The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/03 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/03 at 14:00 EDT

Scott Payne spent nearly two decades working undercover as a biker, a neo-Nazi, a drug dealer, and a killer. But his last big mission at the FBI was the wildest of all. I have never had to burn baubles. I have never had to burn an American flag. And I damn sure was never with a group of people that stole a goat, sacrificed it in a pagan ritual, and drank its blood. And I did all that in about three days with these guys. Listen to Agent Palehorse, the second season of White Hot Hate, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the rules-based free trade economic system the Western world

has enjoyed for decades is over. This morning, he unveiled Canada's response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian vehicles and warned more is coming. Marina von Stackelberg reports. We must respond with both purpose and force. Prime Minister Mark Carney pausing his election campaign to announce how Canada will retaliate against the latest US tariffs. Ottawa will slap a 25% levy on all vehicles imported from the US that don't comply

with the current free trade agreement. Carney says billions of dollars raised from those countermeasures will go directly to the Canadian auto industry and their workers. We take these measures reluctantly and we take them in ways that's intended and will cause maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact here in Canada. Carney says Donald Trump's decision to levy tariffs on almost every country has fundamentally changed the world's financial system.

Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Ontario's premier says the province is already feeling the impact of Donald Trump's auto tariffs. Automaker Stellantis has announced it will temporarily pause production in Canada and Mexico. The Windsor assembly plant will be closed for two weeks. Stalantis will also temporarily lay off 900 workers at U.S. facilities reliant on Canadian parts. Doug Ford warns other U.S. sectors will feel the pain as well.

If they continue wanting to go after our lumber, that's just going to drive the cost up of housing. If they go after, continue to go after the auto sector, it's going to drive the cost up of autos for Americans. And if they go after our pharmaceuticals, that's going to drive the cost up. Ford hopes the shutdown will be short-lived. On the campaign trail, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev pledged to support workers affected by the Trump tariffs. But he also attacked the liberal leader.

Just last Friday, Mark Carney said he had a quote very productive, very constructive call with President Trump citing progress. Unfortunately, Canada has not been spared. There is no progress and there was nothing constructive or productive about Trump's tariff announcement. Poliev says if elected his government would remove the GST on Canadian-made vehicles. The NDP's latest campaign pitch is a throwback to the Second World War. Leader Jagmeet Singh is proposing the federal government start selling a new kind of victory bond to help Canada fight the trade war. Janice McGregor reports.

The threat of Donald Trump has made Canadians say, what can I do to stand up and defend my country? Standing in front of the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Jagmeet Singh said it's time for some patriotic investing. A victory bond would be a guaranteed investment where you would purchase a bond, a five-year or ten-year, and if you hold it to maturity you would get all the revenue tax-free. The NDP's plan would use the money that Canadians invest to fund infrastructure to make Canada more competitive. Instead of paying interest to banks, the proceeds from this debt would flow back to Canadians who step up. This is an opportunity for Canadians to invest in our country. The federal

government stopped issuing Canada savings bonds in 2017. They were expensive to administer and uptake fell over time. Singh says he gets that in a tough economy, not everyone has extra to invest right now. But for those who do, victory bonds could help Canada fight back. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. An Ottawa judge has found two central leaders of the truck convoy guilty of mischief. It's among the charges faced by Tamara Leach and Chris Barber for their involvement in the protests.

They saw parts of downtown Ottawa grind to a halt for weeks in the winter of 2022. Justice Heather Perkins-McVeigh says the protests brought the core of the city to a standstill and disrupted daily lives of residents. More decisions will be delivered later today. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Juliane Hazelwood.