Ezra Levan visits Algoma Steel’s Sault Ste. Marie mill, where workers back pipelines as a $1B steel demand solution to replace Trump’s 50% tariffs—despite $500M in government aid failing to prevent layoffs. He clashes with security over unclear property boundaries and criticizes pipeline cancellations like Northern Gateway and Keystone XL for Alberta’s job losses, while Rebel News investigates Guadeloupe’s Dec. 5 crash, dismissed as drug-related despite France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez’s terrorism warnings. The episode ties steelworker struggles to political neglect of energy projects, framing pipelines as a pragmatic alternative to subsidies. [Automatically generated summary]
I just got back from Sault Ste. Marie, where the Algoma steel mill is, and we had a very special question for the steel workers going into work early in the morning.
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We are returning all of the proceeds, every dollar, from those tariffs to protect our workers and the businesses that are most affected by this trade war.
Algoma Steel, based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has laid off 1,000 workers today.
We've got a very pro-steel message here.
I see that.
That's good.
Pipelines are made of steel.
Algoma makes steel.
It seems like a natural fit.
I totally agree.
That's great for the community, for Sault Ste. Marie, for Algoma.
They want to build a pipeline and let's use Algoma Steel.
I just love Canadian Steel.
50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America.
Trump cannot put a tariff on a Canadian project.
Yes, exactly.
Look at this.
You're putting up a big show.
Good morning.
We've been up since the wee hours.
And behind me is one of the gates at Algoma's steel factory here in Sault Ste. Marie.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, just across the river from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, shows how close this city and this company is tied to American markets.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump has other plans for steel, and he's put a walloping tariff on Canadian steel sold into the United States.
We're going to bring it from 25% to 50%, the tariffs on steel into the United States of America.
Nobody's going to get around that.
That's thrown this company into disarray.
Recently, even though the governments of Ontario and Canada have given $500 million to Algoma, they announced a thousand more layoffs, almost half of the company's workforce.
So we came here with an idea.
What would happen if we increased demand for Canadian steel here in Canada, beyond the reach of foreign tariffs, and not with some government giveaways or subsidies?
Those never work, and they certainly never last.
What if we came up with a real bona fide project paid for by the private sector that uses steel?
Well, I'm born and raised in Alberta.
I know a little something about pipelines.
The one thing I know mainly is they are made of steel.
A billion dollars worth of steel is what was estimated in the Northern Gateway pipeline that the Liberals killed.
They also killed the Energy East pipeline.
And then Barack Obama killed the Keystone Excel pipeline.
Those are three pipelines in whole or in part in Canada that could have bought steel from this company and kept these workers working.
So we did one of the things that we love to do.
We brought our big, beautiful billboard truck on the nine-hour drive up from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie, and we parked it here outside the gate.
And as the workers are coming in at 6.30 and 7 and 7.30 in the morning, we're asking them a simple question.
Do you think we should build a pipeline and use Algoma Steel?
Here's what they've been saying.
How are you?
We have a billboard truck.
We say build steel pipelines.
If we could get an oil pipeline from Alberta to BC, we could use Algoma Steel.
What do you think of that?
That's a perfect idea.
That's great for the community, for Sault Ste. Marie, for Algoma.
I love it.
I think it gives us jobs as Canadians, considering steel's not really selling in the states right now.
It's a good idea.
Right on.
Cheers.
You work here?
Yeah.
Good luck.
Yeah, thank you.
Thanks.
What do you think of that idea?
I agree.
I absolutely agree.
I think that's a good idea.
Pipelines are made of steel.
Algoma makes steel.
It seems like a natural fit.
I totally agree.
I just love Canadian steel.
Right on, me too.
You know, there'd be a billion dollars worth of steel in a pipeline from Alberta to the west coast.
I think it should be bought right here.
What do you think?
I think so too.
Right on.
I'm glad to hear you say that.
Listen, I wish you good luck.
Our heart's breaking for what's going on because Trump's putting the tariffs on, but Trump cannot put a tariff on a Canadian project.
Yes, exactly.
All right, well, good luck.
Thank you.
Nice to meet you.
You too.
I would take the opportunity, get more jobs out here.
What do you think?
I believe too.
You believe too?
Right on.
Good luck.
I totally agree with that one.
If you had one message for Alberta, what would you say about oil pipelines and steel?
I think go for it 100%.
It will help Alberta and it will help the rest of the country.
I sure hope we get somebody who wants to buy Canadians.
I hope so.
Thanks.
Good luck.
I support everything that makes Algoma great.
Right on.
Thank you.
Friendly guy.
He says he supports anything that makes Algoma great.
I can't think of a greater thing than to build a pipeline from Alberta through the Rocky Mountains to the coast.
It's an enormous project.
Well, about 80% of the cars stopped to talk to me.
Other people said they were a little bit late for work and no problem.
Only one person disagreed.
Well, he didn't really disagree with the idea.
He just didn't like Rebel News.
That's okay.
Not everybody does.
90% of the people who stopped to talk liked our idea.
Here's my conversation with a skeptic who thought we were being too mean to the CEO and maybe we were politicizing things.
Take a listen to what he told me and what I said.
Do you think it should happen or what are your thoughts on that?
My thoughts are you're putting on a show that's despicable.
What's despicable about it?
Your organization.
You don't like Rebel News?
No.
Okay.
Well, we're supporting the steel workers.
That's a matter in itself, isn't it?
Like, don't you think we should build a pipeline with Algoma Steel?
Better ways to support it.
Give me one and I'll let you go.
Tell me what we should do instead.
Be a decent journalist, Dave.
Okay, well, this is a real question, though.
I mean, the pipeline, it would take steel from Algoma.
What's wrong with that?
If we can get orders for a pipeline, that's great.
Okay, I didn't mean to stress you out.
I think it's a good idea.
Like, look at this shit.
You're putting up a big show.
We're trying to get it to people.
We're going to get political points while people are losing their jobs.
Well, our whole point is that you get jobs by building a real pipeline, a billion dollars worth of pipeline.
Maybe there you got a good point.
Well, that's the point I'm trying to make here today.
That's all I'm talking about.
You should consider that, and maybe they'll do that.
I hope they do.
Listen, I didn't mean to stress you out.
I believe that the pipeline is a smart way to get steel demand.
It's not artificial.
It's a real demand.
I've seen your other video about Algoma Steel, and it upset me very much.
What part of it?
Can I ask you?
It was a lot of lies in there, like what tell me when I because I did my research and I get to what did I get wrong?
The reason for the layoffs, trasing the ceos motives, making conspiracies about the liberals, and like none of this is based in reality, all right well this, i'm glad you told me what was on your mind and i'm sorry if I upset you.
Okay okay, good luck.
He says we poked at the CEO.
It's true.
I mean, he took $5.6 million.
He's leaving this year and he laid off a thousand people.
I'm sorry, I'm going to criticize the CEO.
I'm a free market guy by nature, and I'm not against wealth.
When the CEO makes 5.6 million bucks but lays off a thousand workers, I'm going to criticize it.
I'm sorry I hurt his feelings somehow, but my message is pro-steel.
I think saying we're politicizing things is sort of a little bit too late to say that.
This whole thing is being extremely politicized.
So he's threatening Canadian workers in auto manufacturing and workers throughout the industry's supply chain, including here at Algoma.
It was politics that put the tariffs on.
It was politics that put the half billion dollar federal and provincial money into it.
When it comes to protecting Ontario, I'll fight like I've never fought before.
Donald Trump thinks he can break us.
He thinks he can divide and conquer us.
He doesn't know what we know.
It's politics, especially by the federal government, that said, hey, Algoma, get off coal-fired steel mills and move to this new green scheme of electric arc steelmaking.
This whole thing is political.
And that's one of the reasons why Rebel News is here, is because public money and the public interests are at stake.
Algoma isn't just a private company.
It's a private company that is at the heart of a public battle and it's taken hundreds of millions, in fact, almost a billion dollars over the last five or so years.
Hey, just one side note.
When we pulled up, I introduced myself to this security guard.
I said, hi, I'm Ezra.
And he was pretty snarky.
I get it because he's probably had some frustrating media coverage over the last few weeks, frankly, over the last few years.
I'm Azra.
And I'm going to need to delete that.
Okay, I'm Ezra Levan.
How do you do?
Good, very good.
Okay, you're not shaking my hand?
That's not friendly.
You're on private property here.
Okay, we'll move.
We've got a very pro-steel message here.
I see that.
That's good.
If you want to just park on the other side of our parking lot, you guys can do whatever you want out there.
Okay, sure will.
You know, could I just give you 30 seconds?
Our message is, every pipeline means billions in steel demand.
I told you five minutes ago to move it.
Well, you're not my boss.
And you wouldn't even shake my hand.
You're trespassing.
Well, you wouldn't even shake my hand.
You're trespassing.
So the police are coming.
Okay, that'll be.
We're going to charge you, and we want all the video for this, too.
I'm sure you do, but you won't even shake my hand.
Why would I shake your hand?
You don't listen to me.
Well, it was the very first thing I said before you started checking me.
Sure, it does.
You're being mean.
You're trespassing, sir.
Well, we're leaving now, and you're being mean.
No, you're not leaving.
Well, yes, we are.
I told you to leave five minutes ago.
Well, you're not my boss.
They did ask us to leave the property, which we promptly did.
Nonetheless, they called some of Sault Ste. Marie's finest.
Two police cars pulled up, another did a patrol, I guess, looking for any more rebels out there.
Only three cruisers.
I feel like I'm not important.
No, no, you're not important.
I'm joking.
I'm Ezra Levan, and this is my friend Lincoln Jay.
What have they told you so far?
Well, when we were over there, they said that's our private property.
I said, okay, so we'll go on the, in fact, he said, go on the street.
Okay.
So that's what we did here.
And everyone, I wave at them when they come in.
I say, hey, I got this idea.
I said, I got this idea.
They're building the pipe.
They want to build a pipeline.
And let's use Algoma Steel.
So everyone is very friendly.
We stop, have a 30-second chat on the way in.
And the security guard there said, don't be up there.
Okay.
So we moved, and he said, move over here.
So we did.
Okay.
And now what have they, because they called us again.
Really?
Yeah.
What did they say?
Because they haven't talked to us since we left.
They said it was a trespassing issue.
But this is a public process.
At the end of the day, I'm going to ask them what their property is because it's my understanding that they own basically from West Street Inn.
I know you know your laws when it comes to trespassing.
I'm not looking to, I'm not looking to make a fuss here.
And so we immediately, well in 60 seconds, we moved.
And I think he's a bit cranky.
The fact of it is, I spoke to the VP of HR.
Oh, yeah.
And they're saying they own from West Street Inn.
Now they're saying it.
I know they're talking about it.
You're going to provide it to me when she gets in.
She obviously can't do it right now.
So for the time being, I'm going to ask you guys to go at least, I guess I'd be east of West Street.
Even though the company furnished no proof that they own the public street, we did move our truck.
I think it goes to the fact that Algoma wants it both ways.
And I'm talking about the corporation, not the workers.
The management, the corporation wants the public to give it money, but it doesn't want the public through journalists to ask questions.
I think you got to pick a lane.
If you are a private, reclusive, secluded company that doesn't like talking to the media, fine.
But then don't take half a billion dollars and lay off a thousand workers.
I think you have to have it both ways.
Speaking of which, here's Sault Ste. Marie's finest.
What's the word?
Nine meters, 30 feet.
Okay.
I think we're going to play fair deal.
Thanks for checking that.
It seemed a little long.
I wish every one of these steel workers well.
I want them to be working at this big, beautiful plant for a very long time.
The only way to make that sustainable is by having real customers, not by asking for more handouts from Mark Carney or Doug Ford.
That's why we're here.
And so far, the steel workers agree.
If you think that we need to build steel pipelines, why not go to our petition at buildsteelpipelines.com?
I don't care if you're left-wing or right-wing.
We need these jobs in Canada, and the only way to keep these jobs is with real customers, not handouts.
for rebel news i'm answer levance hey guys i'm back in toronto now What an exciting mission up to Sault Ste. Marie.
I feel very sad for that steel factory because without a natural big customer like a pipeline, I am very afraid that those jobs are not coming back.
And that's very sad.
Now, by the way, the oil patch has lost probably 100 times that in employment over the last decade because of anti-oil policies.
It's very sad as well.
Anyways, I was glad to go up there and was glad that the ordinary steel workers liked what I had proposed.
I don't know if that will amount to a hill of beans in the end, but it was nice to see.
Hey, while I was in Sault Ste. Marie, two of our team who speak French were coming back from the island of Guadeloupe.
French Christmas Market Attack00:10:26
Now, where is that?
What were they doing there?
Well, we saw a few days ago a crazy report that the French overseas territory, which is in the Caribbean, called Guadalupe, someone rammed their car into a Christmas market, injuring 19 people.
And I immediately thought, oh my God, that happens in France a terrifying frequency across Europe.
In fact, all these Christmas markets are targeted by Islamic terrorists.
Is that happening in Guadalupe?
Because it's happened in France.
There was a horrific case of an Islamic terrorist who got behind a huge truck and drove down the street in Nice, France, killing 83 people.
Just horrific.
And I thought, oh my god, has that come to Guadeloupe?
It was very hard to tell.
But there was an not-so-expensive flight down there.
It's not too far away from Montreal.
So we sent our French-speaking Montrealers there to find out: was this a terrorist attack in the Caribbean?
And here's what they found: Alexander Bois for Rebel News, and I'm currently in Saint-Anne, Guadeloupe, right here on Place Cholcher, in front of the church where the Christmas light illumination event took place on December 5th.
That evening, the municipality had gathered with families to kick off the holiday festivities.
C'était vraiment un événement pour introduire les enfants dans la culture locale, du chant, des festivités, des musiques sur la place.
C'était aussi pour allumer les lumières publiquement avec les enfants.
En fait, déjà, c'était pas un marché de Noël.
C'était l'illumination, c'était les lumières qui mettaient au niveau de la commune, les lumières pour la Noël.
Et en fait, il y avait des chants des enfants, des enfants qui chantaient des chants de Noël.
C'était des prestations qu'ils faisaient.
came speeding down this slope, lost control of his vehicle, and crashed into the crowd at the corner there, hitting several people, including children who were waiting in line at the food truck.
Some witnesses told us that no one died that night, but they described horrifying scenes, mentioning that a child had to be pulled out from underneath the vehicle and that the windshield was completely shattered, J'étais en train de m'installer et j'ai entendu les membres de mon groupe derrière hurler, crier, qui voyaient ce qui s'était passé.
Et en fait, ce qui s'est passé, c'est qu'il y a un homme qui était dans une voiture et qui a dévalé justement cette rue et qui a chopé toutes les personnes qui étaient en train d'attendre leur repas près de la roulotte et qui s'est encastrée justement près de la police.
So, there are more people, there are also children, so there are princes on the voice, just in the soul of the voice for grave.
But I was also in the cost of the rule, and it also pyramids who are securing security organizations, affected by the pyramid all the manifestation.
So, there have been a person, when people have barriers, to introduce accidents as well.
One point consistently comes up in the testimonies: the possibility of a terrorist attack is widely dismissed.
Locals described the incident as a serious accident linked to the driver's impaired condition.
Moi je dirais plus c'est quelqu'un peut-être qui était sous l'effet de l'alcool ou autre, mais pas terroriste.
Sur les 30 dernières années, ça n'existe pas le terrorisme en Guadeloupe.
Après, il faut quand même se concentrer et chercher les bonnes informations.
On a toujours un membre de notre famille qui est à la police, qui est à la gendarmerie, qui est au CHU, qui est à la préfecture.
Et les informations circulent.
Donc si effectivement il y a un doute par rapport au terrorisme, ça reste à confirmer.
Mais je comprends que certaines personnes puissent penser...
but many parts or not for the power.
If we have the article of President, there is a new French surviving person.
The soul, the emotions, and directments on the terrorist character or the character of Attack.
My pencil, all right, because we created and explained what it is in the Serbia.
It was arguably, but they were all, but not terrorists, who said that it was collision and stupid.
We talked about particularly in the country of this style.
Finally, if terrorists, I think, they had private and treatment and finally police and family in the situation.
However, Western countries are facing a growing level of terrorist threats.
This is why, on December 3rd, just two days before this incident, France Interior Minister Laurent Nunez instructed all prefect to reinforce security around Christmas markets, citing a very high level of terrorist threats.
Apparently, these measures were not implemented here in Guadeloupe.
We also remember the Nice attack, where a Tunisian national drove a truck into the crowd during the national holiday, killing many people.
And more recently, several Christmas-related events have been and continue to be targeted by Islamist extremists and pro-Amar supporters.
In this context, it was impossible to dismiss beyond all doubt the possibility of a terrorist attack in the immediate aftermath.
Especially today, when the information spreads extremely fast online and the public no longer trusts mainstream media for good reasons.
This is also why the rumor claiming 10 people had died went viral to the point where Elon Musk himself reshared it.
Today, we are bringing you the facts.
Ironically, the tragic event that took place last Friday here in Guadalupe happened right here, just in front of the police station.
Beaucoup de personnes qui ont évoqué la suspicion de peut-être une attaque terroriste pour vous.
Ah non, ah non, je pense pas.
I think it's going to be a problem, as drugs, situations.
I don't think it could be a part of that, but I'm not saying that it's a terrorist attack.
Hello, do you remember us?
I think it was to you that we talked about yesterday.
We sent you here to try to talk about it.
In Canada, we have So,
I was like, the community of South Carolina.
If you talk about this, we have the facilities that the community of the community is.
To verify the facts, we tried to go and talk with the firefighters as well as the police department and they all referred us here at the mayor's office.
So we took the time to have an interview with the mayor of Saint-Anne.
So we found that it is a car that goes parallel to the church, parallel also to the place of the manifestation, to the left where one or the other was erected, which sold food food, where people were waiting for food.
And so the car is passing in, about 50 or 60 people.
Mass Concerns in Guadeloupe00:07:30
Thank you very much.
There is a child, and it is our constant.
After I understand that the conductor we have, he was here, and there were stupidities.
So, every day, because he said, for the interior, because we are talking about the police, which is that everybody the colonel of Sapiennes, who has not operations, and all we have to do, ambulances, the members who are to the situation.
And everyone is better, and primarily, and my municipal concept, the colonel of Sapienni, is that you have a space to bless and vaguely cruise, all space for the crisis.
So, it is in the army, and every twitter could be a very good month, myself, for this past, but the pain that was in Atlanta,
as we have announced, I speak the subject, and everything in particular, the president of the president, and we adjust the organization for dispositions that are very because we can children to piggyback,
because they were visible on a child, the voice, in question, and other adults to the product and also affected and also impacted.
We had decided and this child blessed and grave.
But the vitality.
As you explain that today, it is the product.
The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nunaise, with reinforced security orders of risk of terrorists who explain that there is a reinforcement.
So, I think it's messages, but it is a very good illumination, my faith, or without dissolution.
We had the study between 35% on the face, my municipal place, and it is a very accidental.
So, we know, but how we have said, we can make sense, we can make it so that you do the suspicion that it was an attack terrorist attack, which you were because I think we are in France.
We are in Guadalupe, but it is my France.
We can not think, we are not terrified.
It is not normal, two normal administrations, we had three medications, software we had children who are in, because of what I said, I said the population for children.
It's the conviviality, it's the peace, it's the world, it's the respect of trials, and it's the part we are in the field, it's the news.
But it's not a chain, it's simple the inauguration for illumination as well.
It's all and not the mass of full mass that we can see in our country.
Because, in Guadalupe, you have people who are the children of other countries in my life.
No, it's no.
I confirm, it's not.
We had a lot of people.
No, We had 500, independent, they did good.
It was repertoire.
No, no, no, we don't.
I can see, we talked about England, we talked about England.
We can't have citizens who, but it's the Paris Guadalupe Paris, which are people who are decided, and that is basically the base after its own system.
But we merciful, we are in the European state in the world, and there are problems on that.
But now, we can precaution, I live, you can see there are no problems on that.
We can change the measurements, we talk about it.
But I can say, always not, and that we have this situation of lexicon of France in the situation.
Because I previously had this experience that we can do two dispositions to revenue.
because we also forget people who are alcoholics and people who are stupéfiants.
Is it a problem here?
In Guadeloupe, it starts to take a bit.
We have young people who succulent with stupéfiants.
We have people who are going to call it.
This conductor is the count of two children.
And it's not a child and to stay the same, it's a video that they change.
At the time, if the faith is manifestation, we can see and think that there are stupid people, who will, and other people can't live or because we see in France, and really augmentation of risks of terrorism in the view, a lot of times.
And what you have to decree is the most important and common repair beginning.
I think there are very vigilantes and on the security plan.
The French surveillance, we are the moment very villains of this dispositive surveillance.
And the people stranger who knows certificates or how to dispositive and attack because we are not, we are modern systems, and that we arrived.
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