The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 21:00 EST

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start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. An economic summit in Toronto today brought together business leaders from across the country. The goal, increase investment and get rid of trade barriers within Canada. Thomas Daigle has that story. This is Team Canada at its very best. The Prime Minister laid out his hope that Canada can readjust its trading relationships,

refocus on other countries, and rethink commerce with the U.S. But what drew the loudest applause? It's about time we had genuine free trade within Canada. For business people across the country, it's a long-held gripe. When selling goods or doing work across provincial and territorial borders, the red tape can really add up. And Internal Trade Minister Anita Onand points to a looming deadline for cutting through all of it.

For us to eliminate barriers to trade and for us to build a domestic economy without going through Donald Trump. The U.S. president has given Canada until early March before crushing tariffs could come into effect. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister is reiterating that there will be financial help for Canadians if and when the U.S. president acts on his tariff threat. Donald Trump says he will impose a 25 percent levy 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. Krista 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 is 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. Folk singer Buffy St. Marie has been stripped of her Order of Canada. A two-line statement was published tonight on the Government of Canada website, saying the Governor-General approved the removal on January 3rd.

No reason was given, but a CBC News investigation in 2023 raised questions about St. Marie's claim to indigenous ancestry. A new report by the Canadian Climate Institute shows building new homes in areas at a high risk of wildfires or floods could be costly, forcing governments, insurers and homeowners to spend up to $3 billion more in annual disaster relief and rebuilding costs. Sarah Miller is the author of the report. Sarah Miller, Director, The Flood Risk Project in Alberta is pretty dramatic. New homes could drive up losses by $220 million per year. In Alberta, we're looking at wildfire damages potentially increasing at about $31 million annually.

And that's just Alberta. Miller says provinces should come up with stronger rules when building in high-risk areas. And that is Your World This Hour. Thanks so much for listening. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.