The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 13:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world is our. I'm Karen Hauerloch. The White House is holding a briefing this hour and Canada is waiting to hear whether oil and gas exports will be exempt from the tariffs the Trump administration is threatening to impose possibly tomorrow. A threat Trump and his secretary of state are repeating. Richard Madden has more from Washington. Those tariffs may or may not rise with time.

US President Donald Trump vows to implement his punishing tariffs against Canada and Mexico unless his continental neighbors take more aggressive action to stop migration and illegal drug flow into the U.S. And now Trump's top diplomat is upping the pressure. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says it's in Canada's best interest to comply with Trump's demands. If I were them, I'd be concerned that with the crackdown on illegal immigration in the United States, people would flee north into into Canada so you would think we'd be able to work with them very cooperatively on border security. Ottawa

has since taken steps to strengthen border security and crackdown on Fentanyl. Those actions will be judged by the White House with officials confirming US tariffs are being used as leverage forcing America's neighbors to adjust to Trump's domestic agenda. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if the Trump administration moves ahead with its tariffs, Canada will respond. And while it's not clear what that response will look like, Trudeau says 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 says Ottawa doesn't want to impose retaliatory tariffs but it will do so if it has to. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says if he's elected to head the party he will scrap the government's consumer carbon price scheme, also known as the carbon tax. It has had some impact in terms of reducing our emissions, making things more efficient, but it has become very divisive. The perceptions of the negative impacts of the carbon tax on households without fully recognizing the positive impacts of the rebate. It's been fed by misinformation and lies quite frankly by the leader of the opposition but okay.

We are in this situation. Carney says he would continue carbon pricing for large companies and come up with financial incentives for individuals to go green. The Canadian economy shrank a bit last November according to the latest data from Statistics Canada, but there are predictions December's numbers could make up for it. And you said Ari has details. 0.2% smaller in November. That's how much the Canadian gross domestic product shrank in November of last year. The GDP is one of the main ways the economy's overall size is measured.

According to Statistics Canada, one of the biggest drops came from transportation and warehousing, pinning that in part on things like labour disruptions at Canada Post or at ports. Many economists had predicted the economy would not shrink this much in November. So while today's data is a little bit unexpected, there are predictions things will have bounced back in December, which is expected to show economic growth, and that overall GDP numbers for the last three months of 2024 and the entire year will show overall growth. And he's had our CBC News, Calgary. And grocery bills are about to go up as a yearly industry-wide price freeze comes to

an end. Most Canadian grocers maintain a blackout on price increase requests from many suppliers over the holiday period. A massive recovery effort resumed this morning on the Potomac River in Washington following that deadly midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter Wednesday night. There were no survivors. Officials say 40 bodies have been recovered so far, as well as the

cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders. Hamas has released the names of three Israeli male hostages scheduled to be set free tomorrow. 35-year-old Yarden Bebus, 54-year-old Ofer Kalduron and 65-year-old Keith Siegel, who has joint Israeli and American citizenship. The three will be swapped for Palestinian prisoners and detainees. And that is your World This Hour for CBC News. I'm Karen Howellock.