The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 21:00 EDT

At Desjardins, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice, and we can talk your ear off about transferring your business when the time comes. Because at Desjardins Business, we speak the same language you do, business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us, and contact Desjardins today. We'd love to talk business.

From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. We begin in Ottawa, where the federal Liberal Party has elected a new leader. 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 with 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, and to secure our borders. Carney also signaled that he'll continue with the Trudeau government's decision to fight against American tariffs. And tonight, Canada's opposition is reacting to Carney's win. On the platform, ex-conservative leader Pierre Polyev says, liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term

by replacing Trudeau with his economic adviser Mark Carney. It is the same liberal team that drove up taxes, housing costs and food prices, while Carney personally profited from moving billions of dollars and thousands of jobs out of Canada to the United States. He ends by saying we need a new conservative government that will put Canada first for a change. The outgoing Prime Minister also spoke at the Liberal Leadership Convention. Justin Trudeau gave a farewell speech. I have done my level best each and every single day to help build a country that stays worthy of all Canadians. I've done it for Xavier, for Ella Grace and Hadrian.

And I've done it for your kids too. I've done it with you. And although you'll always find me alongside you cheering along, their future and your future is now in your hands." Trudeau won three elections starting in 2015, but he only won minority governments in 2019 and 2021. Donald Trump's senior trade advisors appeared on American Sunday morning news programs. They say general tariffs will be imposed April 2nd. Kevin Hassett is director of the U.S. National Economic Council. He defended the president's plan.

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 on federal... So there is a trade war. So there is a trade war. 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. The death toll continues to rise in Syria. Forces aligned with the ousted president Bashar al-Assad battle the new regime. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 1,000 people in Syria have been killed since Thursday. Philip Lee Shanok reports. Protesters in the capital Damascus condemn violence started by attacks on the minority

Alawite sect in cities along Syria's Mediterranean coast. That is where remnants of former President Bashar al-Assad's forces are concentrated. This man says Syria must move beyond sectarian violence. We must build a free Syria, the new Syria, hand in hand, he says. The latest round of killing started when Alawite gunmen ambushed forces of the new Syrian government. Sajid Gohel is international security director at the Asia Pacific Foundation. And they have retaliated in the most aggressive way possible. He says the violence has now spread to revenge and bloodletting by other groups and threatens to spiral out of control.

The foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon met in Jordan Sunday to discuss a plan for stability in the region. Philip LeShannok, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.