The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/02 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/02 at 14:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We're learning more about which American goods Canada is targeting with retaliatory tariffs. Yesterday, U., US President Donald Trump signed an order slapping 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods. The only exception, a 10 percent tariff on oil and gas. The federal government says it's fighting back and it's released a list of products that will be targeted. Janice McGregor has the details. Well, there's some things on it that are exactly as advertised. Yes, the orange juice is there, the bourbon is there. in fact all the beer, wine and spirits

are there and this is really interesting to see because it's kind of like a both belt and suspenders approach. We have the provincial premiers for their part pulling stuff off of shelves at their provincial liquor authorities. Then even if stuff is coming in, it's going to be 25% more expensive. It has the things that sort of made headlines the last time we were going to war over steel tariffs. The Harley-Davidson's are here, the playing cards, the appliances, Vermont maple syrup,

that's gonna have a tariff. Grain crops, that is interesting for Canadian farmers in a world where otherwise it is a very free trade open market. What isn't on this first list are things like steel, aluminum, manufacturing components, anything to do with the automotive trades. You do not want to kneecap your manufacturers with what you are doing. We're hoping to get some more information about the choices they're making to effectively rescind concessions in that three-way trade agreement to put pressure on the Americans.

Janice McGregor reporting from Ottawa. U.S. President Donald Trump is defending his decision to hit his closest trading partner with tariffs. A move that's expected to hurt jobs, make life more expensive, and reshape the Canada-U.S. trading relationship. And as Katie Simpson reports, the president's allies are coming to his defense too. We are sick of being taken advantage of. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance argued that tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China are necessary to motivate all three countries to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

But he also admitted it's about so much more. We are committed to getting America back on a sustainable fiscal pathway. Part of that we really think the president believes is the tariff equation. Donald Trump wants tariffs collected from American companies to pay for his election campaign promises. Things like tax cuts. Trump admitting on social media, yes, there may be some pain with this, but he's standing by his decision, again, arguing Canada should

become the 51st state, claiming Canada ceases to exist as a viable country without the U.S., adding harsh but true. Incendiary language at an already low point in the Canada-U.S. relationship. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. The five candidates for Liberal Party leader issued a joint statement on the Trump tariffs. It calls on Canadians to stay unified and says that all five candidates vow to stand up against the tariffs to protect Canadian jobs and businesses and Canadian sovereignty. In the occupied West Bank, a series of simultaneous explosions in the Jenin refugee camp as it was hit by Israeli strikes.

The Palestinian state news agency says about 20 buildings were leveled. A spokesperson for the Israeli military says they were targeting buildings used as terrorist infrastructure. Israel shifted its focus to the occupied West Bank two days after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Palestinian officials say that since then, at least 25 Palestinians have been killed, and dozens of homes and roads have been destroyed. Canada's most famous groundhogs are split on when spring

will arrive this year. Ontario's Wyrton Willie did not see his shadow, a sign of an early spring, but Nova Scotia's Shubin Akadi Sam and Quebec's Fred La Marmotte both saw their shadows, which traditionally means a late spring. And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.