The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 15:00 EDT

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in the race to become the next Liberal Leader and Canada's Prime Minister Designate and votes for the four contenders Mark Carney, Christia Freeland, Karina Gould and Frank Bayliss are being tallied. As JP Tasker tells us we should know the results in a few hours. The former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney

is the clear front runner in this race. He's pulled in $4.5 million in donations. He also has the overwhelming support of caucus, MPs and cabinet ministers. Dozens of them have lined up behind his candidacy, leaving all the other candidates in the dust frankly when it comes to endorsements. Now it is a ranked ballot so there could be some upsets tonight. It's certainly possible with a ranked ballot.

So Kristi Afrielin, Frank Baylis, Karina Gould, the other candidates in this race are hoping to see an upset despite Mark Carney having overwhelming support among caucus and a huge haul in donations. J.P. Tasker reporting from the Liberal Convention in Ottawa. CBC Radio will have special coverage of the liberal leadership results starting just before 5 p.m. eastern hosted by Susan Bonner and Catherine Cullen. Whoever wins the liberal leadership, a federal election is likely to come soon and the polls

are suggesting the standings have shifted in the last few months. For almost two years, theatives had a dominant lead, but then came Donald Trump and his threats to Canada's economy and its sovereignty. Eric Grenier, a poll analyst and founder of the writ.ca, tells us what the polls look like now. Right now, based on the numbers that we've seen over the last few weeks, the Conservatives would probably still win the most seats if an election were held today. The polls that we've seen do still give them an advantage. Now again, these are polls that would be asking about Justin Trudeau or just talking about

the generic Liberal Party, so not testing Mark Kearney. With Mark Kearney, we have seen that you would more or less have a neck and neck race between the Conservatives and the Liberals. And in terms of the seat counts, it would depend on how that broke down regionally. But right now, just based on where the generic ballot numbers are, you would have the Conservatives and the Liberals, and in terms of the seat counts, it would depend on how that broke down regionally. But right now, just based on where the generic ballot numbers are, you would have the Conservatives somewhere short of a majority government, really just on the cusp of winning one, and the Liberals would be north of 100, 120 seats, which is a remarkable change from where they were just a few weeks ago when they were on track to maybe finish third behind the Bloc Québécois in terms of the seat count. So there's been a radical change. The race is far more competitive than I think

anybody was expecting it would be at the beginning of the year. But the conservatives still go into the campaign, I would say, as favorites. Poll analyst Eric Grenier. Donald Trump's senior trade advisors appeared on U.S. news programs this morning saying general tariffs will be imposed on April 2nd. Kevin Haskett, director of the US National Economic Council, defended the president's plan. The president is putting things on the table that are basically fairness issues. Let's just be fair. Whatever you do to us, we'll do to you. That's what he's asking for in April and it's not a radical idea at all. We're going to have reciprocal

tariffs in April. We're trying to make progress. So there is a trade war. In April there's going to be a reciprocal tariff and then if they lower their tariffs we'll lower ours. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says tariffs on steel and aluminum will go into effect on Wednesday. Families of Israeli hostages have set up a tent camp outside the gates of Tel Aviv's military headquarters, calling for an end to the war and the secure return of all hostages still held by Hamas. Zahiro Zahar Moore's uncle was killed in Hamas captivity. We are here to send a clear message to the Israeli government.

Stop stalling. Give the negotiating team full mandate to end the war and get all the hostages back. Yesterday Israel and Hamas signaled they were preparing for the next phase of ceasefire negotiations. The latest round of talks will resume in Qatar on Monday. Love it or hate it, daylight saving time is here. In most of Canada clocks have been moved forward an hour. Quebec has been holding public consultations on scrapping the time change. The province found that 91% of 214,000 Quebecers

who responded want it gone. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.