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

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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

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Despite Donald Trump's decision to pause tariffs on some Canadian and Mexican exports. On Thursday, Trump denounced his pause while promising at the same time, more tariffs are on the way. Tom Perry reports. We don't need trees from Canada. We don't need cars from Canada. The President of the United States venting yet again against his northern neighbor

as he signed another series of executive orders in the Oval Office. Despite the vitriol, Donald Trump says he's temporarily lifting tariffs on most goods from Canada and Mexico until next month. Finance Minister Dominique LeBlanc says, for now, Canada plans to keep in place its reciprocal tariffs on $30 billion worth of U.S. goods.

We want to get to a position that we were in two weeks ago where there are no tariffs applied to the trade between Canada and the United States. LeBlanc says Canada will postpone a planned second round of levies on $125 billion worth of U.S. products until April 2nd, with Trump promising more tariffs next week, though that could change. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The pause on tariffs is cold comfort to Canadian farmers.

They're trying to figure out what it will look like on April 2 when they're implemented. Qubita Oduro reports. At Rotoma Dairy Farm just outside Montreal, owner Marcus Schnegg says any tariffs will affect his business in many different ways, primarily in getting parts. He estimates the $40,000 a year he typically pays for maintenance could go up to $65,000. To produce the feed, we need fertilizer and seed. Most of the seeds produced in the United States. Agriculture Canada says the two countries have one of the largest agricultural trading relationships in the world.

In 2023, there was $73 billion worth of trade. Canadian farmers say maple syrup, pork production and vegetables will be the first to be affected by tariffs. Back at Rotoma Farms, Schnegg says when tariffs are implemented, he will be absorbing the cost so consumers and employees are less affected. We're going to postpone some investments as farmers because we're going to support the tariffs instead of investing in improving our businesses. The farmers who are thinking about absorbing the costs say

that's only a short-term solution. Kubin Oduro, CBC News, Saint-Blaise-sur-Réche-Lieu, Quebec. The Canadian Army is about to embark on a wholesale restructuring. The country's top soldier says he's assembled a team to examine the lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War and what the Army should look like in the future as it faces growing demands for troops and equipment both overseas and at home.

The CBC's Murray Brewster reports from Latvia. A troop of Canadian Leopard 2 main battle tanks churning up the mud at the Adagio training range in Latvia. Soldiers practicing to defend this Baltic nation, but also trying to learn the brutal lessons of the war in Ukraine, where cheap, tiny, explosive-laden drones are taking up multi-million dollar tanks. The army we have now is not the army that we need for the future. Lieutenant General Mike Wright is the commander of the Canadian Army, who has ordered a team

to begin looking at what the army needs to fight in the future and how it should be structured in an age where recruiting challenges have left the ranks depleted by as many as 5,000 troops. Wright says his biggest challenge is equipment and untangling the bureaucracy. For example, Leopard tanks on exercise here face a routine shortage of spare parts, components that are manufactured in Europe, but have to make their way to Canada before being shipped to the Army in Latvia. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Camp Adagio, Latvia. To Australia. [♪techno music playing in background, gunfire and explosions in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background, guns firing in background Winds leading the high waves on Australia's Gold Coast, a cyclone Alfred edges closer

to the country's eastern coast. Thousands of residents in Australia's east have been ordered to evacuate, with Alfred expected to make landfall as a Category 2 storm on Saturday north of Brisbane. Queensland's state capital was last hit by a cyclone over 50 years ago. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fade.