The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/14 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/14 at 15:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. Canada has a new Prime Minister. Mark Carney and his somewhat smaller cabinet have been sworn in at Rideau Hall. And as David Thurton reports, Carney is promising action from day one. We have new ministers with new ideas, ready to respond to new threats and to seize new opportunities. Just days after becoming Liberal leader, Mark Carney isn't wasting time. The new Prime Minister filling his cabinet with new and familiar faces. prime minister filling his cabinet with new and familiar faces. Francois Philippe Champagne is finance minister.

Other key ministers in the tariff war, Melanie Jolie, Jonathan Wilkinson and David McGinty, keep their old jobs. While Dominic LeBlanc now focuses on the relationship with the U.S. and provincial premiers. To execute the powers and trusts as minister of international trade and intergovernmental affairs. 24 ministers instead of 35 plus. Among them some rookies. Ontario MP Ariel Cayabaga as house leader and Nova Scotian MP Cody Blois in agriculture. The team, Carney says, that will grow the economy and defend Canada in the trade war.

David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Conservative leader Pierre Paliève was quick to respond. He says the new Carney cabinet is the same as the old Trudeau cabinet. Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them for a fourth term, with a cabinet that is 87 percent the same as Trudeau's cabinet. These same liberal MPs voted to hike the carbon tax, double the debt, and double housing costs. New Democrat leader Jack Mead Singh says Carney is shifting the party to the right away from Justin Trudeau's progressive agenda.

What Mark Carney has shown is that he has not made a priority a lot of the people in our country. Women, there's no minister related to issues impacting women, youth, people living with disabilities. He does not have a minister for labor. Even Stephen Harper had a minister for labor. Singh also points out that Karina Gould, the most progressive candidate from the liberal leadership, is not in the new cabinet.

Canada's sovereignty wasn't on the official agenda at the meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Quebec, but as Kate McKenna reports, it was still a topic of discussion. The president has made his argument as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining the United States for economic purposes. During his visit to Canada, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio downplayed Donald Trump's annexation threat as a disagreement between governments. There's a disagreement between the president's position and the position of the Canadian government. Prime Minister Mark Carney said that's underselling Canada's stance.

It's crazy. His point is crazy. That's it. A meeting of G7 foreign ministers has wrapped in Charlevoix, Quebec. Though Canadian sovereignty wasn't on the agenda, other ministers, including Germany's Annalena Baerbach, offered solidarity. Canada's unity inspires us. Despite Rubio's comments, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says it was a good meeting, with ministers unanimously agreeing to support the US brokered ceasefire proposal in Ukraine.

Kate McKenna, CBC News, L'Amelbe, Quebec. The B.C. coroner's service says 152 people died of illicit toxic drugs in the province in January. And that marks the fourth month in a row when the death toll was under 160. The service says while overall numbers are trending down, some areas saw an increase in deaths. It also says half of all drug deaths involve people between the ages of 40 and 59. New documents show the Hudson's Bay Company is about a billion dollars in debt.

The iconic Canadian retailer applied for creditor protection a week ago. The documents show HBC Company only has about $3 million in cash. It owes more than $400 million to the Bank of America and U.S. hedge funds. They will be paid out before unsecured creditors, including 9,000 workers across Canada. The Bay will reveal its restructuring plans on Monday.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.