The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 12:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. First to Ottawa where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if the Trump administration moves ahead with its tariff threat, Canada will be ready to respond. And while it's not clear yet what that response will look like, Trump is, and Trudeau is insisting it will involve more than just one sector of the economy. 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's comments come as it appears the Trump White House is preparing to go through with a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods effective tomorrow. And while three Trudeau cabinet ministers are in Washington today lobbying against tariff action, another approach is being used as well. Janice McGregor explains. Knowing that Trump's a TV guy, Canada's prepared action videos to show how it's beefing up the border. A Fox News reporter was live at the crossing in Coutts, Alberta yesterday, profiling

the fight to crack down on illegal crossings. But Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has also called on the federal government to appoint a border czar. That's the same title Americans use. It makes it seem like Canada's lacking doesn't have someone in charge. The Trudeau government says it does have a border czar. That's Public Safety Minister David McGinty, who will be meeting with his American counterpart, Tom Tom Homan today. On the Quebec stretch of the border, officials were out this week showing off the Black Hawk helicopter that they've now repurposed to police illegal activity from the skies. Minister McGinty also announced the launch of a new regulatory oversight process for the chemicals used to produce synthetic opioids like fentanyl. One

of the issues he's going to be discussing with Homan today, standing up a joint North American strike force that will target organized crime, including the cartels that traffic in fentanyl. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Aaron Ross Powell, Reporting, CBS News. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will eliminate the Trudeau government's carbon pricing policy if he becomes party leader. Mark Carney, Liberal Leader, CBC News, Ottawa.

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. Carney says the government's carbon pricing initiative has become divisive and quote, isn't working. Another leadership contender, Christia Freeland, is also promising to do away with the consumer carbon pricing. The Trudeau government is delaying its plan to hike the capital gains tax. It means the proposed increase won't go into effect until January of 2026. While the hike was proposed in the Liberals' last budget, it has yet to go

through Parliament, which is parogued until March 24th. Humanitarian officials are cautiously monitoring the distribution of emergency aid shipments into Gaza. This says UNRWA, the UN's main relief agency in the territory, is now technically banned. Sasha Petrusic has more 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.