The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 17:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada and Mexico need to do more to avoid tariffs next month and he reiterated his plan to make Canada America's 51st state. Trump made the comments during a Fox News interview that aired during the network's Super Bowl pre-show. Nick Harper has more. Is that good enough? No, it's not good enough.

So more needed in 30 days. Something has to happen. It's not sustainable. Fox News interviewer Brett Baier asking President Donald Trump what Canada and Mexico need to achieve before the 30-day tariff deadline expires. But there were no specifics from the president. He just said he wants more than Canada's promised $1.3 billion border security boost. This weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also suggested Trump's promise to make Canada

America's 51st state should not be underestimated. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it is. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada and I'm not going to let that happen. Trump's doubling down, making it clear U.S.-Canada relations will likely remain badly strained for some time to come.

Nick Harper for CBC News, Washington. Since the interview on Fox News, Trump told reporters on Air Force One he will be announcing 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the U.S. on Monday. It's not clear if certain countries would be exempt. In Paris. We must build the infrastructure necessary at a speed that matches that of AI's development. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with European leaders at an AI conference. Trudeau is hoping to advance Canada's economic ties with the EU. Ruben Zaioti is a political science professor at Dalhousie University. He says it's key that Trudeau secure new markets overseas for Canadian goods and resources.

Both Canada and the EU are looking for trust partners. But certainly in Europe, it's not that keen in being open to the free market. Zaori says now is the time for Canada to advance its negotiations with countries like France and Belgium. The two have not signed on to CEDA, the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada. The U.S. delayed tariffs for Canada and Mexico, but that's not the case for China. The American tariffs went into effect last Monday, and today China retaliated by imposing new tariffs on some U.S. goods.

Linda Ward has the latest. China's retaliatory tariffs target specific US imports 15 percent on US coal and liquefied natural gas, 10 percent on crude oil, farm equipment and big-engine cars. China was not as successful as Canada and Mexico in persuading President Donald Trump to delay duties on Chinese imports earlier this week. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said they had no choice but to fight back. The United States has imposed a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods on the grounds of the fentanyl issue. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it. China has also filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization.

Economists estimate China's tariffs supply to about $20 billion of U.S. goods, while U.S. tariffs supply to $450 billion in imports from China. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto. BC says it's going to make it easier and faster to get permits for renewable energy projects. The province plans to introduce new legislation this spring that will put wind and solar projects under the BC Energy Regulatory's authority. The current process has customers dealing with multiple agencies and often leads to delays.

Evan Pivnik is with Clean Energy Canada. They have one point of contact now and that's the BC Energy Regulator that's actually going to help manage the timelines and all the different moving parts, whether that's addressing environmental assessment-related pieces or whether it's ensuring the permitting is happening. It opens up so many opportunities

that actually accelerate projects. The move comes as Premier David Eby pushes to speed up resource projects and reduce reliance on trade in the face of potential U.S. tariffs. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.