WE MADE IT! We’re here in Montreal for the Leaders' Debate!

Tune in to the debate itself — we’re live-streaming it at 5:30 p.m. ET, hosted by my colleagues Tamara Ugolini and Lise Merle.

Ezra Levant
  |   April 16, 2025   |   News Analysis   |   2 Comments

Against all odds, we made it here! Rebel News is at the government-run election debate, accredited and ready to go.

It almost didn’t happen — just like the last two elections, the government tried to block us, but we lawyered up and fought back, and won.

So I’m here, along with David Menzies, Sheila Gunn Reid, Drea Humphrey and Alexa Lavoie — plus a great team of cameramen… and our billboard truck and driver!

Tonight’s debate is in French, but of course it will be translated. And the questions afterwards — the main reason we’re here — can be in either language.

We’ll do our best to get our questions to the leaders, though I can already tell some regime journalists are going to try to physically block us from getting to the microphones. (They did that to us once before.)

Tune in to the debate itself — we’re live-streaming it at 5:30 p.m. ET, hosted by my colleagues Tamara Ugolini and Lise Merle. And make sure you watch to the end: that’s where the five of us will make our way to the microphones!

One of the other independent journalists here was very kind — he thanked us at Rebel News for fighting for freedom of the press. He said what we did made it possible for other citizen journalists to have the right to be here, too. And it’s true.

If you’re able to help us defray the thousands of dollars we had to spend on lawyers to get in here, please go to www.LeadersDebate.ca to chip in (thanks).

Please donate to support our independent coverage of the Leaders Debate!

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Mark Carney’s debate commission said Rebel News could send 16 reporters to cover the leaders debates — but secretly planned to muzzle 15 of us. Thanks to our lawyer Chad Williamson, we exposed their censorship scheme and forced them to back down before we could sue. Now five Rebel reporters — the biggest team at the debates — will be asking the questions the regime media won’t. But legal fights, travel, and production cost money. Please help us cover the $12,000 bill by donating today.

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Ezra Levant

Rebel Commander

Ezra Levant is the founder and owner of Rebel News and the host of The Ezra Levant Show. He is the author of multiple best-selling books, including Ethical Oil, The Libranos, China Virus, and most recently, Trudeau's Secret Plan.

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  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-04-16 19:23:20 -0400
    All talk and no resolution. Stop stopping and start starting. Those leftists all want government to run things. Only Pierre Poilievre has the way for private enterprise to boost the economy.The other three are just blathering. Only Pierre has the answer to unleash the economy from Liberal overlords.
  • Thomas Ackland
    commented 2025-04-16 18:03:45 -0400
    things to be asked & done, to drop bill 69 & bill 21 and quit talking about it and get that pip line in to the refinery in the east.
    this would be a good start.