The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 21:00 EST

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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 businesses and manufacturers, and remove barriers to inter-provincial trade.

Canada's mayors also have several trips to the U.S. 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. The Energy and Natural Resources Minister was in Washington today. Jonathan Wilkinson talked to U.S. officials about those tariff threats. He says Canada has the resources America needs. I just go back to things like Canada can do a lot on critical minerals to reduce the American dependence on China.

This is at a time where China is banning the export of a number of important critical minerals to the United States. And I think that's a much more productive conversation. And so I am certainly trying to ensure that we're offering an alternative that is a positive alternative to turn away from the discussion on tariffs. Meanwhile, Canadian politicians are doing a hard sell on Americans to convince them Donald Trump's proposed tariffs are a bad idea, but at the same time, some see domestic opportunity in the crisis. Carina Roman has more from Ottawa. We've shown that when our backs are up against the wall, we will all stand together.

A renewed sense of Canadian unity, a push to buy Canadian, the real possibility of eliminating decades-old interprovincial trade barriers, the reinvigorated search for export markets other than the U.S. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's reaction to the threat of tariffs is promising. We don't just want to get through this challenging moment. We want to emerge from it stronger than ever before. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says the buy Canadian push should apply to government purchasing too.

That it goes towards Canadian companies, Canadian contracts that hire Canadian workers. There's political opportunity as well, with politicians of all stripes positioning themselves as the right person to take on a Trump administration. With a growing belief that will be the ballot question in the next federal election. Karina Roman, CBC News, Ottawa. A federal judge in Boston has delayed a Trump administration plan to offer federal government employees a buyout. The offer came from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and the deadline

was midnight. But the judge ordered the deadline extended until a hearing next Monday on whether the scheme is legal. The White House says 40,000 workers have accepted the offer far short of Musk's goal of 200,000. An African-Canadian man is rejecting a legal settlement he helped obtain. Wallace Fowler played a key role in launching a class action lawsuit in Nova Scotia claiming racism in the military. The settlement calls for a maximum payout of $35,000 for each claimant, but Fowler says it's about accountability, not money.

And he says he endured slurs, jokes and mistreatment in the service and wants a public inquiry. Their way out is to always talk about the system. And I think having an inquiry would pull them people out of the system and it would highlight a whole bunch more. The settlement acknowledges the harm and indignities people suffered. The Department of National Defense says it's already working on a range of measures to deal with racism.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.