The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 15:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world is our. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump's promised 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports are drawing sharp criticism from some business and political leaders. Quebec's aluminum industry will be hit especially hard. Aluminum is one of the province's biggest exports, generating some 30,000 jobs. Thomas Dagle reports. Speaking to a business crowd near Montreal, Quebec's economy minister Christine Fréchette

says US President Donald Trump is attacking the province's businesses and workers. Premier François Legault is calling on the North American Free Trade Agreement to be renegotiated immediately. All of it, as Trump's plan for renewed tariffs on US aluminum imports sends shockwaves through Quebec, where 90% of Canada's aluminum is produced. Flavio Volpe with the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-U.S. Relations is among officials heading to

Washington to highlight how tariffs will hurt Americans too. One of the biggest customers of that aluminum is US defense interests. Already Quebec's aluminum industry is considering ramping up exports to Europe rather than being so reliant on Canada's southern neighbour. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Steel producers in Hamilton, Ontario are bracing for the impact of those tariffs. The president and CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association says the tariffs would have a devastating impact. Catherine Cobden says they would also affect Canada's ability to fight off unfair trade from other countries. As the US shuts its borders to everyone, we're going to be highly exposed to more unfair

trade. So we're actually going to see a doubling down effect in our market. You know, we'll have lost the US access and we will have more unfairly traded imports flooding our market. Cobden believes Canada would need to respond strongly to American tariffs with retaliatory ones. Pierre Poliev says Canada will never join the United States. Let me be clear, Canada will never be the 51st state. We are a proud, sovereign and independent country.

We are a patriotic people and we will defend our future and our independence. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he'd like to see Canada become the 51st state. The conservative leader called for retaliatory tariffs on American aluminum and steel if Trump follows through on his promise. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh also wants the government to fight back. It's a 25% tariff on our steel and aluminum. We respond in kind. That is a type of fight that we have to bring to defend our country, to defend our workers. Singh wants federal support for affected workers. He met with auto workers in

Windsor, Ontario today. Canada's ambassador to France says the US is breaking international law by making threats against other countries. Stephane Dion says European allies are ready to work with Canada to avert a France says the US is breaking international law by making threats against other countries. Stephane Dion says European allies are ready to work with Canada to avert a trade war with the Americans. Olivia Stefanovich 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, Canada's ambassador to France and special envoy to Europe did. According international law, it's not only to invade the neighbour that is against international law in the charter

of the UN, it is to threaten. Stephane Dion 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. Olivia Estefanovic, CBC News, Paris. 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.