The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 22:00 EDT

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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. Income taxes and Donald Trump were the dominant topics on the federal election campaign trail.

The conservative leader is promising a middle-class tax cut. Pierre Paliév made the promise in Brampton, Ontario. He also weighed in on why the president said he was more keen to work with his opponent. There's a reason why Donald Trump wants the weak, out-of-touch liberals in power. They've handed him control of our economy. Trudeau and Carney raised taxes. They have buried us in bureaucracy. And Donald Trump knows that a weak, out of touch, liberal government,

given a fourth mandate, will only make Canada a bigger target for him. Poliev says he will cut income taxes by 15 percent and get rid of the sales tax on new homes. The liberal leader says he is prepared to talk to U.S. President Donald Trump about his tariffs and threats to Canada, but Mark Carney says Trump may be waiting to see who wins the election. As Tom Parry reports, Carney made the remark on a campaign stop in Newfoundland. I would like to thank everyone for welcoming me to Gander. Liberal leader Mark Carney touched down in a community famous for welcoming travelers

from the U.S. and other countries on 9-11 when America came under attack and American airspace shut down. You showed friendship to people who were fearful. And in crisis, you showed character. Today, nearly a quarter century later, Carney says Donald Trump has put those bonds at risk, with his tariffs on Canadian goods and threats to Canada's sovereignty. Unfortunately, President Trump's actions have put that kinship under greater strain today than at any time in our storied history.

Carney has not spoken to Trump since being sworn in as prime minister. The liberal leader says he interprets that as Trump waiting to see who wins the federal election adding he's ready to talk on Canada's terms as a sovereign nation and not America's 51st state. Tom Perry, CBC News, Gander. The New Democrats are promising they will build affordable housing only on federal land. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh made the announcement in Montreal. David Thurton has more.

I think in this election the question is who's going to build homes you can actually afford. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says this party will do just that. A New Democrat government, he says, will only build affordable homes on vacant federal land. And he set a target, 100,000 new rent control homes by 2035, all constructed on federal land as long as it's suitable. Singh also committed to fast track approvals of those projects and train more trades workers. The difference is, here's the plans of the other guys. Pierre-Paul Yev wants to sell off federal land to rich developers and rich builders.

He wants to sell it off to companies like Mark Carney's former company so that they can make lots of profits and they're not in it for you. Carney used to be chair of Brookfield, a multinational corporation with vast real estate holdings. He resigned in January. David Thurton, CBC News, Montreal.

The main federal party leaders will face off on two debates, the French one on Wednesday, April 16th, the English one the next day. The White House now confirms that top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a group chat message to a journalist. The Atlantic first reported the story Monday, saying that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was invited to a chat group on the

Signal messaging app, where he read about the impending attack. Earlier Monday, Hegseth tried to discredit Goldberg. You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax or suckers and losers hoax. So this is the guy that peddles in garbage." Hegseth is a former Fox News host.

And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neal Herland.