The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 19:00 EST

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Christia Freeland's campaign for the Liberal leadership has been a target of malicious activity with alleged ties to the Chinese government. That's according to the Canadian task force that's mandated to monitor election interference. Karina Roman has more details from Ottawa. The task force says it's identified an information operation targeting Christia Freeland. The MP is one of five candidates running to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and Prime Minister. The task force detected what it calls coordinated and malicious activity aimed at Freeland. It traced the operation to the Chinese social media and messaging app WeChat. To WeChat's

most popular news account, an anonymous blog with alleged ties to the Chinese government. The WeChat news articles disparaged Freeland. It's estimated that two to three million WeChat users saw the campaign globally. In a statement, Freeland said she will not be intimidated. Making this kind of discovery public is a departure for the task force which faced criticism during the recent foreign interference public inquiry for not telling Canadians about online malicious campaigns against candidates. Carina Roman, CBC News, Ottawa.

Justin Trudeau says Donald Trump is not joking about annexing Canada. The Prime Minister made the comments behind closed doors at a gathering of business leaders, but his words were accidentally heard outside the room. David Thurton reports. There will be no messing with the 49th parallel period. Frank words from Transport Minister Anita Honnard following Justin Trudeau's own straight talk. The Prime Minister was at a Q&A behind closed doors, but journalists heard some of his answers outside the room, over loudspeakers. It's hard to hear, but Trudeau says Trump's goal is to absorb Canada.

That it's quote, a real thing. Afterwards, ministers like Stephen McKinnon did not downplay Trudeau's warning. Canada is free. Canada is sovereign. Canada will choose its own destiny. Thank you very much. Trudeau's comments underscore what Canada is facing with the new Trump administration, as the president repeatedly calls Canada the

51st state. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. In Nova Scotia, two of the four crew members pulled from the water after their boat capsized have died. Two others were treated and released from hospital. The 18-metre Fortune Pride capsized near Halifax last night, triggering a Coast Guard search. As Canada braces for stronger wildfires, the government is getting ready to adapt. The Canadian Space Agency has unveiled new details about a program to assist firefighters.

And as Matt Damour explains, part of the plan to fight forest fires is shaping up in the Earth's orbit. More efficient, less expensive, faster, more agile and better coverage. That's the vision of wildfire control presented by Canadian space agency president Lisa Campbell. The agency is developing a program to track and monitor wildfires from space, dubbed the wildfire sat mission. The company Spire Global Canada, based in Ontario, will come up with a design for seven small satellites which are planned to launch in time for the 2029 wildfire season. They'll use special infrared sensors to take thermal snapshots and give crews

better data to fight wildfires. Stephen Guilbeau is Canada's environment and climate change minister. Having a network of satellites which can tell us what is happening, where it's happening, how fast things are moving will help us to better prepare. The Canadian Space Agency says the orbit of these satellites will allow monitoring in the late afternoon, which is a peak burn period. Wildfire sat will also help predict the direction of smoke from wildfires. Matt Damour, CBC News, Langueuil. 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%. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.