The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 08:00 EST

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So five days a week, we have got you. Fact-checked, researched, reliable. Follow Frontburner. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With the final inaugural preparations underway across the American capital, Donald Trump today will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Katie Simpson reports.

Ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump. The moment Donald Trump supporters have so desperately wanted has finally arrived. On the eve of his return to power, the president-elect doubled down on his key campaign promises, spelling out his agenda at a victory rally. I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country.

We have to do it. We're not going to have a country like this. At the top of the list, Trump's mass deportation plans. Details expected to be made public through a series of executive orders. Other election pledges are to be addressed as well in additional executive orders with Canada on edge about possible new tariffs. Together we're going to cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, getting them back down, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories back to the USA.

Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. We'll have live coverage of the Trump inauguration ceremonies on CBC Radio 1. It gets underway at 11 o'clock Eastern. Throughout the day, of course, the Trudeau government will be watching Washington with great interest of concern the Trump tariff threats and when or if they'll be implemented. Janice McGregor has more. Janice McGregor For the Canadian political and business leaders gathering today, the vibe may be more war council than celebration.

Most of Justin Trudeau's ministers will be with the Prime Minister at a cabinet retreat today, but a couple of them are in DC, joining provincial premiers and business leaders to network and share strategies as they watch the inauguration. Here's Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. I think the Embassy of Canada is going to be a prime location. How we circulate is a bit more complex, but we hope to be able to engage with a number of people who are going to be key to the Trump administration. Yesterday, Finance Minister Dominique LeBlanc said Canadian officials believe they've done a lot of good advocacy work to prepare for today and they have a sense of how Canada

is going to respond in a fulsome way almost immediately if tariff orders do turn out to be on Trump's early to-do list. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is using his final hours as president to issue a number of high-profile pardons. They all appear to be preemptive pardons aimed at preventing charges from being laid under the next administration. At the top of the list is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who refused to back Trump's unfounded claims

during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also receiving pardons are several members of the House Committee that investigated the January 6th insurrection. They include Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Schiff of California. A woman in yellow knife is in the middle of a perplexing bureaucratic back and forth

with the province of Ontario. She's being asked by the province to repay a childcare bursary she received nearly 30 years ago when she was studying to be a nurse. Ethel Musa has the story. It was $1,245, which 30 years ago was a lot of money. Jennifer Craft says a childcare bursary from Ontario's Ministry of Colleges and Universities was critical in helping her attend college as a single mother with a two and a half year old daughter.

I don't think I could have been in nursing school without that option. Kraft is now a grandmother, but she was recently contacted by a creditor asking for that bursary money back because it says she failed to provide daycare receipts decades ago. Well, I don't even keep tax documents longer than eight years. How am I going to find 30-year-old child care bursary receipts? Kraft says she submitted the original receipts, and her daughter's daycare no longer exists, leading her to wonder... What's the statute of limitations?

In an email statement, the ministry says there is no limitation period when it comes to the collection of debts owed to the Crown. Ilo Musa, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.