The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 21:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague.

Canada is gearing up for an economic broadside set for tomorrow. US President Donald Trump says 25% tariffs are coming on almost all Canadian goods, likely less on oil and gas. And as Katie Simpson tells us, it's not clear anything can be done to stop them. There is nothing, nothing Canada, Mexico or China can do. Tariffs are happening no matter what. When the president first made this threat, he said that if Canada and Mexico had made border security improvements to stop illegal drugs and migrants from entering the US, that tariffs would not happen. But today, Donald Trump changed his tune, which is not something that's uncommon for Donald Trump. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, he was asked if there is

anything these countries can do to avoid tariffs, and he rejected the idea. It's a pure economic. We have big deficits with, as you know, with all three of them. And we'll just see what happens. He's thinking about a 10% tariff on Canadian oil, but everything else could be hit with 25% tariffs. Details are supposed to be made public tomorrow until we get those specifics on paper. It is uncertain exactly what's going to happen other than he says tariffs are coming.

The CBC's Katie Simpson reporting from Washington. President Trump did not release the precise details of the tariffs, making broad threats, but as Anissa Hadari explains, the tariffs will affect people on both sides of the border. Tariffs don't cause inflation, they cause success. U.S. President Donald Trump insistent today that he'll be imposing tariffs on Canadian goods. Those taxes would have to be paid by Americans on theoretically anything they import from

Canada. There could be some temporary short-term disruption. People will understand. But nothing is on paper yet, at least not on paperwork made public. Trump's still claiming 25% tariffs will start Saturday. It's provocative chaos meant to put us on our heels. Flavio Volpe heads up the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association in Canada.

Tariffs would make his industry's products way more expensive for American car makers. He doesn't think they'll be happy. Car companies make a thousand cars a day. If you're going to lose $4,000 a car, which means you're going to lose $4 million a day, you've got a fiduciary obligation to say there's an end date to that. There's one possible exception. According to Trump, oil and gas tariffs might be delayed and only 10%. Anis Hadari, CBC News, Calgary. Canada is working on its response to the Trump tariffs.

Several cabinet ministers have also been meeting with American officials in Washington. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says that work will continue. And I think that the reaction towards our border plan or the reaction regarding just the fact that there is a trade surplus when it comes to goods between Canada and the U.S. if you don't take into account the question of energy. And when we present these arguments, people are reacting extremely positively. Jolie says the government has not yet seen any specifics on what tariffs will be imposed.

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will eliminate the Trudeau government's consumer carbon tax if he becomes the party's next 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 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 carbon pricing initiative had merit but has become too divisive. Liberal

leadership contender Christopher Freeland is also promising to do away with the consumer carbon tax. Officials in DC confirm they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the helicopter involved in a mid-air collision with a jet on Wednesday. An American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter collided, killing 67 people. Crews have so far pulled more than 40 bodies out of the Potomac River. 28 of them have been identified. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.