The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 20:00 EDT

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But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliane Hazelwood. We begin in Ottawa with the results of the Liberal leadership race.

In first place, the next Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. A political novice and former governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney won a landslide victory, taking 85.9% of the votes. And he wasted little time in attacking both Donald Trump and his opponent in the coming federal election. Donald Trump thinks, thinks, he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poiliev's plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. My government will put into action our plan to build a stronger economy,

to create new trading relationships with reliable trading partners. To secure our borders. Carney also signaled that he'll continue with the Trudeau government's decision to fight tariff for tariff. Former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland came in second with 8% of the vote and quickly threw her support behind the new liberal leader. Mark has a very clear mandate, very clear support. Our party now is in an excellent position to fight and win in the next general election.

We must and we will beat Pierre Poliev. Former government house leader Karina Gould was third with 3.2% of the vote. I'm super happy with the campaign that I ran. I'm very proud of the team that we built and the momentum that we built across the country. We chose our next leader tonight and we are united liberals and that's something that is really important and now it's our job to stick together

and to take this fight to Pierpaulio. Former MP Frank Baylis came in fourth with 3% in the Liberal leadership race. The trade war with the U.S. will no doubt be a central priority for Carney. Trump administration officials were on network news shows today defending the president's tariff plan and the reason he says he's taking action. Steve Federman has more. On the Sunday talk shows, one of the major subjects was tariffs.

And Donald Trump's top economic aid, Kevin Hassett, claimed the initial tariffs have had nothing to do with trade. We launched a drug war, not a trade war, and it was part of a negotiation to get Canada and Mexico to stop shipping fentanyl across our borders. Even though Trump has repeatedly talked about what he calls unfair trade practices, his Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick also insisted the tariffs are about fentanyl. If fentanyl ends, I think these will come off.

But if fentanyl does not end, they will stay. Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, chose her words carefully, expressing hope that Justin Trudeau's successor will start with a clean slate. I think our new Prime Minister, when that person comes in, will prioritize trying to have a good and healthy and productive relationship with the president. But so far, Trump's tariff policy has felt like a roller coaster ride. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Washington. Israel is cutting off the flow of electricity to Gaza in a bid to pressure Hamas to release

all remaining hostages. Gaza depends on electricity from Israel to run its desalination plants for making drinking water. The move comes one week after Israel imposed a blockade on all goods entering Gaza. Meanwhile, talks of the second phase of the ceasefire are ongoing. Israel is sending a delegation to Qatar on Monday to meet with mediators. A Vancouver-based non-profit is calling on Canadian universities to help more than 240 female Afghan students who are now facing deportation from the U.S. back to Afghanistan. This after U.S. President Donald Trump froze the funding for USAID, abruptly terminating their scholarships. Fribeh Rezaie is the executive director of Women Leaders of Tomorrow.

It's a devastating situation because they cannot return to Afghanistan. And even if they did, the Taliban are going to retaliate against them because they are bright women. They wanted to have education and they are strong women leaders. Taliban don't like that. So the Taliban will take any measures to punish them for going to school. The Taliban has banned education for women over third grade. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.