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

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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

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I'm Joe Cummings. In the midst of the Trump administration's on-again, off-again, tariff action, senior Canadian officials continue to speak out on the U.S. news networks. Here is Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc last night on CNN. I don't presume to imagine what the president or his administration have as their ultimate objectives. They made this decision, which we think is unfair and unwise.

Canada is never going to be the 51st state. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie was also on CNN, saying she believes the president's goal is to weaken Canada's economy, clearing the way for annexation. Jolie adds it's important that both Canadians and the world know exactly what Trump is doing. And then there's Canada's ambassador to the UN, Bob Ray. You know, you can't make an investment decision if you don't know what the tax regime is. You don't know what the tariff regime is. That's Ray appearing on CNBC.

As it stands this morning, Trump has paused some new tariffs on Canada and Mexico and has reduced potash levels to 10%. But still on the books are tariffs Trump plans to bring in to go into effect next week on Canadian steel and aluminum. All this, of course, has touched off a wave of anxiety right across Canada that has many Canadians increasingly concerned not just about their finances, but also their state of mind Campbell McDermott has more

Protesters outside the US Embassy in Ottawa expressing their fears and anxieties About Trump's threatened tariffs his withholding of support for Ukraine and the 51st state jibes Krista Bayless worries for her children Mostly anxiety for my kids future. For Louisa Fenner, it's finances. So I'm frightened about the economic impact. Steve Whitwell worries it could come to a war. Yeah, keeps me awake at night. They're not alone. Mental health professionals say Trump anxiety is surging across Canada. Heather Anderson is a psychologist in Ottawa. This is not the occasional person that is experiencing this. This is across the board. Psychologists say there is no single solution to Trump anxiety and offer a variety of advice, exercise, mindfulness, spending time with loved ones, pets, or in nature, and check

in with yourself before checking the news online. Campbell McDermott, CBC News, Ottawa. Canadian military is embarking on wholesale restructuring, driven in part by the lessons learned through the war on Ukraine. And the questions being asked, many of them, include, among others, what the Army should look like in the future as it faces growing demands for troops and equipment both overseas and here at home. Murray Brewster reports now from Latvia, where Canadian soldiers are deployed.

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. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Camp Adagio, Latvia. Elon Musk's aerospace company has suffered another setback. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Camp Adagio, Latvia. Elon Musk's aerospace company has suffered another setback. Getting video down from the ship, you can see we've lost several engines and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle. A SpaceX Starship rocket was launched in Texas but lost contact minutes into the flight as a spacecraft tumbled back down to Earth breaking apart. Some of the spacecraft's debris was scattered over parts of the Caribbean, forcing several flights to be diverted around the Turks and Caicos, and ground stops at four Florida airports.

This is the second time in less than two months that a SpaceX rocket has exploded. And that is the World This Hour.