Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Two crazy facts about the Algoma steel fiasco I didn’t know until just today

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I found out some crazy new news about this Algoma steel factory.

00:00:05.580 Did you know that the government that gave them half a billion dollars just two months ago

00:00:10.600 knew all along they were going to lay off a thousand workers? It's nuts. I'll show you some

00:00:16.580 footage of the CEO of this company basically admitting that the whole thing to see the video

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00:00:52.780 Tonight, two crazy facts about the Algoma steel fiasco that I didn't know until just today.

00:00:58.900 It is December 3rd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:05.020 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:16.880 Yesterday, I marveled that Algoma steel, which just announced the layoffs of a thousand workers.

00:01:23.400 I was shocked that they had the audacity to do that just weeks after receiving $500 million.

00:01:33.500 That's half a billion from taxpayers. $400 million came from the federal government and Mark Carney,

00:01:40.020 and another $100 million from Doug Ford's Ontario. Of course, the taxpayer paid the bill,

00:01:45.360 not the politicians. I thought, that's crazy. That's sharp practice. That feels unethical.

00:01:50.900 To cash a check and then almost immediately fire a thousand workers. And so I was puzzled,

00:01:57.700 and I said it last time in the show, I was puzzled of the official response from the government via the

00:02:03.680 graphic design jobs minister, Patty Aydoux. Didn't mention the money at all. But I missed this video

00:02:11.360 last night. Looks like the reason why the liberals didn't absolutely savage Algoma for taking the cash 0.98

00:02:19.180 and then firing a thousand workers is because the liberals knew about this all along. They knew that

00:02:24.640 the job cuts were coming, and they were fine with it, and they gave the half a billion without making

00:02:30.900 a condition. If you watch that CEO of Algoma say as much in a somewhat diplomatic way.

00:02:38.100 I think the government certainly knows our business strategy. It knows the pivot that we had made. It

00:02:43.720 knew very well that the extreme pressure the company was under. I don't think anybody would loan the

00:02:51.340 company half a billion dollars without asking very detailed questions about what our business plan was.

00:02:58.120 I think the core concern is how do we protect the ongoing Algoma steel? How do we make sure this

00:03:06.780 company is competitive, is viable? He said, I don't think anybody would loan the company half a billion

00:03:12.680 dollars without asking very detailed questions about what our business plan was. That's what he

00:03:17.260 said. Well, I'm not so sure about that. We learned recently that Melanie Jolie did not bother to read the

00:03:22.340 contract in which the liberals gave billions of dollars to Stellantis, the carmaker, which shortly

00:03:28.160 thereafter announced their layoffs too. So I think this CEO is overestimating the intelligence and the

00:03:34.920 fiduciary duty of the liberals, especially the obvious DEI appointee, Melanie Jolie. But yeah, he's

00:03:43.640 sort of in on it. They're all in on it, aren't they? So the government knew, which is why they're not

00:03:49.880 criticizing Algoma for pocketing half a billion and which is why the CEO isn't embarrassing the

00:03:56.000 government. Here's that rocket surgeon, Doug Ford. It's a tweet actually by a reporter who said,

00:04:01.440 Ontario Premier Doug Ford acknowledged that his government was aware that massive layoffs at

00:04:07.520 Algoma Steel were imminent well before the province agreed to loan the company a hundred million dollars

00:04:13.180 in taxpayer funds. Quote, the Titanic was sinking. So he took a hundred million tax dollars from people

00:04:22.460 in Ontario and invested it in the Titanic after he knew it was sinking. Hey, don't worry though. I mean,

00:04:30.920 the CBC went to work trying to clean up this mess. Look at this story. It was posted at around 10 30

00:04:37.440 PM last night when things started to fall apart. Algoma Steel is cutting a thousand jobs. So why did it

00:04:43.960 receive millions in government loans? Steel producer received 500 million loans in September,

00:04:49.220 $420 million in 2021. Yeah. So it's just under a billion dollars. Now I'm going to read to you

00:04:55.920 four paragraphs in a row from the CBC story because it is just a work of art. The journalists there,

00:05:02.440 just beautiful. Like you have to admire the pure government propaganda. You rarely see it executed

00:05:09.880 so well. So I'm just going to read it to you. Four sentences. Bear with me. Back in September,

00:05:18.280 the federal government boasted it was acting quote, to protect Canadian steel jobs with its announcement

00:05:23.740 of $400 million in loans to Northern Ontario based Algoma Steel. The money would help it quote,

00:05:29.300 adapt operations, stay competitive, and most importantly, protect the jobs and the workers

00:05:34.160 who drive the industry. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement at the time,

00:05:39.880 At the same time, the Ontario government said it would be kicking in $100 million of its own,

00:05:44.780 meaning the steel producer would be receiving half a billion dollars in government money.

00:05:48.840 But on Tuesday, just over two months after these announcements, Algoma Steel said it was issuing

00:05:53.040 1,000 layoff notices to workers at its flat in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This raised questions as to why

00:05:59.040 the steel company was receiving millions of taxpayers' dollars. Yet some industry experts suggest that the

00:06:04.700 funding is going to important, leading-edge technology that will drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions,

00:06:11.920 and it's all part of the cost of Canada maintaining its steel industry in the wake of punishing tariffs.

00:06:17.460 I don't know if that was written at the CBC or if it was written by someone at Algoma or if it was

00:06:26.080 written by the Liberal Party of Canada, but really all three have merged these days, haven't they? It's really

00:06:33.580 all the same. And they're all living off of the avails of you. Let me read this next amazing paragraph

00:06:41.440 from the same CBC story. The government support has been generous, said Peter Worian, an economist

00:06:48.420 with the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. But at the end

00:06:53.060 of the day, you get a major environmental improvement. There's a long-range plan, he said, adding that it

00:07:00.180 was the right thing for Ottawa to do. With the new technology, the plant was expected to cut

00:07:05.140 greenhouse gas emissions by 70 to 80%. Hey, guys, we burned through a billion dollars. 1,000 men have 0.98

00:07:15.580 been laid off. Hey, but did you know that we cut some greenhouse gas emissions for a billion dollars

00:07:21.940 worth of cash? Yeah, if that's your primary goal ahead of jobs, ahead of a successful business, you can

00:07:29.360 actually do that for free, you know, just to shut down the factory and then you have zero emissions.

00:07:34.920 In fact, you could have given, you could have given every one of those workers a million dollars cash

00:07:41.260 and had the same outcome. In fact, you would have lower emissions, wouldn't you?

00:07:45.820 Let me keep reading. The government gave them the money to incentivize them to try the technology,

00:07:51.280 being said, and talking about this new low-carbon technology. However, operating electric arc furnaces,

00:07:57.780 because they use more efficient technology, is much less labor-intensive, meaning a plant requires

00:08:04.360 fewer jobs, Mang says. If you can undercut everyone because you're producing so much cheaper than they

00:08:10.260 are, then who would not want to buy from you, Mang said. Really? So this new technology, this green

00:08:18.680 technology is so awesome trying to make steel without coal. It's so amazing that whoever does it just

00:08:26.860 absolutely crushes their competitors. But for some reason, the only people who do use this amazing

00:08:32.760 technology only do it when the government gives them huge wads of cash. Cash, is that what this

00:08:37.300 professor is saying? Only a professor would say that because they're paid by the government too.

00:08:43.240 Here's a union rep for the workers at Algoma saying there were absolutely no strings attached to the

00:08:50.780 funding that the companies would have to keep some workers on. It was all a deal from executive to

00:08:56.340 executive. Take a listen.

00:08:57.300 What is your message to those governments tonight, you know, following this news?

00:09:02.520 Well, they should recognize that we are taxpayers and it doesn't matter which party we support.

00:09:11.860 We are their citizens and they should be at least taking care of us. We're not asking them to find 0.92

00:09:18.060 us jobs. But what we do want is for them to attach conditions to funding that says common sense needs

00:09:27.680 to prevail and the workers need to be considered irrespective of what's happening with the company.

00:09:35.500 We're not asking for handouts, but we're asking our workers have brought this company back from CCAA

00:09:43.400 three times now. So we should be recognized by the government for attempting to keep the economy

00:09:48.900 going. So what are we paying for if not the jobs? Well, the environment. I mean, the net zero. That's

00:09:56.100 what Carney's all about. That's what we're paying for. It's just an incredible statement. Take a listen.

00:10:01.280 With the centerpiece of the liberal government's climate agenda, would that help you in your business

00:10:06.000 getting rid of that levy? Look, the carbon price is not our biggest problem right now. It adds,

00:10:15.780 you know, 10, $20 per ton of steel to our production costs. When we are EAF, when we're converted to the

00:10:23.240 EAF, our carbon intensity will be 70 percent lower. So we'll actually have an advantage versus our

00:10:30.920 competitive competitors in both the U.S. and Canada that are making blast furnace steel that have a much higher

00:10:40.380 carbon intensity. So we see that as a competitive advantage. We can deal with the carbon price. I think the

00:10:46.940 government needs to be mindful of the escalation of it. They have to be mindful that it never becomes a barrier to a

00:10:56.160 steel company being successful or never becomes a barrier to be able to continue to implement and

00:11:03.240 improve your operations. But as long as it doesn't become that and it's implemented in a reasonable way,

00:11:09.300 the carbon price is not the problem here. So this is awesome news. A thousand fewer workers. But hey,

00:11:15.360 guys, the steel will have a smaller carbon footprint. And that's totally going to be a competitive

00:11:21.060 advantage, including selling into the United States. What does that even mean? The steel is being kept

00:11:28.040 out of the United States because of Trump's tariffs, not because of carbon levels. No one in the world

00:11:33.620 says they're going to buy steel because it's a low carbon manufacturing process. No one in the world has

00:11:39.980 ever said that. That's like saying low carbon oil is a competitive advantage. No, it isn't. I mean,

00:11:46.560 customers buy oil from OPEC dictatorships and from Russia, from Iran and Venezuela. They literally

00:11:53.080 buy blood oil from Sudan. No one cares about a few puffs of CO2 in their oil. No one is making their 0.97

00:12:01.960 buying choices based on that. No one other than Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau even talk about carbon

00:12:06.880 emissions in oil or steel. Oh, and now the CEO of Algoma. I guess if you gave me a billion dollars,

00:12:14.220 I'd talk about whatever you want to as well. Hey, can I show you something from Canada's

00:12:19.080 newspaper of record, the Globe and Mail, which although it's owned by Canada's richest oligarchs,

00:12:23.980 still takes subsidies from the Carney government. Here, take a look at this. This was just last week.

00:12:31.300 Corporate citizen of the year, Algoma's man of steel, Mike Garcia. When Trump's trade war threatened

00:12:37.440 to sink Algoma, its American CEO, this year's corporate citizen of the year, launched Project 0.80

00:12:43.000 Superman and averted certain disaster. That was published just last week. What a joke the Globe

00:12:51.300 and Mail is. Oh, and look at this. Michael Garcia made $5.6 million personally last year. Now,

00:12:59.500 I actually think he's worth every penny of it. That's just a 1% commission on the half a billion

00:13:06.240 dollars he managed to squeeze out of Carney and Doug Ford. Totally worth it for Algoma investors.

00:13:11.540 He just brought in a half a billion dollars. Pay him $10 million, whatever. I'm not sure he's

00:13:16.780 corporate citizen of the year. I wouldn't call him businessman of the year. He's certainly not

00:13:21.300 employer of the year. A thousand laid off men would argue differently, but he's a pretty good lobbyist,

00:13:27.580 pretty good at working the Liberal Party to get money from them. That's a special skill set,

00:13:32.680 and it involves praising carbon dioxide reductions even while you're firing a thousand men. He'll do it.

00:13:39.360 He's your man. Oh, what's this from just five weeks ago? I missed this until today.

00:13:46.480 Algoma Steel CEO Mike Garcia leaving Steelmaker for personal reasons, but with no regrets. Personal

00:13:53.520 reasons. I get it. Take the 5.6 mil, lay off a thousand men, and then get out of town. He's literally

00:14:00.940 planning on leaving the town. It must be nice, although I wouldn't want to be that guy.

00:14:06.460 It's a club, though, isn't it? It's a cozy club. You got Mike Garcia. You got Algoma shareholders,

00:14:12.340 including big U.S. banks. You got environmentalists. You got the Globe and Mail. You got a half a billion

00:14:18.340 dollars in free money. It is a club, not an economy. It's a club, and you're not in it. Stay with us for

00:14:28.480 more.

00:14:28.660 We spend tens of thousands of dollars on security for our staff, but you can never totally protect

00:14:44.480 someone who's going out into the streets. Case in point, this weekend, when our Quebec team, Alexa

00:14:50.860 Lavoie and Guillaume Roy, were in the field covering a protest, even though they thought they would be

00:14:57.140 okay, we had three security guards with them, but you can never be 100% safe, especially if someone

00:15:04.560 sneaks up on you. Here, take a look.

00:15:06.540 Utterly outrageous. Guillaume had to go to the hospital for stitches, but even when Alexa was moving

00:15:32.440 away from the mob, some man with a baby in a stroller tried to assault her. Take a look at

00:15:39.860 this craziness.

00:15:41.140 Fuck you.

00:15:52.360 Fuck you.

00:15:56.480 Fuck you.

00:15:58.680 Fuck you.

00:16:02.940 Fuck you.

00:16:04.900 Fuck you.

00:16:07.280 Unbelievable. And there's no other journalistic company in the country that this happens to.

00:16:16.940 Joining us now from Montreal is our very brave Quebec team, Guillaume Roy, the videographer,

00:16:22.640 and Alexa Lavoie, our on-air talent. Guys, first of all, merci and thank you so much

00:16:27.780 for putting up with this. You shouldn't have to put up with it, but I spoke to both of you

00:16:33.360 when this happened. And you both said the same thing, that you will not let these attacks

00:16:38.060 stop you from doing your work. So, on behalf of our viewers, thank you.

00:16:43.400 Hi, Ezra.

00:16:44.680 Hi, Ezra. And it's our pleasure to tell the other side of the story, whatever the costs,

00:16:51.900 the physical costs that we are having.

00:16:56.940 Well, I'm very sorry this happened. Guillaume, show me your elbow. Is it still covered with a bandage?

00:17:02.000 No. Okay. So, how many stitches? Four stitches in it?

00:17:08.180 Yes.

00:17:09.500 Well, I'm very sorry that happened to you. And it was quite a serious injury at the time.

00:17:14.000 It was bleeding profusely. You had to go to the hospital. Tell me about the march you were covering,

00:17:19.520 because we knew that you needed security, but we didn't think you would get out of hand.

00:17:25.100 Tell me about the event you went to cover.

00:17:27.260 First of all, why we decided to cover the union protests, it's mainly because of the bill tree

00:17:34.600 that the CAX government actually proposed recently to ask the union to be more transparent.

00:17:42.280 And afterwards, we had Magali Piccard, who went out.

00:17:47.180 She also insulted some of the politicians, like Éric Duhaime.

00:17:53.740 She also went out saying she was at the war against the government,

00:17:59.300 and she was ready to paralyze Quebec with a social strike. 0.99

00:18:03.960 So, who is that? The head of the union was saying this?

00:18:06.640 The president of the union, the FTQ.

00:18:09.460 Got it. So, it was a very political union march, and you went there just to talk to people,

00:18:16.020 and you actually had some success. I saw you were talking to a marcher who seemed to be happy

00:18:22.060 to give you his point of view, right?

00:18:24.860 Yes, but, you know, union members represent the population.

00:18:29.440 There is some members that are favorable to freedom of the press,

00:18:33.840 and they actually like us, as well as others that they were not happy to see us,

00:18:39.740 and they were screaming us insult.

00:18:42.500 But, yes, we had, like, successful interview until those moms just came and surrounded us 1.00

00:18:49.880 and started assaulting us physically.

00:18:52.960 Now, Guillaume, someone came up to you, and it was, the thing is, in a situation like that

00:18:58.560 where you're in close quarters with people on purpose,

00:19:01.240 because you have to get close to them to ask them a question and put the microphone to them.

00:19:06.700 It's impossible to be in that close quarters without someone having the opportunistic chance to grab you.

00:19:14.940 I mean, if the goal was to keep you 100% safe, we'd have to stop you from even going there.

00:19:20.980 So, I'm sympathetic to security if someone sort of does a sneak attack.

00:19:27.020 Tell me about the sneak attack on you. How did it happen?

00:19:30.160 Who was it? Did you see them before they attacked you?

00:19:34.400 No, I didn't see them, because there were so many people this day.

00:19:41.060 It was a big march, like thousands of people.

00:19:45.700 Maybe the media said 50,000, but maybe like 10,000 people.

00:19:53.200 And it was very, like, crowded.

00:19:58.500 And just the moment before, the Antifa group were very excited,

00:20:07.480 and the agitator was moving around.

00:20:12.080 And one person had an interaction with Alexa about our boss, Ezra,

00:20:22.100 who is supposedly agitably racist against the French people.

00:20:30.000 I don't feel racist against the French people.

00:20:31.860 In fact, you guys, every time I see your work, it makes me love Quebec more,

00:20:36.040 because you give me hope.

00:20:37.240 I just want to say I'm not anti-Quebec.

00:20:40.160 You've shown me the opposite.

00:20:43.400 There's reasons to hope, and there's reasons to love.

00:20:47.000 So, whoever that was, they were wrong, Guillaume.

00:20:49.400 Yeah, and at this exact moment, someone put a pole on my backpack,

00:20:58.240 like, grabbed my, or grabbed the camera pole, whatever.

00:21:05.600 I saw nothing.

00:21:08.540 It was, it went very fast.

00:21:12.200 I was immediately thrown on the ground.

00:21:15.220 So, when I watched it after, I see, like, the speed that I heard the floor.

00:21:26.120 It's insane, like.

00:21:28.320 Well, I'm glad you didn't hit your head.

00:21:30.020 I'm glad you didn't land on the hard street.

00:21:33.760 Yeah, the backpack kind of protect me.

00:21:38.240 And so, like, some minutes, like, five minutes after,

00:21:45.340 I removed my jacket from my sleeve, yeah.

00:21:52.600 And I saw the blood, like, falling, like, everywhere.

00:21:58.900 Wow.

00:21:59.500 I'm so sorry that happened to you.

00:22:01.940 Now, then, did you go straight to the hospital,

00:22:04.360 or did you go to the police first?

00:22:06.020 What did you do next?

00:22:08.240 So, mainly, when I saw his elbow,

00:22:12.800 I knew right away that he needed stitches because it was open.

00:22:17.400 But, so, we couldn't actually move

00:22:21.340 because they were coming towards us,

00:22:24.220 the Antifa and all those radicals.

00:22:27.400 So, we tried to reach to the police,

00:22:30.700 and then the police helped us.

00:22:33.080 They actually called the ambulance.

00:22:35.280 So, Guillaume went inside for a vaccine for the tetanus,

00:22:39.440 and then the police helped us to go to the emergency,

00:22:44.920 where Guillaume was actually treated pretty quickly

00:22:48.840 because I was kind of scared.

00:22:50.500 I saw the number.

00:22:51.400 I was like, okay, is 68?

00:22:53.360 Is the 68 hours waiting?

00:22:55.220 So, but no, we had, like, a really quick service at the hospital.

00:23:01.600 Thanks, God.

00:23:02.360 Well, I'm very glad to hear that, and it's sort of scary.

00:23:06.080 I'm glad you got a tetanus shot.

00:23:07.260 I wouldn't have thought of that myself.

00:23:08.940 So, how about the police?

00:23:11.080 I'm glad they helped you.

00:23:12.600 In the past, the police have not been helpful towards you.

00:23:15.420 In fact, as many of our viewers know,

00:23:18.240 we're suing the Montreal police called the SPVM

00:23:21.220 because they have not lived up to their duty to protect you.

00:23:25.360 In fact, sometimes it feels like they're on the side of Antifa.

00:23:29.160 What did the police do?

00:23:30.840 How did they react?

00:23:32.760 Did they see the attack against you?

00:23:34.820 Did you show them the footage?

00:23:36.660 How did they get involved?

00:23:39.020 Well, first of all,

00:23:39.760 when we were first surrounded and physically assaulted

00:23:44.780 and people were screaming at us

00:23:47.140 and it kind of escalated,

00:23:49.500 police were nearby.

00:23:51.100 You can see it with the camera

00:23:53.500 that the yellow vest was just nearby.

00:23:56.660 They saw it.

00:23:57.640 They saw that there was some tension over there

00:24:01.020 and they never actually came to say,

00:24:03.800 are you okay, guys,

00:24:05.280 or trying to calm the crowd.

00:24:07.660 They literally just then walked,

00:24:10.860 but not walked,

00:24:11.680 but they took their bicycle

00:24:12.720 and they came towards us

00:24:15.280 and they stayed a little bit

00:24:16.340 and then Guillaume got assaulted

00:24:18.620 and then we had to go straight towards them.

00:24:22.060 They were really helpful at that moment.

00:24:25.280 They asked me multiple pictures

00:24:26.780 so they can go and look for the man who assaulted Guillaume.

00:24:32.220 I was quick to give them some picture

00:24:35.400 and at the hospital,

00:24:37.840 they told us that they caught the guy.

00:24:41.680 I'm very glad to hear that.

00:24:43.440 Now, I have enough experience with police

00:24:45.740 in Montreal and Toronto

00:24:46.860 to know that they can catch him

00:24:49.140 and then release him.

00:24:51.240 Do you know if the man has been charged yet?

00:24:54.900 Because arresting someone is fine.

00:24:57.160 Do we have any information about that?

00:24:58.940 It has been released with condition,

00:25:05.140 so it cannot be around Guillaume,

00:25:09.040 but the thing is they refuse to give us his name

00:25:11.940 because apparently he is proven unguilty

00:25:16.340 until proved that he is guilty.

00:25:20.480 But so far we need to wait for the Crown Prosecutor

00:25:26.360 to see if they will go ahead with the case

00:25:30.440 and put some charge

00:25:33.100 and we will see him probably in court.

00:25:35.760 Right.

00:25:36.340 Well, I certainly hope that proceeds.

00:25:38.640 We should have our lawyers send a letter

00:25:41.060 to the prosecutor insisting that it proceeds.

00:25:44.360 I know that if it was a CBC Radio Canada reporter

00:25:48.140 who was attacked, they would prosecute for sure.

00:25:51.420 And it's essential that the prosecution

00:25:53.900 treat you equally before the law.

00:25:56.560 I'm glad the police made the arrest.

00:25:58.700 It's up to the prosecutors now to prosecute.

00:26:02.080 How many security did you have that day?

00:26:04.720 I think it was three.

00:26:05.960 Is that correct?

00:26:07.580 We have three security guards.

00:26:09.660 You know, no other journalists in Canada

00:26:12.240 need security, but Rebel News does.

00:26:14.680 And this is one of my duties

00:26:16.440 as the boss of Rebel News.

00:26:18.140 And I think that maybe you should go out

00:26:20.440 with four security next time.

00:26:22.540 That would be like two for each of you.

00:26:24.700 And I say again, it's impossible

00:26:27.180 to reduce the risk to zero

00:26:29.040 because someone could walk up to you

00:26:31.140 in an inoffensive way

00:26:32.840 and at the last moment do something violent.

00:26:35.500 I think that's what happened here.

00:26:37.380 But if we have two, three, four,

00:26:41.260 whatever it takes security,

00:26:43.340 maybe it makes it easier to protect you,

00:26:45.360 to spot them, to catch them.

00:26:47.580 We can't get the risk to zero,

00:26:49.760 but we want to do our best.

00:26:51.020 And I'm very sorry this happened to you,

00:26:53.000 but I appreciate your courage.

00:26:56.120 And I don't know, Guillaume,

00:26:58.800 you have suffered a form of physical violence

00:27:02.380 in the service of our viewers.

00:27:05.640 You've sacrificed personally,

00:27:08.100 not just the pain,

00:27:09.720 but the wound and the waste of your time

00:27:13.680 and the shock of being attacked.

00:27:16.460 And I want to just say thank you

00:27:17.880 on behalf of all of our viewers.

00:27:20.480 Thank you for making a sacrifice.

00:27:23.520 I mean, you weren't, you know,

00:27:25.300 like a soldier serving in an army,

00:27:27.400 but in a way you are the army of truth

00:27:30.260 trying to get the facts

00:27:32.160 and you paid a physical price for that.

00:27:34.840 To me, that is worthy of our gratitude

00:27:37.640 and our admiration.

00:27:38.720 And I feel those feelings towards you.

00:27:42.440 Yeah, but you know,

00:27:44.060 we are ready to take some risk

00:27:47.120 by exposing those, like, violent people,

00:27:54.260 the violent culture in Montreal.

00:27:57.440 We need to show this to the rest of Canada.

00:28:01.860 So, I mean, we need security, of course,

00:28:07.520 and thanks for who is, like, helping us with that.

00:28:12.200 But, of course, we are ready to take some risk,

00:28:17.640 like, calculate risk.

00:28:20.680 And that's the key thing,

00:28:22.280 to be thoughtful about it,

00:28:23.800 to be calculated risk.

00:28:25.140 I know a word that Alexa uses a lot 1.00

00:28:27.400 is to be aware of your surroundings,

00:28:29.480 to be alert,

00:28:31.060 because just to, you know,

00:28:32.940 look around and not daydream.

00:28:34.980 I mean, I sometimes daydream

00:28:36.740 and I get on my phone.

00:28:38.260 When you're at an event like that,

00:28:39.840 you got to be looking around.

00:28:41.520 And that's why security are helpful.

00:28:43.920 There are other sets of eyes.

00:28:46.240 Well, let me say that on behalf of Rebel News,

00:28:48.980 we pledge to support you as best we can.

00:28:51.220 And I would turn to the viewers now and say this.

00:28:54.240 Security is our third largest expense here,

00:28:56.820 Rebel News, if you can believe.

00:28:58.040 We spend more on security

00:28:59.860 than we do even on rent and insurance for the office.

00:29:03.320 It's crazy.

00:29:04.400 But we have to do it

00:29:05.780 because we must protect our people.

00:29:07.480 And our Montreal team of Alexa and Guillaume

00:29:10.960 are doing amazing work.

00:29:12.040 You might remember a couple of months ago

00:29:13.880 that they exposed an Antifa criminal

00:29:17.040 who actually works at the Department of Defense.

00:29:19.480 And the police didn't prosecute him.

00:29:21.880 The police didn't charge him.

00:29:23.300 The prosecutors didn't prosecute him.

00:29:24.760 And I wonder if Antifa has some sort of detente

00:29:30.880 with the police, that they have an agreement

00:29:33.080 they don't fight each other.

00:29:35.100 I don't understand it.

00:29:36.260 But I know that Antifa hates our team

00:29:40.180 because our team exposes them.

00:29:41.820 So we must, must, must defend our people.

00:29:45.100 And we've taken some other steps

00:29:46.740 that I won't mention on TV.

00:29:48.060 But if, if our viewers can help me,

00:29:50.680 please go to standwithalexa.com.

00:29:54.400 Our security bill is thousands and thousands of dollars.

00:29:58.700 And we are simply not going to let our people be bullied.

00:30:03.320 I'm sorry that this one guy got through

00:30:05.900 and hurt Guillaume's elbow.

00:30:09.800 Thank God it wasn't worse,

00:30:11.500 but we're going to do our best to protect them.

00:30:13.540 And I think they should go out

00:30:14.800 with four security guards every time.

00:30:17.160 And, and we'll make sure we do our best.

00:30:19.520 So please help me help them

00:30:20.860 by going with standwithalexa.com.

00:30:23.360 And of course, the security is for both Alexa and Guillaume.

00:30:26.460 Last word to you, Alexa.

00:30:28.340 Are you still confident that we can tell the stories

00:30:31.700 from the streets of Montreal?

00:30:33.940 Oh, we'll never stop.

00:30:35.780 You know, whatever the cost it takes,

00:30:38.940 how many security guards I would need to have,

00:30:41.960 I'm not going to let them win

00:30:43.580 because it's exactly what they want.

00:30:45.580 They want us to stop exposing them,

00:30:49.280 but we will never stop.

00:30:51.040 But the thing is, you said it, Ezra.

00:30:55.600 Unfortunately, I don't know if the viewer remember

00:30:59.280 when me and Guillaume and our team

00:31:01.920 got followed by mask tug on October 7

00:31:06.780 for about like more than about 45 minutes.

00:31:10.320 And they were wearing gloves.

00:31:12.180 The Crown Prosecutor decided that they would not proceed

00:31:16.100 to go ahead with their case for criminal harassment.

00:31:21.000 This is another proof that they are protected

00:31:23.960 by not only the justice, but also by the police.

00:31:28.520 Because I got attacked multiple times

00:31:32.300 with sometimes chemicals.

00:31:34.680 And never, ever, those individuals were arrested

00:31:37.960 or charged with anything.

00:31:40.520 Wow.

00:31:43.160 We're going to do what we can using lawyers,

00:31:46.760 using security, using other tactics

00:31:49.400 that I don't want to say publicly.

00:31:51.480 And all I can do is say thank you

00:31:53.880 to the both of you for your bravery.

00:31:55.920 And I feel like you're there on my behalf

00:31:59.420 and on our viewers' behalf.

00:32:00.600 So whatever I would do for myself

00:32:02.180 to protect myself, I want to do for you.

00:32:05.200 If I was there and I was attacked,

00:32:07.100 I would talk to lawyers,

00:32:08.400 I would talk to security for myself.

00:32:10.320 And I want to treat you guys exactly

00:32:12.400 as I would treat myself if it was on the front line,

00:32:14.780 because you're there for me and for us.

00:32:17.560 So I pledge to you my continued support,

00:32:20.260 and I thank you for your courage.

00:32:22.040 And don't let the bastards grind you down.

00:32:24.920 Don't let them win.

00:32:26.480 Keep your spirits high

00:32:27.620 and know that you have millions of fans

00:32:29.660 across the country and even around the world.

00:32:33.580 Thank you, Edra.

00:32:34.400 Thanks, we appreciate it.

00:32:36.520 Thanks, guys.

00:32:37.540 Hey, if you want to help me out,

00:32:38.840 go to standwithalexa.com.

00:32:49.880 Hey, welcome back.

00:32:50.880 Your letters to me on Algoma's layoffs.

00:32:53.960 Phillips Debb says,

00:32:55.320 Algoma replacing workers with automated green tech.

00:32:58.960 Yeah, I don't even believe that, though.

00:33:01.500 I saw the same thing in the United Kingdom,

00:33:03.500 where one of the last steel mills,

00:33:05.880 the government said,

00:33:06.940 well, we'll pay you billions of dollars.

00:33:08.940 Please, please, please try this low emissions technology

00:33:13.480 that no one is using it,

00:33:15.760 other than those that the government pays to use it.

00:33:18.240 It doesn't even work.

00:33:19.420 And of course, that's not the problem in Canada.

00:33:21.380 The problem is the tariffs that Trump is putting on.

00:33:24.020 But you're right.

00:33:24.700 Jobs are being cut in the name of this.

00:33:28.600 It's just terrible.

00:33:30.500 Randy 3644 says,

00:33:32.080 It's hard to feel sorry for them.

00:33:33.880 I bet most, if not all of them,

00:33:35.140 voted for this guy and then act surprised

00:33:37.020 when they get dumped on.

00:33:38.160 How much do you want to bet that they vote for him

00:33:40.560 or his party again?

00:33:42.760 You could be right.

00:33:43.720 I don't know.

00:33:44.080 I'd have to check the local voting statistics.

00:33:46.540 I'm guessing that steel workers

00:33:47.740 are pretty skeptical of left-wingers and environmentalists.

00:33:52.100 Of course, there's not as many steel workers today

00:33:53.940 as there were two days ago.

00:33:55.100 Isn't that right?

00:33:57.440 Rory Zettler says,

00:33:58.880 Carney has a long-term plan.

00:34:00.520 He hedged on Canada going bankrupt,

00:34:02.500 therefore allowing himself to profit

00:34:03.920 off another country he doomed.

00:34:06.820 You know, I do not understand

00:34:09.180 why he won't sell his stock.

00:34:11.660 He won't sell his stock.

00:34:13.100 He won't tell us what his stock is

00:34:15.140 or what it's worth.

00:34:16.080 He claims that he recuses himself

00:34:18.200 from discussions about subjects

00:34:20.160 touching on his stocks,

00:34:22.020 but he won't tell us what those are.

00:34:24.420 And it's obviously not true

00:34:26.080 because steel and environmentalism

00:34:29.100 and tariffs,

00:34:30.300 that touches on his,

00:34:33.560 you know, he had 600 companies.

00:34:35.480 Many of them are energy and steel oriented.

00:34:37.600 He's obviously not recusing himself.

00:34:39.720 I don't know how this is permissible.

00:34:41.380 You know, so many Canadian journalists

00:34:43.760 on the left are riveted by Donald Trump

00:34:46.700 and constantly accusing him

00:34:48.320 of padding his own wallet

00:34:50.920 and his family's businesses

00:34:52.340 when that is actually what Mark Carney is doing

00:34:55.660 and refusing,

00:34:56.840 at least we know what Trump owns.

00:34:58.360 He owns some golf courses.

00:34:59.940 He owns some,

00:35:00.920 he's into real estate and casinos.

00:35:02.680 We know what Trump owns.

00:35:03.940 We don't even know what Carney owns.

00:35:06.180 We don't even know how much he owns.

00:35:07.660 It's really crazy.

00:35:09.520 We're allowing ourselves to be ruled

00:35:10.960 like some banana Republican. 0.79

00:35:12.700 It always comes back to the same thing.

00:35:15.400 Carney pays the journalists in this country now,

00:35:17.680 doesn't he?

00:35:19.280 That's our show for today.

00:35:20.980 Until tomorrow,

00:35:21.760 on behalf of all of us here

00:35:22.780 at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:35:23.880 to you at home,

00:35:24.800 good night

00:35:25.120 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:26.760 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - December 04, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Two crazy facts about the Algoma steel fiasco I didn’t know until just today

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