The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 16:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this Hour, I'm Tom Herrington. Canada's big city mayors are uniting against threatened U.S. tariffs on goods made locally. They're arguing municipalities will lose the most in a potential trade war, but they want any federal countermeasures done only with their blessing. Nicole Williams reports. U.S. tariffs directly threaten the prosperity and economic health of our communities. Rebecca Bly is president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. She says tariffs put local businesses and supply chains at risk,

and it's cities, towns, and villages that are the driver of Canada's economy. So any conversation about what to do about tariffs should include them. Josh Morgan is mayor of London, Ontario. You know, a high-level trade dispute only damages businesses and citizens across North America. The Federation suggests upper levels of government invest more in local businesses and manufacturers and remove barriers to inter-provincial trade. Canada's mayors also have several trips to the US planned over the next few weeks to take part in discussions on minimizing potential tariff damage on both sides of the border.

Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. Public safety minister David McGuinty says we'll hear more tomorrow about the responsibilities of Canada's proposed Fentanyl Tsar. He says that role will be filled by March 4th. That's the end of the current pause on Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on Canadian goods. McGinty says the Czar faces a complex task. Fentanyl is a foreign affairs issue. It's a law enforcement issue. It's an intelligence issue. It's a public health issue. So this is a complicated issue and we're also, to be clear,

not going to shy away from raising with our American counterparts as we have, that there are also drug challenges coming northward. McGinty cited the seizure of more than 300 kilograms of cocaine announced by Toronto police earlier this week. Five people were arrested, one of them a Mexican national facing deportation. As Donald Trump talks about tariffs and turning Canada into the 51st state, Canadians are listening. But they're doing their talking with travel agents and are rethinking their plans to visit the U.S. Amara Durakovich speaks for the travel company Flight Center.

Since the weekend, we're definitely seeing a lot of Canadians are cancelling their vacations to the U.S. They're opting to go anywhere but the U.S. right now. DeRoccovitch says in some cases, people are cancelling 10 or $20,000 trips even if they lose their deposits. The U.S. Justice Department is suing the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago. The suit claims they're interfering with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Chicago is one of a number of so-called sanctuary cities in the United States. It means the municipal government limits cooperation when it comes to a range of

immigration issues. Another strain of bird flu has been found in dairy cattle in the United States. It's the type that caused one death in the U.S. and made a Canadian teen seriously ill. That's sparking concerns here. It could show up more frequently. Sarah Levitt has more. At least four cattle herds in Nevada have tested positive for a strain of H5N1 or bird flu, a strain that's never before been detected in cows. The United States Department of Agriculture says it confirmed the presence of the D1.1 strain and has been found in birds and so far two people have contracted it. A man in Louisiana died from it last year and a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia got seriously ill but has since recovered.

The concern is that this mutation could make its way into dairy herds in Canada. Robert Chapman Wood is a professor of strategic management at San Jose State University. So far the number of cows infected has not had the same kind of impact as the number of birds infected, but that could happen. Previously, researchers had believed spread from poultry to cattle was a rare one-off event. D1.1 has proved otherwise. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal.

And that is Your World This Hour for CBC News. I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.