The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 20:00 EST

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But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump put pedal to the metal tonight in Washington. The President announcing 25% tariffs

on all steel and aluminum imports to the United States. Richard Madden has details. This is the beginning of making America rich again. President Donald Trump says his sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports will boost domestic production and protect jobs in America's Rust Belt. These new levies come one week after Trump paused separate 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico over concerns of border security and fentanyl until March the 4th. And these new tariffs take effect the same day.

Canada supplies nearly 40 percent of America's steel imports. We don't need it to be made in Canada. We'll have the jobs. That's why Canada should be our 51st state. We'll bring back industries and we'll bring back our jobs and we'll make America industry great again. Trump slapped tariffs against Canadian steel and aluminum back in 2018, justifying them as a national security issue. It took nearly a year for those tariffs to be lifted and Canadian officials are hoping for a similar outcome. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington.

In a statement tonight on Ex, Trade Minister François-Charlie Champagne called the tariffs unjustified. He says Ottawa will consult with other affected countries before announcing a formal response from the government. 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 Dagler reports. Speaking to a business crowd near Montreal, Quebec's economy minister Christine Frechette says US President Donald Trump is attacking the province's businesses and workers.

Premier Francois 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 U.S. aluminum imports sends shockwaves through Quebec, where 90 per cent 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 U.S. 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. 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 Deer, Alberta.

In 1982, he and another man shot and killed two young indigenous men. All executions in the state have been stayed since 2015 because Montana requires the use of an ultra-fast-acting drug. It is no longer available. Pierre Poliev 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, Polyev warns Canada's Arctic is under threat from Russia and China.

Postile powers want our resources, our shipping routes, and to be in striking distance of our continent. Pierre Polyev 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, Polyev 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. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.