The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/03 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/03 at 16:00 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 Julie Anne 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.

He does not have a call scheduled with the U.S. president. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. On the campaign trail, the leaders of the opposition parties are also talking tariffs. They're pledging to support affected Canadian workers and offering their own take on what Ottawa should do. Alexander Silberman has more. Canada has not been spared. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev speaking at a Maple Leaf podium in Kingston, Ontario,

promising to back auto workers by dropping the GST on Canadian-made vehicles. Pauliev says the Prime Minister's call last week did not result in positive change. There is no progress and there was nothing constructive or productive about Trump's tariff announcement. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Ottawa today, pitching bonds as a way to keep Canadians employed during the trade war. This is a direct attack on these workers. Singh is also promising to expand employment insurance to cover more of workers' salaries. We need to protect these workers and make sure that they can actually

keep their homes, keep food on the table, and keep paying their bills. All parties focused on the economy in an election in the face of a trade war. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Ottawa. Ontario's Premier says the province is already feeling the impact of 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. Stellantis 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. 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. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked Hungary's President Viktor Orban during an official visit to the country. You stand with us at the UN and you've just taken a bold and principled position on the ICC and I thank you Victor.

That bold position is Orban's decision to withdraw Hungary from the International Criminal Court. It's issued an international arrest warrant against Netanyahu over his conduct in the Gaza war. But the Hungarian president has refused to enforce the warrant. Orban is a close ally of Netanyahu's. He calls the ICC's moves outrageously disrespectful and cynical. And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.