The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/02 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/02 at 20:00 EST

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to discuss ways of supporting Ukraine that don't depend on contributions from an increasingly reluctant America. The consensus is NATO and Europe need to look after their own security. But as Tom Perry tells us, it's not clear what Canada will do. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brushing past reporters as he arrived at the London Summit where he was greeted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer called this meeting at what he sees

as a vital moment for Europe and especially Ukraine. We are at a crossroads in history today. Starmer says it's time for Europe to step up with a plan to end the fighting and guarantee Ukraine's security. Starmer has announced a sharp increase in UK defence spending and is calling for a coalition of the willing to join the UK, France and others in a plan to protect Ukraine. Whether that coalition will include Canada is so far unclear. We know that the Canadian military has ways that it can contribute.

But the Prime Minister says a decision on joining Starmor's coalition will be up to a future government. Tom Perry, CBC News, London. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariffs will be levied on Canadian and Mexican goods on Tuesday but it's not clear if President Donald Trump will make those tariffs 25%. They have done a lot so he's sort of thinking about right now how exactly he wants to play with Mexico and Canada and that is a fluid situation. There are going to be tariffs on Tuesday on Mexico and Canada exactly what they are.

We're going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate. Litnik also said the U.S. will levy an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods. Meanwhile, Trump has ordered another investigation into whether to slap tariffs on lumber imported into the U.S. The Commerce Department has 270 days, that's late November, to complete its investigation. The White House says any resulting tariffs would go on top of other tariffs threatened by the Trump administration. Nearly half of US lumber supplies come from Canada. If the

US does apply tariffs, Canada is ready. Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa's strategy will remain the same no matter what Washington decides to do. The only rational response from the Canadian government is the one that we are taking, which is we have put out our policy response and we will implement that policy response, meeting those tariffs dollar for dollar. Anand says Canada will respond to the U.S. with $155 billion in retaliatory tariffs on targeted American imports. And the United Nations is calling on Israel to immediately resume the flow of aid into Gaza and for Hamas to release all hostages.

This as negotiations on a second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement teeter on the brink. Philip Leishanek has the latest. We fulfilled all our commitments. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says the first stage of the temporary ceasefire is over so aid trucks can no longer enter or leave the Gaza Strip. He says with the 42-day first phase done, negotiations about what happens next are deadlocked. Saar says Israel agreed to a US proposal

to extend the first phase in return for more hostages. Unfortunately, it was rejected by Hamas. The next phase would have seen Israeli troops begin to leave Gaza. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem says by closing the border and denying aid to Gazans, Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement and accused the country of weaponizing hunger.

To move on to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, it hopes to have a proposal before an emergency Arab summit on March 4th. Philippa Shanoch, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Jasmine Siputis.