The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 13:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world is ours. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump says he'll be imposing 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The countries the president is expected to target include Canada. JP Tasker reports. It's terrible news for Canada's steel and aluminum sectors. Canada is the largest supplier of steel to the United States. If these tariffs go into place, you'll likely see a dip in how much of this product we sell to the US.

Canadian companies may have a hard time competing on price now that US importers will have to pay a 25% tax to bring in those goods. Here's Catherine Cobden, she's the president and CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association. We are very highly integrated, very dependent on each other economically, and tariffs will have devastating effects on both sides of the board. Canada has been down this road before. Trump imposed similar tariffs in 2018. They were in place for a year and the data was bleak. Aluminum exports dropped by 50 percent, steel 30 percent, according to statscans. So this could be a blow to industries that employ more than 35000 people.

JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for tariffs against Elon Musk's car company. We want to put a 100% tariff on Tesla cars. You pick a fight with Canada, we're going to fight back. We want to make sure Donald Trump and Elon Musk feel it. So that's our vision. We want to be able to support Canadians, to buy Canadian, and we're going to fight back at those that are taking shots at our country. Singh made the statement in Windsor, Ontario after meeting with auto workers to discuss

the tariff threat. The leader of the official opposition is also speaking out. Pierre Poliev is in Nunavut, promising a conservative government would build a permanent military base in the territory. Hostile powers want our resources, our shipping routes, and to be in striking distance of our continent. Let me be clear, the Canadian Arctic belongs to Canadians and Canadians will take back control of their Arctic waters,

Arctic skies and Arctic land. Poliev says his government would also purchase four polar icebreakers, two each for the Coast Guard and the Navy. Canada's ambassador to France says the U.S. is breaking international law by making threats against other countries. Zéphane Dion says European allies are ready to work with Canada to avert a trade war with the Americans. The Prime Minister is also in Paris meeting world leaders at an artificial intelligence summit. Olivier Stefanovic has the story.

We, leaders in this room and around the world have a choice to make. As US President Donald Trump targets Canada, the Prime Minister is in Paris urging his global counterparts to eliminate another threat. We must put AI to the service of everyone in both high and low income countries and not just for an increasingly small group of ultra-rich oligarchs. Trudeau did not mention Trump at the Artificial Intelligence Summit, but earlier in the day, Canada's ambassador to France and special envoy to Europe did. According to international law, it's not only to invade a neighbour that is against international law

in the charter of the UN, it is to threaten. Stefan Dias suggested the US might be breaking international law by threatening to take over Greenland as Trump continues to make the case for Canada to become the 51st state. Olivier Stavanovic, CBC News, Paris. Hamas says it will stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice. The Palestinian militant group is accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire. It claims Palestinians in Gaza were targeted with airstrikes and humanitarian aid was prevented from entering the area. Israel says the announcement to a postponed hostage release is a violation of the agreement.

The defense minister ordered the country's military to be at the highest level of readiness in Gaza. The ceasefire has largely held over the past three weeks. At least 51 people are dead after a bus veered off a highway bridge in Guatemala City. It plunged about 20 meters into a sewage-polluted stream. The president deployed the country's army and disaster agency to help with rescue and recovery. He declared a national day of mourning. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.