The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 10:00 EST

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get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says as many as 500,000 Canadian jobs could be affected if Donald Trump carries out his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods. These tariffs will affect every single person. Even if they don't think they're tariffed in their sector, it's going to indirectly affect them. It's not going to be good. Ford's comments come as the Premier's prepare to meet tomorrow with Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau. Ford says he plans to ask Trudeau to develop a financial assistance program for workers impacted by the Trump tariffs. Amid speculation that he is planning to run for the Liberal leadership, former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appeared last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A wild hypothetical. Let's say the candidate wasn't part of the government. Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience. Let's say the candidate did deal with crises. Let's say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now. You sneaky! You're running as an outsider.

I am an outsider. Sources have told Radio Canada that Carney will formally launch his campaign on Thursday. As for other potential liberal candidates, there are a number of high-profile liberals who at this point may or may not be preparing to throw their hat in the ring. Janice McGregor has more. Sources tell CBC Radio Canada that former minister, Christia Freeland, will formally announce and kick off her leadership bid sometime within the next five days or so. But in the meantime, two current ministers who've been pondering a run against her are going to be out today at a trio of events.

None of these events are campaign launches per se. Francois Philippe Champagne is doing a noon hour fireside chat at the Canadian Club in Toronto. He will be taking questions from reporters and after a week of saying he's thinking about it, we'll see if he's prepared to call it. Carina Gould is announcing some government funding in her riding in the morning. Then both of them are slated to appear together at another fireside chat event at the Chamber of Commerce in Gould's riding later in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan

Wilkinson is in Washington for the next couple of days speaking to Republican legislators and other influencers about the value of Canadian exports. If he is still pondering a leadership run, it doesn't seem like he's focusing on that this week. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. A newly released report is showing that Donald Trump would have been convicted of election interference had he lost the November presidential election. The report from U.S. special Counsel Jack Smith was released earlier this morning. Richard Madden reports from Washington.

A hundred and thirty pages where outgoing special counsel Jack Smith essentially defends his investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He says Trump abused his power, pressured state officials, and quote, inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence when the votes were being certified on January 6 2021 in a series of criminal efforts to retain power Smith says he believes there was enough evidence to convict Smith resigned last week ahead of Trump's inauguration and he denies accusations his case was politically motivated saying it's quote laughable but he does acknowledge he had an uphill battle to begin with,

citing the U.S. Constitution that bans prosecuting a sitting president. And while much of the evidence was already public, it's all now moot. Now, there's a second chapter that gets into Trump's handling of classified documents, but a judge has banned that from being made public, so the Attorney General is heading to court to fight for its release. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Qatari officials say a proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement is now in the hands of both Israel and Hamas.

Their proposal is believed to call for the agreement to be ruled out in three stages and would, among other things, see the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.