but you know you still are using
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the word alleged because we don't have about 100 proven but what's incredible to me is the response
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by the police and by the military base it would be in the case of the hell's angels or the mafia as if
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they had an inside man as if the police were refusing to arrest someone who was like a godfather
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this guy as far as we know has not been arrested has not been interrogated he's still you know walking
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around with his security coverage security clearance and it looks like neither the police nor the military
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police have done anything as as far as you know to this moment have police even arrested and interrogated
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this guy no i called the police uh yesterday the police say there is no new development in this
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investigation they say that if they found someone they can't really divulge it and there's some truth
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to that but they can say okay we can't say who but we are like they can i mean let's if it's tough to
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give them the benefit of the doubt because so far they've done nothing it is true if they were
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investigating someone they wouldn't violate their privacy until they were making charges but i don't
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think they're i think they're covering up for him and i you know i spoke with joe warmington because
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he's from the toronto sun yes he's running a story uh at this moment so he asked me a couple of questions
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and this morning i went also to soga what's that the um missisoga oh saga 960 the radio station okay so
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is that mark petroni you were talking so mark petroni and joe warmington those are two good shoe
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leather reporters in toronto but that's the thing they're in toronto how about here in quebec yeah i
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went also on a couple of uh radio station i'm i really find that strange and no big media actually
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took back my story and maybe amplified it or even looked at i mean maybe they don't want to follow rebel
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news because they they they don't like rebel news i'm talking about la presse le devoir journal
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de montreal and even the montreal gazette and i like but they should put aside their rivalry with
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you i mean you're just one reporter you're you're for them to be scared of you they shouldn't they should
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look at the public interest in this story regardless of the fact that you broke it you've had
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no contact or even you don't even need contact because they can watch your video and do their own work
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as far as you can see no other media in quebec no let's talk about the radio shows but none of the
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newspapers i've just listed certainly not the cbc radio canada none of them did and it's because they
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like antifa maybe but is it because they are scared and they always use the easy way to cover their story
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if you see are they covering the uh public prayer no because it's dangerous you mean the public prayers
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the muslim prayers outside the catholic basilica yeah and they never actually cover where there is a
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danger for them to cover and and this is what we are doing we are putting ourselves in danger for
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covering the other side of the story because nobody is doing it those people those thug of antifa
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never ever ever face consequences for doing vandalism attacking people are doing all kind
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of criminal act and nobody's reporting on them the craziest part let me add one more layer of crazy
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antifa has recently been declared a terrorist organization in the united states i was mentioning
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the five eyes security alliance how can a canadian military base have someone with security clearance
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who sure looks to me like he's involved with antifa and it sounds like he can summon antifa troops very
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quickly how can that continue when our allies are calling that that would be like a hamas person
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i mean it is an illegal terrorist group in the united states you would think that alone would make
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it an interesting news story for someone in montreal now you did a couple of radio shows this morning
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here in quebec tell me about those because that will make me feel better that it that actually it's
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not a complete blackout on the story um monsieur dutrizac i i know the name but i don't know him well
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he is he's been around for a very long time he's sort of famous and he had you on the show right he has
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me on the show because he is the first one to be i think he's the first critic against valerie plan
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the mayor he is always exposing what is happening in this city it's getting sorry a shithole uh the
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city is dirty it's not safe anymore we have a lot of radicals uh the police is not doing the job that
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they are being paid for doing it um protests in our street every weekend the police is not doing
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anything regarding that there is a hate speech there is uh vandalism there is a attack there is
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harassment police is not doing anything and this is the reality of montreal and thanks god dutrizac is
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one of the voice in the mainstream he works for quebec corps is that right yes that's the biggest media
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company that uh in quebec yes it is but you know cube radio is like a really small part of quebec car
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it's a little bit more conservative leaning same if they are not but still you have they let you in the
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door and you had another radio show today too yes i have uh so i went to so patron this morning and i'm
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going to uh radio x in quebec oh those guys for a very long time they've been a little bit
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freedom oriented they were skeptics of the lockdown they're free speech activists and they've been
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friendly to rebel news yes they always been and they are giving us a platform to show our work and
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i think it's important because there is so few media outlets actually there is us who are doing
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on the ground reporting and who are showing the other side of the story what the mainstream media
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try to hide under the carpet now i want other media to cover this because i think it's in the public
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interest but as the boss of rebel news part of me it's not the bigger part but there is part of me
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that says oh if they don't want to cover it the story is ours we own the story and
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i mean i want everyone to talk about this because our country needs to fix this problem montreal needs
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to take ownership of the problem but it's okay if we are alone because with the internet you can get
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hundreds of thousands of views even if you're a small company and your work covering when these pro
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hamas protesters had their prayer right outside the big catholic basilica some of your videos were
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getting hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views and like you say other media didn't cover it
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maybe because they're afraid afraid of being called racist afraid of being called islamophobic afraid of
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violence perhaps so they didn't cover it you did hundreds of thousands of views and it became such
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an issue that the premier himself said he was going to do something about it it was your work like i
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it was covered in a tiny bit by others so in a way i don't care if the others cover it because we're
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going to be there and we'll do the job and we'll grow because people will realize that if they want
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you know our motto telling the other side of the story we'll tell the other side of the story
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i just wish for montreal's sake that all these like you know uh if you were on a quebec or show
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quebec or owns a journal de montreal which has a pretty good investigative unit and they should
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go after antifa maybe they're afraid in some way so let me ask you what's next in the story don't
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give away any secrets or anything but it seems to me that there's a lot more to be asked what do
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politicians think what does the military think what is the u.s embassy maybe because sean foyked
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he was an american citizen so an american citizen was attacked by antifa and it looks like the
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perpetrator was working in a canadian military base and and by the way not only all these shows
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were canceled by the federal and now we have a federal institution right where someone is working
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for them went to true two smoke bomb inside of the church and now it seems like nobody seems to want
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to arrest him or charge him with anything we need to ask ourselves what happened there you boy you're onto
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something i've got a crazy possibility what if the decision to ban sean foyked was informed in part
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by the canadian military and what if gabrielle lepage was the one who said ban him i don't know i'm
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purely speculating but sometimes governments ban people because they have police warning or terrorism
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warning what if the warning came from antifa what if antifa used its position within the government
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now i'm just pure speculating here but that's because we don't have any transparency from the
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government and and i think that the police and the military police and the department of defense
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they have some explaining to do and i came i'm coming back on what i was saying about joe warmington
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he did some speculation but he say what if during this whole time he's been awake
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they are they cleaning the computer right he is an it guy he would be maybe what do they call it beach
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bit bleach or bleach bit that's what hillary clinton did for her files maybe they've been using the
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time to cover their tracks but because if it was and i'm saying if it was a mosque you think that the
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person who would have done that will not be everywhere in the front page of all media right
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right this is a very interesting story one of several big stories you've had recently
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i think you're doing great i want to make sure that when you go out and about you and guillaume that you
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have at least two maybe four bodyguards and that might sound excessive but let's do that for the next
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little while because i don't want people dressed in black head to toe coming on bikes or hitting you
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and antifa has no compunction about hitting a woman it's in fact they would prefer to do it because
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they they they don't care about they don't have any honor they're about violence we have a mutual
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friend named andy no a reporter from portland oregon they tried to kill him they actually tried
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to kill him i know that sounds shocking and you are their chief critic and investigator so i want you
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to stay safe we've already talked about strengthening your own security in your life so please air on
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the side of caution there's no story worth hurting yourself over but i love your courage and your
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bravery and same with guillaume um what's the website for people who want to chip in to support you protect
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you and keep your journalism yeah if you want to help us to make sure that our home is safe and i'm
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safe with my cameraman guillaume roi that is doing an incredible job uh on the ground please go and
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chip in at stand with alexa.com thank you in advance for giving what you can can be just a couple of
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bucks thank you yeah i don't want to get into the details but making sure that these guys are safe at
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home we've done this for some of our other reporters before drea humphrey out west when that monster
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jonathan yaniv threatened her family we helped her with some security again i'm not going to get into the
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details because we don't want the bad guys to hear it and with avi amini down in australia too where
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they were threatening his family that's just terrible um i believe that the journalism we do at rebel news
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is courageous and i measure that by the fact that our reporters are doing things that other report
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companies reporters are not i don't know the real reason why all the newspapers in montreal plus the cbc
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are ignoring the story i don't know i can't think of any good reason um they don't want to follow rebel
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news's lead they don't have to they can just go with what's in the public now i think that they're
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afraid of antifa or maybe someone in their company is afraid or maybe they've been told to turn a blind
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eye i don't know i find none of those answers satisfying stand with alexa.com thanks for your support
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and boy she's on a roll with so many important stories and guillaume roi who has the tough job
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often of walking backwards at high speed that's a very difficult job by the way being a cameraman's
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hard enough and he of course is uh an editor as well and does other things we call him a videographer
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well listen montreal is a beautiful city and there's so much uh in its favor but it has some deep
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problems too who would have thunk that a conservative oriented news website from toronto and western
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canada would care so much about montreal but i mean it's a lovely city and it's got some of the
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same problems we have in toronto and calgary and alexa lavois shining a lightest scrutiny and you know
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they say sunlight is the best disinfectant and we are going to shine a light on the problems here and
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hopefully that'll help fix it well that's it from my brief trip to montreal from us here at rebel news
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to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom merci mon ami thank you very much