The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/02 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/02 at 21:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Herland. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will speak with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the morning about the 25%

Tariffs that the u.s. Plans to impose Tuesday Trump spoke with reporters tonight on his way back to the White House And he lashed out at Canada Canada's been very abusive of the United States for many years They don't allow our banks. You know that Canada does not allow banks They don't allow our banks. You know that Canada does not allow banks to go in. If you think about it, that's pretty amazing. If we have a U.S. bank, they don't allow them to go in. Canada's been very tough on oil and energy.

They don't allow our farm products in, essentially. They don't allow a lot of things in, and we allow everything to come in. It's been a one-way street. But Trump says he doesn't expect anything dramatic to come from his conversation with Trudeau on Monday. Well from meat and eggs to baby clothes and washing machines, Canada has released a full list of American imports that tariffs will be applied to. As JP Tasker reports,

it's the first phase in Canadian countermeasures. We didn't ask for this, but we will not back down. Canada is hitting back at the U.S. with big tariffs to make President Trump pay for launching a trade war. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will slap tariffs on some $30 billion worth of American goods starting on Tuesday. That figure will jump to $155 billion later this month. We're certainly not looking to escalate, but we will stand up for Canada.

Some 1,300 U.S. products will cost more overnight. Everything from juice and liquor to makeup and motorcycles, fruits and vegetables, jewelry and washing machines all made the lengthy list. Canada's a very bad abuser also. It's retaliation against Trump for striking Canada first with a 25 percent tariff on virtually all our goods and a 10 percent tax on energy. There's still a chance Trump could call it all off. With so many American jobs dependent on trade with Canada, pressure at home could force his hand. But it's unlikely.

JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. A growing number of provinces say they're going to pull all-American liquor off the shelves of government-run stores. It's their contribution to Canadian efforts to push back on U.S. tariffs. Philip Lee Shanock reports. Leaving a downtown Toronto liquor store, Will Main has no problem buying Canadian. And I tried to do that today. I unfortunately failed accidentally, bought two white cloths, forgetting they were American, so I'll fess up to that. Starting Tuesday, that won't be an option.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario will remove all U.S. products from its shelves. Premier Doug Ford says that's nearly $1 billion worth of wine, beer, spirits and seltzers. Today, along with Quebec and Nova Scotia, Manitoba followed suit. Premier Bob Canou says it's about protecting jobs targeted by U.S. tariffs. The day that tariffs take effect, we are going to be pulling U.S. products off of liquor mart shelves. Local producers like Brock Kutz of Patent 5 Distillery says it's a great opportunity, but inter-provincial trade barriers are still a problem.

It's more difficult for us to sell into Ontario or Quebec than it would be into the U.S. Fulton Shenok, CBC News, Toronto. British Interior Minister Yvette Cooper says her government will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence to make child sexual abuse images. AI is now putting the online child abuse on steroids. It's escalating, industrializing the scale of some of this appalling abuse. That's why we need to strengthen the law. Possessing, taking, making, showing or distributing explicit images of children are already crimes in England, but the new

law will add the use of AI and there will be penalties for those who teach others how to use AI for abuse. These changes will make Britain the first country in the world to introduce new AI sexual abuse offenses. The Grammy Awards are underway in Los Angeles tonight to honor the best in music, and two Canadians have already won tonight. Toronto songwriter Scott Jung and Montreal conductor Yannick Nézi-Séguin emerged as early winners.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Harland.