The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 11:00 EDT

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30-day trial and start listening today. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. On the campaign trail today, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Montreal, rolling out his party's plan for affordable housing. Our plan is let's build 100% affordable homes on federal land across this country. Everywhere there's federal land, we want to see homes being built that are affordable. We want to hire and train 100,000 workers to build these homes, and we want to unleash the funding, the financing to make this happen.

Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is in the GTA announcing his plan for a 15% income tax cut. For seniors who are drawing their pension or retirement income, they will pay on average 15% less. This is a tax cut for the workers behind me who will pay 15% less on their income tax. This is a tax cut for the waitress, for the welder, for the barber. That's Pauliev on a campaign stop today in the Greater Toronto area. The Liberals have announced an income tax cut as well, but theirs will be smaller, and it's aimed more at making up for the loss of the carbon rebate. As for Liberal leader Mark Carney, he's in Gander.

Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is launching his campaign in Quebec City, and the Green Party's co-leaders are splitting their day between Vancouver Island and Montreal. Meanwhile, amid the ongoing threats from the Trump White House, Canadian sovereignty is obviously expected to stay a key issue throughout the course of the campaign, and it has led to calls being made for all the political parties to table specific plans for strengthening the Canadian military. Murray Brewster has more.

Murray Brewster, on defense in the coming years. Canada is struggling to hit the current NATO benchmark of 2%. Heider says all parties should realize this election is different. Because what's at stake? Your very sovereignty is being challenged. Defense analyst Dave Perry says given the poor state of the military, each of the parties needs to resist the temptation to blame and shame and they need to come to the table with specific plans on how to solve the equipment crisis quickly. I am not sure that specific plans on how to solve the equipment crisis quickly. I am not sure that we can go back to trusting the United States the same way that we have or if we should we're going to need to figure out how much we can do ourselves.

One of the issues that will be hard to avoid politicizing, the liberal proposal to limit the number of U.S.-made F-35 fighters and possibly by the rest of the fleet from Europe. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. The day after holding talks with Ukraine, U.S. negotiators are speaking today in Saudi Arabia with Russia. A ceasefire agreement for the war in Ukraine is on the table, but exact terms and a timeline have yet to be agreed upon. Breyer Stewart has the latest. The negotiations come after a phone call last week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. I think you'll see a lot more progress get announced after Monday.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff insists the Russian leader is interested in peace despite the fact that Putin rejected a proposal for 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Our job is to narrow the issues, bring the parties together and stop the killing. We do not trust Putin, we do not trust Russia. Kira Rudik is a Ukrainian member of parliament and says despite the talks between Trump and Putin Russia continues to hit energy sites and civilian infrastructure. Even if Russia says they are ready to do the ceasefire, how would you enforce it? And what would happen if they break their part of the deal?

Last night, Ukraine said Russia launched nearly 100 drones at sites across the country. The Air Force said it shot down just over half of them. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. There's a dire warning today from the United Nations about the White House cuts to USAID. UN officials say it has the potential to lead to more than 2,000 new HIV infections per day. And they say without other countries filling the gap, the end result could lead to an additional 6 million AIDS-related deaths before the end of the decade.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.