The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 17:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Canada is bracing for an announcement from Donald Trump. The president is expected to announce details this hour on new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Julian Karagesian is a former special advisor in international trade at the Ministry of Finance. The operandi of President Trump is to create uncertainty.

And by creating uncertainty, you create anxiety in your adversaries or, this case in your apparent friends and neighbors. Analysts say tariffs on steel and aluminum would be devastating for many Canadian workers. Ron Wells is a union representative in Hamilton. We're hoping the federal government puts retaliatory tariffs on US products coming into Canada. So and hopefully the tariffs won't last long we'll get back to normal business. The aluminum industry in Quebec is wary as well. Premier Francois Legault says the North American free trade agreement should be renegotiated immediately. Pierre Pauliev says if his party forms the next government it will build a permanent military base in

Nunavut. The conservative leader is in Iqaluit to deliver his plans on strengthening Arctic security. As Juanita Taylor reports, Pauliev warns Canada's Arctic is under threat from Russia and China. Hostile powers want our resources, our shipping routes, and to be in striking distance of our continent. Pierre Pauliev stood outside at a podium this morning in Iqaluit to deliver a statement in what he is calling part of a Canada First plan to take back control of the Canadian Arctic. We will double the size of the first patrol group of the Canadian Rangers from 2,000 to 4,000 Rangers. Pauliev also plans to acquire two polar icebreakers and build Canada's first Arctic military

base. He says the military base will be built in Iqaluit, where there is already a functional airport and seaport. And that, Poliev says, would bring increased quality of life and economic development to Iqaluit. Meanwhile, Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeruq says decisions about the North can't happen without significant input from Northerners.

Juanita Taylor, CBC News, Yellowknife. The price of gold surged past $2,900 an ounce today for the first time. The record high comes amid fears of a global trade war caused by President Trump's tariffs. His plans are broadly viewed as inflationary and could create wider trade disputes. Today's price marks the seventh time this year gold has hit a record high. Investors see the precious metal as a reliable hedge against inflation. Nearly every country has missed today's UN deadline to set new, more ambitious climate targets.

As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations must submit new plans every five years, outlining how they hope to cut emissions by 2035. But as Inaiyat Singh reports, the deadline came and went with few revelations or much fanfare. Ten years on from Paris, we won't have delivered on all our commitments. Simon Steele, the UN's climate chief, says there's still room for improvement when it

comes to global climate action, despite the new US administration of Donald Trump exiting the Paris Agreement. But only 10 out of 195 countries have submitted new, more ambitious targets ahead of Monday's deadline. There is no penalty for submitting late targets. Canada says it will submit this week. Alex Rafalovic, an anti-fossil fuel campaigner, says the delay is disappointing but not surprising. These are complex and difficult proposals to bring together and countries take a

little bit longer than they anticipate to get them right. Countries need to submit by September so they could be properly assessed before the UN COP 30 climate change conference in November. Inayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto. 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.