The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/11 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/11 at 11:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is coordinating with world leaders as the White House prepares to issue tariffs on all steel and aluminum entering the United States. Trudeau is at a global AI summit in Paris, and he had an opportunity today to deliver a message directly to the Trump administration. Olivia Stamanovich reports. As usual, these summits are a great opportunity to speak with a range of leaders. Moments after the Prime Minister made those comments to reporters in Paris, a senior federal

government official says Justin Trudeau got in a word with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. We will stand up for Canadian workers. We will stand up for Canadian industries. The official says Trudeau mentioned the impact steel tariffs will have in Ohio, Vance's home state, among Canada's largest markets, and one of the states where US President Donald Trump wants to revive steelmaking. Trudeau did not announce retaliatory measures today, but he warned Trump's 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports will drive up costs for Americans. Trudeau says Canada will work with the Trump

administration over the coming weeks to highlight the consequences the tariffs could have on both sides of the border. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Paris. From B.C.'s David Eby in the West to Newfoundland and Labrador's Andrew Fury in the East, the Canadian premiers are all making their way to Washington this week. This joint provincial lobbying effort follows the federal government's campaign earlier this month that convinced the Trump White House to delay its initial round of tariff threats. Janice McGregor has more.

They too will be carrying the message that the White House here is inflicting self-harm. David Eby last night pointing out that the aluminum smelter in his province exports a unique commodity that Americans don't make themselves. They're going to have to buy it from us, or they'll have to buy it from someone else, and it will all be subject to the tariff. There are premiers who remain apprehensive about retaliation, knowing that any retaliatory tariffs would be a tax on Canadians, hoping that only a shorter list of targeted measures would make a strong enough political point with some of the people they're meeting with this week in D.C. We'll watch to see if any premiers double back to their threats from last week now,

pull U.S. boos off the shelves again, cancel contracts to pile on to the federal response. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, a study is showing that Calgary, St. John, New Brunswick and Windsor, Ontario are the Canadian cities that will be hardest hit by any U.S. trade action. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is using Statistics Canada data to compile its tariff exposure index. It looks at 41 Canadian municipalities and it determined that the cities that will be least affected include those on the coast, such as Victoria and Halifax. For the most part, a significant amount of their exports are directed toward either Asia

or Europe. Along with launching trade action yesterday, President Trump was also signing an executive order that takes aim at paper straws. — These things don't work. I've had them many times. And on occasion, they break, they explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes. And I don't think that plastic's going to affect a shark very much as they're eating, as they're munching their way through the ocean. — Trump is rolling back a Biden administration policy that called for federal purchases of

single use plastics to be phased out by 2035. The Biden initiative was launched to help step up global recycling efforts as it stands now less than 10% of all plastic waste is currently recycled. The rest takes hundreds of years to break down. Uber and Lyft are about to get some competition here in Canada. An Estonian company has launched a ride sharing service called Hop. It's now available in the Toronto area with plans to expand to other regions across the country in the coming months. Hop joins Uber, which arrived in Canada 13 years ago, and Lyft, which debuted in 2017.

And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.