The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 13:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. The Canada-US tariff tussle followed the Prime Minister to the NATO summit in Brussels. Justin Trudeau says Canada will respond with strength if Donald Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs. He points out when they were used during Trump's first term the US lost 75,000 jobs. Trudeau maintains Canada does not want a trade war. We think that the best thing for all of us in North America is to continue to work together to focus on some of the international trade

challenges whether it be non-market economies or rising authoritarian economies. This is our focus. If we have to put that on pause while we stand up for Canadian jobs, while we stand up unequivocally for Canadian sovereignty, we'll do that. Trudeau was asked whether he's changed his tone around Trump's 51st state comments. He initially called it a joke but told a business forum last week Trump is serious. Trudeau denies, flip-flopping. The 13 premiers are also trying to stop the tariffs. They're in Washington this week for a full-on push to convince Republican lawmakers a tariff war would

hurt their country and their voters. Ontario's Doug Ford is softening his hard line stance and sounding more diplomatic. Both sides have to take a diplomatic approach. They have to listen. The worst thing that could happen to American citizens and Canadian citizens, that it turns out to be a full out tariff war, it'd be terrible. Both sides would get hurt. People would be getting laid off. And we just want to make sure we inform the people of the U.S. how serious this really is.

Quebec's premier is calling for a new all-encompassing trade deal with the United States. Francois Lagos says nothing should be left off the negotiating table. The leaders of the United States and Russia spoke by phone today. On social media, Donald Trump says, among other things, he and Vladimir Putin agreed to start negotiations on ending the Ukraine war. But America's new defense secretary had a blunt message about what the U.S. sees for Ukraine's future. Crystal Gamatsing has more.

Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Peter Hegseth sat just two chairs away from his Ukrainian defense counterpart, but a chasm separated their visions for the future. The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. That's a big shift in position from what Joe Biden's defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, said in 2023 negotiated settlement. That's a big shift in position from what Joe Biden's Defense Secretary

Lloyd Austin said in 2023 when asked about Ukraine's NATO future. I have no doubt that that will happen. Ending the war is the goal of President Donald Trump according to Hegseth. We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. Hegseth said Trump will bring the two sides to the negotiating table, but any security guarantees would need to be backed up by Europeans, not American troops. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. For the first time in four years, auto theft is down in Canada. That's according to the insurance fraud prevention group Equité Association. Their report says there's been an 18% decline nationally between 2023 and 2024. Brian Gass is the vice president of its investigative services.

I mean, it really shows the collaboration and cooperation and the investment by law enforcement and government and CBSA and teams, our teams working with our partners across the country. I think we're seeing some positive signs. I don't want to have a false sense of security that the that the crisis is over because the numbers are still very high compared to over the last 10 years, but it is promising that we're starting to see a decline. More than 55,000 passenger vehicles were stolen in Canada in 2024. Most parts of Ontario are about to get hit with another snowy blast of winter. Environment Canada has issued winter storm warnings for much of the region.

That includes from the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa to as far north as Sudbury. They can expect 15 to 20 centimetres of snow, while as much as 30 to 40 centimet cm is expected overnight in southern Quebec. And that is your World That's Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening. © The CBC News, 2018 © The CBC News, 2018

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