The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/23 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/23 at 21:00 EDT

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

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 Neil Herland. Canada's federal election is officially underway with a shifting political landscape. Just a few months ago, polls put the Conservatives way out ahead.

But as JP Tasker reports, the election of a new Liberal leader and the return of a U.S. president have changed everything. There is so much more to do to secure Canada. The trade war election is officially underway. And new Liberal leader Mark Carney says he needs a mandate from the people as Canada stares down President Donald Trump, his tariffs and the 50 for state taunts. He wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen.

So when I say they should be a state, I mean that. While he's been endorsed by Trump ally and friend Elon Musk, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev says he won't bend to the U.S. administration, pointing out even Trump himself says he prefers to deal with the liberal. Our nation is more divided than ever before because the liberal post-national borderless and globalist ideology has weakened our nation. According to the CBC poll tracker, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh starts his election in a distant third place.

Some progressives have parked their vote with the Liberals instead. Election day itself is on April 28th. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. And Conservative leader Pierre Polyav has just wrapped up his first major campaign rally tonight in Toronto. Who's ready to act some taxes? Who's ready to act some taxes? Who's ready to build some homes? Who's ready to bring home the Canadian promise?

Liberal leader Mark Carney made his first campaign stop in St. John's tonight where he was met by more than 50 fish harvesters protesting against major cuts to the snow crab harvest. Carney mentioned them during his speech. I want to acknowledge the harvesters here tonight outside came to make make their voices and I want to underscore like minister, I'm here to listen. Some of the protesters tried to block the lobby at the St. John's Convention Center. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Montreal tonight, but earlier he launched his campaign in Ottawa

and he reminded his supporters what the NDP accomplished during a supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government. Even before Donald Trump started his greedy trade war, times were tough. And we fought to make things better for you and your family. Paid sick days and laws to protect you at work, that was us. Dental care. Dental care so you don't have to choose between living in pain and buying groceries. That was us.

Green Party co-leader Elizabeth May called for national unity in the face of tariff threats from the United States. Despite the fact that we're in an election, we have to remain Team Canada. We have to be strong together because there is a threat. Voter turnout in this country has been declining. This time it's your patriotic duty to vote. Every single Canadian 18 years and older get out and vote. Vote like your country depends on it. May launched her campaign with Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneau in Montreal. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet says Quebecers need to be able to speak for themselves to the rest of Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

And he urged Quebec voters to pick his party amid the tariff war. I believe that in any instance, under any circumstance, one should never vote because of fear. And we will try to force logic in that campaign in order for democracy to work its way out. Blanchet also says no oil or gas pipelines will be built across Quebec without the approval of Quebecers. He adds it would be financially beneficial to Westerners, but he says Quebecers would be left to pay for the potential damage to the environment. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.