The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 18:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Tom Harrington. We begin with breaking news from Washington. Donald Trump has signed a proclamation placing 25% U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The president told reporters in the Oval Office there are no exemptions or exceptions. His trade adviser Peter Navarro says the tariffs are about ensuring the U.S. never has to rely on foreign nations for critical industries. A senior government official has told CBC News Ottawa is waiting to see the order in writing before responding. The 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 Dagg reports. Speaking to a business crowd near Montreal, Quebec's economy minister Christine Fréchette says U.S. 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 shock waves through Quebec where 90% of Canada's aluminum is produced. Flavio Volpe with the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-US 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 neighbor. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto.

Steel producers in Hamilton, Ontario are bracing for the impact of the American move. The president and CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association says the tariffs will have a devastating impact. Catherine Cobden says they'll also affect Canada's ability to fight off unfair The Canadian Steel Producers Association says the tariffs will have a devastating impact. Catherine Cobden says they'll also affect Canada's ability to fight off unfair trade from other countries. As the U.S. 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 U.S. 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. In other news now, a Canadian who's been on death row in Montana for 42 years has been spared, at least for now. State legislators defeated an attempt to resume executions since a moratorium was passed in 2006. Ronald Smith is originally from Red New York, Alberta. In 1982, he and another man shot and killed two young indigenous men. Pierre Polyev 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, Poliev 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 Poliev 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. Akeroq says decisions about the North can't happen without significant input from northerners. Juanita Taylor, CBC News, Yellowknife. Many of the world's most polluted nations have missed a UN deadline to set new climate targets. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, they were supposed to provide a detailed plan every

five years for cutting heat-trapping emissions by 2035. Most countries, including Canada, missed the deadline. The UN says that's okay as long as they're working on them. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington.