The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 23:00 EST

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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 US. 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. The federal government's already responding to President Donald Trump's tariff threats. A promise to take action on a legal fentanyl played a role in getting a month-long reprieve. Nisha Patel reports on Canada's challenges with money laundering. The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive.

Donald Trump says if Canada doesn't crack down on drugs at the border, he'll invoke tariffs on imports crippling the economy. So Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to act. We will and have committed to jointly tackling the scourge that is fentanyl. According to a Canadian police intelligence service, nearly 100 organized crime groups are producing fentanyl within the country. All these organizations generate huge amounts of money that ultimately need to be laundered. That could account for $113 billion in dirty money in Canada each year,

says Christian Loiprecht, a Queen's University professor who has written a book on financial crime. That legislation has simply not kept up. Loiprecht says criminals may be drawn to Canada where they can more easily hide their illicit cash because oversight here is more lax than the U.S. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. 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 2-3 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 concerns about St. Marie's claim to Indigenous ancestry. Only eight people have ever been expelled from the Order of Canada in its more than 50-year history. And that is all for your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.