The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/08 at 01:00 EST

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start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Many think the U.S. President is joking when he talks about turning Canada into America's 51st state. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not one of them. He was overheard warning business leaders in Toronto that Donald Trump is serious. Tom Perry reports. This is Team Canada at its very best.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meeting with business leaders in Toronto, navigating relations with the United States under Donald Trump. We need to both start thinking tactically and strategically. When Trudeau wrapped up his remarks, reporters were ushered out, but the Prime Minister's words could still be heard. The sound is faint, but the message is clear. Trudeau tells his audience, when Trump talks about taking over Canada and making it the 51st state, it's the real thing. There will be no messing with the 49th parallel period. Cabinet members attending the meeting meeting like internal trade minister Anita

Anand were quick to declare Canada will never join the US. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The federal government is promising to take action on illegal fentanyl. This vow played a role in getting a month long reprieve from the tariffs. A complete clamp down on the drug would change how gangs move their money. And as Nisha Patel reports, these are 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 Loeuprecht, a Queen's University professor who has written a book on financial crime.

That legislation has simply not kept up. Loeuprecht 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 on the Government of Canada website says the Governor-General approved

the removal on January 3rd. No reason is given, but a CBC News investigation in 2023 raised questions about St. Marie's claim to Indigenous ancestry. Eight people have been expelled from the Order of Canada in its more than 50-year history. And that is your World This Hour. For news anytime, visit our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.