The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 10:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The final push is on for the Canadian government to convince Donald Trump to reconsider his February 1st tariff threats. But with the clock ticking down, it doesn't appear the U.S. president has any plans to change his mind. Olivia Stevanovic reports. Look, Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat. They'll be putting the tariff of 25% on Canada and separately 25% on Mexico. Adding, he may or may not target Canadian oil. Warning the levies set to be introduced on Saturday could spike. Those tariffs may or may not rise with time. Trump cited Canada's trade deficit with the US along with concerns over illegal migration and fentanyl even though the movement of those crossings at the northern border amount to a fraction compared to the southern border.

In the final push to prevent any tariffs, Public Safety Minister David McGinty is joining his cabinet colleagues in Washington DC, appealing to US lawmakers. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is saying if the US moves ahead with the tariffs, Canada will respond. And while it's not clear what that response will look like, Trudeau insists that more than one sector of the economy will be involved. Anything we do will be fair right across the country that all Canadians will share in the job of standing up for our interests and, quite frankly, standing up to defend the most

successful trading relationship in the world. Trudeau says Canada will respond immediately with, quote, every option on the table. Liberal leader, Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will eliminate the Trudeau government's carbon pricing policy if he becomes party leader. What we'll do is create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices. So it means that you'll no longer have to pay more to fuel your car or heat your home. But when you choose an energy efficient appliance or an electric car or home insulation, you will be rewarded and we will get the big polluters

to pay for it. Garnie says the government's carbon pricing initiative has become divisive and quote, isn't working. Another leadership contender, Christia Freeland, is also promising to eliminate consumer carbon pricing. And like Carmi, she is also saying she will keep it in place for large industry. The flight data recorders have now been recovered from the wreckage of the passenger plane that crashed Wednesday night into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It means the crash investigation is now fully underway,

with a preliminary report on the mid-air collision expected within a month. Humanitarian officials are cautiously monitoring the distribution of emergency aid shipments into Gaza. This as UNRWA, the UN's main relief agency in the territory, is now technically banned from operating. Sasha Petrusic has more now from Jerusalem. More than 400,000 Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza, hoping to find something.

Nothing left, says Bilal Naeem. All the water wells are destroyed and food is hard to find, he says. No hospitals either. Aid delivery into Gaza has increased by hundreds of trucks every day since the ceasefire began. But that's now threatened as the main UN agency coordinating aid, UNRWA, has been banned from Israel. UN spokesman Stefan Dujaric says it's not clear if Israel will now try to stop shipments. The humanitarian operations in Gaza continues including with UNRWA work there.

The UN is also calling for urgent medical evacuations for 2,500 children saying they are at risk of imminent death. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.