The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/06 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/06 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. For those on the front lines of the Canada-U.S. trade war, it is another day of confusion and uncertainty. The first major American concession from the White House came yesterday, with the auto sector being granted at least a one-month reprieve. And it's being suggested there could be more car votes to come. But then again, maybe not.

John Northcott reports. Increasingly, the challenge for U.S. allies and trading partners is not so much how to respond to the ever-changing tariff threats, but what is the specific threat on any particular day. ever-changing tariff threats, but what is the specific threat on any particular day? With the 30-day pause in tariffs on the auto sector, the industry still has many questions about what it all means. A phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau did little to settle the dispute, and while the initial rationale for the tariffs was to combat the influx of fentanyl

and migrants from Canada, that appears to be shifting. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. He told them that he they should get on it, start investing, start moving, shift production here to the United States of America where they will pay no tariff. That's the ultimate goal. All of this has left Canadian officials wondering what's coming next with Canada's foreign affairs minister Melanie Jolie saying they don't want to have to go through this quote psycho drama every 30 days. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers have started the process of eliminating certain barriers on inter-provincial trade and labour mobility. Among the issues being looked at are the credentials certified professionals need to work outside their home province. Provincial trade and labour ministers have been directed to come up with a national credential plan by June 1st. Quebec, however, saying it will need more time, saying its language laws will make it difficult to negotiate. Among the many thousands of individual sectors affected by the U.S. tariff action is health care. In a Newfoundland and Labrador, the government is directing its health authority to identify the origin of more than 400,000 medical items it purchases

each year. But Cabinet Minister Dr. John Hagge says it can be complicated. Dr. John Hagge, Cabinet Minister, Newfoundland and Labrador There is going to be a challenge though because there's a lot of fairly specialist stuff and I'm thinking from my background in surgery, particularly cardiac surgery, some of these prostheses are pretty well-souled source from the States. A lot of orthopedic prostheses come from companies like Stryker. You might have to look at AO, which is a Swiss company. So there's a lot of untangling going on. Aaron Ross Hege says he doesn't know at this point how

much medical material comes from the United States and how easy it will be to find alternatives. Defense Minister Bill Blair will make an announcement later today in a caluit about the Canadian Armed Forces presence across the Arctic. The announcement comes as Canada is at what officials call an inflection point in the region. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie said in last year's Foreign Policy Blueprint for the Arctic that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made Arctic cooperation with Moscow, quote, exceedingly difficult for the foreseeable future.

Global Affairs is looking to get a Canadian service serving a prison sentence in Poland transferred back home to Canada. The 18-year-old from Vancouver, who admits he agreed to work as a Russian spy, was found guilty of espionage back in December. Jonathan Gaithouse has a story. He needs to come home. Andaline Nelson's son, Lakin Pavan, had just left Vancouver for a backpacking trip to Europe when she received an earth-shattering call.

I was told that Lakin had been arrested and charged with espionage against the Polish government. Polish court documents show the Canadian Army reservist wanted to volunteer for an aid organization in occupied Ukraine. Instead, he was recruited there by Russian intelligence and sent to Warsaw to spy on the Polish military. His espionage career ended hours after he arrived, when he got drunk in a hotel bar and confessed to police. Now 18 years old, he was convicted this past December and is serving a 20-month sentence. The family says CISIS and the RCMP had Lakin on their radar before he left.

Neither agency would confirm or deny that. Global Affairs Canada is in talks with the Polish authorities and his family hopes Lakin will be home soon. Jonathan Gatehouse, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.