Hearts of Oak Podcast Ezra Levant - Rebel News, Community Tensions, and Political Shifts amidst an Immigration Crisis
Jul 28, 2025
45:53
Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News, discusses immigration issues and civic activism in Canada during an interview with Hearts of Oak. He critiques mainstream media and praises independent journalism. Levant highlights the challenges posed by temporary foreign workers and legal immigration, drawing comparisons to Europe. He reflects on community tensions from demographic shifts, law enforcement's role in immigrant interactions, and the grassroots Freedom Convoy movement. Levant shares concerns about the Conservative Party's direction and announces his upcoming participation in a UK rally for free speech, advocating for global support through the Free Speech Mission.
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Partial Transcript [0:27] Introduction with Ezra Levant Hearts of Oak [0:24]And hello, Harts of Oak. Thanks so much for joining us once again. It's great to have our favorite Canadian with us. That is Ezra Levant. Ezra, thanks so much for giving us your time today. Ezra Levant [0:35]Oh, it's my pleasure. It's great to catch up with you. Hearts of Oak [0:38]Always good to catch up. So much to discuss and rebel news are everywhere. It seems as though, Ezra, your team are just always expanding. The areas you cover, the places you go, not even mentioning the avi all the way down, down under, but you seem to have always a growing team, new people that are covering what is happening and holding this. Certainly the Canadian government and wider to account. Ezra Levant [1:09]Well, thanks very much. I mean, we do love to recruit citizen journalists, so we're always keeping our eyes peeled. And by citizen journalists, I mean people who typically don't go to journalism school and don't come from the mainstream media. I use the word regime media now because so many mainstream journalists really are just spokesmen for the political media industrial complex. There are, of course, some exceptional examples to the contrary. I have to tell you, I really admire a lot of the journalism done by GB News. I think they're doing great stuff, especially on migrants. What they've been doing the last week in Calais, I think, is excellent. But on the whole, if you are an establishment news source, I really don't care what they say because I feel like I'm not getting the whole story. [2:02] Citizen Journalists and their Impact Ezra Levant [1:59]So at Rebel News, our motto is telling the other side of the story. And I love finding young citizen journalists and throwing them into the deep end. Hearts of Oak [2:09]Tell us about the situation in Canada regarding immigration, because in the UK, we have those, as you mentioned, and it was just on GB News, about those immigrant camps in France, in Calais, to try and get people over that small stretch of water, the English Channel, one of, if not the busiest stretches of water in the world. And we have a huge issue in that and also many other ways. Where does the pressure come in Canada in terms of the illegal immigration? Ezra Levant [2:40]Yeah, great question. So many folks come to the UK in dinghies. Ezra Levant [2:45]They just get in a boat and cross over. And by the way, once they're in the UK, they cross over from Northern Ireland into Ireland itself. So it really is a pipeline of refugee fraud. These are not genuine refugees. They're not coming in in a normal rules-based system. Everyone knows they're fake. Same thing in the United States where millions of people walked across the southern border under Joe Biden. In Canada, it's different.