The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 08:00 EST

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and start listening today. From CBC News, it's the world This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Looking for ways to make Canada less dependent on the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Toronto today hosting a National Economic Summit. Joining the Prime Minister are business and labour leaders and politicians from all levels of government. Janice McGregor has more. Putting a couple hundred business, labor and political leaders in a room with policy experts today for four hours, of course, won't fix everything.

The government hopes, though, to be seen as facilitating some of the tough conversations that are required right now. Labor leader Lana Payne from Unifor is on the front lines of this, representing auto workers once again, fearful of their jobs heading south, realizing Unifor is on the front lines of this, representing auto workers once again fearful of their jobs heading south, realizing they can't count on the free market. You can't do that anymore. You have to absolutely put planning around what it is we do with our economy and how we can best build good, strong Canadian jobs. Donald Trump frames economic prosperity as a national security issue.

The upside of this is that it could focus Canadians to take a hard look at why they aren't more strategic about doing business with each other instead of relying so much on the Americans. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The federal liberal leadership candidates have another hurdle to cross today. It's a $125,000 payment to stay in the race. The candidates have already laid out $100,000 to get their campaign started, and after today's payment another $25,000 will be needed by February 17th.

At least one candidate, Karina Gould, is critical of the steep costs, saying it's unfairly narrowing the field. A new executive order signed by US President Donald Trump is calling for sanctions against staff members at the International Criminal Court. The order is accusing the ICC of targeting the United States and its ally, Israel. Sasha Petrosic reports. Trump really does seem to be pushing the United States and Israel closer and closer together. He is accusing the International Criminal Court of illegitimate and baseless actions targeting the U.S. and its close ally Israel, in his words.

All of this would place financial and visa restrictions on various people at the court. They have not been named. The court said this is unacceptable. Also says that it would continue providing hope and justice to millions of innocent victims of atrocities. Those are its words. And of course it comes on the heels of the US and Israel pulling out of a couple of other UN agencies. Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council

and before that UNRWA, the main agency that helps Palestinian refugees. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Still with the Trump administration, it's being sued by a government employees union over cuts to USAID. The lawsuit claims the administration's unilateral actions are unconstitutional and illegal and will create a global humanitarian crisis. Tens of millions of people around the world rely on the agency's development, aid and medical programs.

But led by Elon Musk, the Trump White House is taking steps to dismantle it. Samantha Power is a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and the former head of U.S. AID. This is devastating and it is seeding the field as well to the People's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the U.S. ground game in American foreign policy, the face of American values disappear like this. Under Trump's proposed cuts, the agency's staff will be cut from 10,000 employees down to 300. A security analyst is saying the G7 summit in June here in Canada will see significantly heightened levels of security.

Steven Scott was an RCMP tactical troop leader at the G8 summit 23 years ago, which was held in the same Ganonaskis region of Alberta. He says the Americans this time around will be demanding even more protection for US President Trump, what with Trump having survived a pair of assassination attempts during the last presidential election campaign. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.