The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 14:00 EST

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and start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Canadian business leaders came together today with political and labour leaders to hammer out how to face the looming threat of US tariffs. Easing inter-provincial trade barriers was a popular topic. But as Thomas Dagg tells us, the Prime Minister had a soaring message for those attending. It is time for us in Canada to be able to work east-west. Former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley acknowledges there's lots of red tape to cut through, but she says provinces need to be able to trade more freely with one another

to reduce Canada's dependence on commerce with the U.S. I don't think we're going to get rid of everything in 30 days. The next deadline imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump comes in early March. So business leaders meeting in Toronto acknowledge there's an urgent need for change. And Candice Lange, head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, says it's not just about immediate danger. This is so much more than just getting through a tariff threat. This is about positioning ourselves against a much broader agenda.

Behind closed doors, the Prime Minister told business leaders Trump's threat to annex Canada is, in Justin Trudeau's words, a real thing. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister is reiterating that there will be financial help for Canadians if and when Donald Trump acts on his threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S. The government will be there. We were ready. The employment minister was working on EI things.

But we're not in the pandemic. We have to be, you know, very strategic when it comes to spending. But right now, we need to make sure that we address the issue of uncertainty by standing up and being very strong together. Melanie Jolie also says local and provincial governments can help by choosing Canadian businesses for government contracts. Canada's unemployment rate ticked down last month, beating economists' expectations. Statistics Canada says the labour market added 76,000 jobs,

pushing the unemployment rate down by 0.1% to 6.6%. A Manitoba First Nation has almost no working fire hydrants because there's no running water in large swaths of the community. Residents of the Tascuaque Cree Nation north of Winnipeg have had to use buckets to fight fires. Cameron McIntosh has more details. The one fire truck in the community won't start. Even if it did, the fire hydrants don't work. They're at least 40 years old and some of them have been taken down.

Melvin Cook Jr. is the fire chief of the remote Tatasqueak Cree Nation, where the water system is broken. And Cook says little has changed since two fires they couldn't stop claimed one life and displaced about 50 others almost two years ago. We lost. We lost the fight. Chief Doreen Spence says the community is working with the federal government on plans for new water infrastructure. When I hear a fire, this is what we use.

In the meantime, volunteer firefighter Virginia Audie shows off a bucket, calling it the best tool she has for now. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. In the U.S., a union representing federal government employees is filing a lawsuit over funding cuts to USAID. The lawsuit claims the Trump 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 aid and medical

programs. The Trump White House is taking steps to dismantle it, an initiative led by Elon Musk. Samantha Power is a former US ambassador to the UN and the former head of USAID. 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 US 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. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.