The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 23:00 EDT

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30-day trial and start listening today. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neal Herland. Tonight a new era of Canadian politics begins. Mark Carney winning the Liberal leadership by a huge margin, setting the stage to become Canada's 24th Prime Minister. In his acceptance speech, he attacked US President Donald Trump, vowing to punch back against tariffs. The CBC's JP Tasker reports from Ottawa. The race to replace Justin Trudeau is now over.

The final result? Not even close. In first place, the next prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, with 131,674 votes. Mark Carney is poised to become Canada's next Prime Minister. I will work day and night with one purpose, which is to build a stronger Canada for everyone. The former Governor of the Bank of Canada crushed his competition, easily winning with a stunning 86 percent of the votes cast. My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.

Carney's first challenge staring down a new American adversary. And Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. So let's break down the numbers. More than 150,000 liberals voted for their new leader. Mark Carney won 85.9% of the vote. Former Deputy Prime Minister Chris Jafreeland came in a distant second place with 8% of the vote. Former government house leader Karina Gould got 3.2% despite a strong debate performance in English and French

that suggested she might do better in the leadership race. And finally, former Montreal MP Frank Baylis got 3 percent of the vote. 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 advisor Mark Carney. 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 and 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. The death toll continues to rise in Syria. Forces aligned with the ousted president Bashar al-Assad are fighting the new regime. A human rights group says more than 1,000 people in Syria have been killed since Thursday and about three-quarters of them were civilians.

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. Philipp Lee Shanok, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland. .