Steelworkers axed as leftists reject steel pipelines — Make it make sense!
Canada’s industrial collapse isn’t accidental, it’s the predictable outcome of a government that subsidizes failure while blocking the very projects that could keep steelworkers employed.
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Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, it's hard to imagine a more self-inflicted industrial disaster than this one: a thousand unionized steelworkers lose their jobs two months after Ottawa and Queen's Park poured half a billion dollars into Algoma Steel. Subsidies in, jobs out. If that's "building the strongest economy in the G7," as Mark Carney boasted in September, the phrase has lost all meaning.
Back in the fall, the federal government announced $400 million for Algoma, with Ontario kicking in another $100 million. The talking point was simple: protect jobs, promote Canadian steel, build prosperity. Yet here we are in December, and Algoma has announced layoffs affecting roughly 40 per cent of its workforce.
This is what happens when an economy is run from the top down, by technocrats who confuse spending money with creating value. Carney's vision isn't the entrepreneurial dynamism that built North America's great industrial centres a century ago. It's the sterile, centrally managed stagnation of a system where corporate survival depends not on innovation but on political favour.
And the political class is hopelessly out of its depth. Penny Hajdu issued a statement declaring the government is "standing with" steelworkers, as though platitudes count as policy. She cited "strong tools" to stabilize the sector.
Please see my statement below on Algoma Steel layoffs: pic.twitter.com/EmLiFEFXig
— Patty Hajdu (@PattyHajdu) December 1, 2025
Meanwhile, these same politicians obsess over reshaping the steel industry to fit green fantasies, demanding coal-free production powered by "clean electricity," as if centuries of metallurgical reality can be overwritten by activist aspiration. They lecture steelworkers on "transitioning" while knowing full well that no one transitions from a shuttered job.
And here's the bitter irony: the simplest, most obvious way to support Canada's steel industry has been sitting in front of them for years. Pipelines are made of steel. Northern Gateway, Keystone XL and Energy East represented tens of billions of dollars in construction, and unlike Algoma's bailout, none of that required taxpayer money. What it required was permission. And permission is exactly what Ottawa refused.
Carney and his cabinet can moralize endlessly about "clean energy," but the truth is plain: they hate pipelines more than they value steel jobs. If they didn't, they'd revive the projects their own government killed, create long-term demand for Canadian-made steel, and stop pretending that grants and slogans can substitute for actual economic activity.
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Cathie Wrightman followed this page 2025-12-03 10:07:35 -0500 -
Carl Linletter commented 2025-12-03 09:19:32 -0500What do we expect when we elect a Pagan/Gaia worshiper. If you reject God (which Canada has for the most part), this is what you are left with.
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Anthony Salotti commented 2025-12-03 07:46:16 -0500How’s that elbows up thingy working for you libtards ? More like elbows down and rear end up .
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Peter Wrenshall commented 2025-12-03 00:04:09 -0500A thought about the first part of Ezra Levant’s monologue concerning Mark Carney’s industrial policy: I’m getting somewhat annoyed with some people on our side of the political fence using the “Marxist” label against Carney. In fact, at least in terms of economic policy Carney is much closer to Mussolini than Marx. Conversely in my view, to the extent that any Canadian officeholder deserves the Marxist label, it would be David Eby in BC.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-12-02 21:23:43 -0500Reagan still is right. Government IS the problem. We have too much federal government which constricts investment. And socialism fails time and time again to benefit the masses. How long will low-information voters keep us under the Carney Liberals’ thumb? How poor does Canada get before people revolt? And how rich must America get at OUR expense?
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Matt Abrahams commented 2025-12-02 21:23:02 -0500Ezra, if it made sense you wouldn’t have a job.
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Paul Scofield commented 2025-12-02 21:19:59 -0500With all due respect to Danielle Smith, whom I like a great deal, the MOU signed with the liberals in Ottawa isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-12-02 21:04:06 -0500I’m frequently reminded of how much damage Thomas Berger did to this country with his phony-baloney inquiry 50 years ago.
The cancellation—um, er, “postponement”—of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline hurt Alberta as many companies involved with that project were based there. But, it also scuttled the prospect of prosperity for anyone living in the vicinity of the line, had it been built. (Think not just of the construction and operating jobs that would have resulted, but the benefits to local communities. Welders and operators need to have a place to stay, so hotels would have made money. They also need a place to eat, so restaurants and cafes would have done well. And that’s just the start.)
But steel producers across the country were gearing up to produce pipe. There was IPSCO in Regina, as well as companies such as Stelco and Dofasco that would have done a booming business at their mills. The capacity was there. All that was needed was approval from the federal government.
Carney, Eby, May, et. al., have doomed many people to near-poverty as a result. And, yes, there will be an NEP the Second and it will be much worse than the first one. -
Jane Vandervliet commented 2025-12-02 20:56:52 -0500Unless the crazy crisis climate change cult is removed from our governments Canada will break up. Canada needs our own strong ‘Trump’.
