The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 06:00 EDT

The world we live in isn't perfect. This is all wrong. I say put mental health first. But it doesn't get any better on its own. I stand before you as a concerned citizen. That's why we talk to activists about how they do what they do and what inspires them to keep going. Because we're all about change.

Listen to stories that give us all hope on all about change wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels where Canada's Melanie Jolie is telling her counterparts how the Trump administration's trade action has forever changed the relationship between the world's two closest allies. When you treat your client, your best client, the way we've been treated, well, of course, it means that you want fundamentally to change the way you're operating. What we've said is we take stock of what the US has done and at the same time we know that the

relationship will never be the same again. Julie says the counter tariffs imposed yesterday by Prime Minister Mark Carney are the first step toward writing a new trade agreement with the United States and she points out that a new agreement on security will be required as well. Back here in Canada all the main party leaders are campaigning today in Quebec, this after taking part in an interview special last night on Radio Canada. Rafi Boujikaneen has more. Liberal leader Mark Carney grading himself a six out of ten on a spoken French but asked what he thinks represents Quebecers, he's less specific. Supply management, he says, then adds, it's a nation, it's a distinct society.

His Bloc Québécois rival Yves-François Blanchet picks up on that. Y a plus personne. Nobody calls Quebec a distinct society anymore, he says, it is its own nation. Conservative leader Pierre Polievre may have provided Blanchet some ammunition. He's a member of the GRC. He has a turban. Saying an RCMP officer assigned to protecting his family wears a turban, and he's against the controversial Law 21 which bans public sector workers in positions of authority from

wearing religious symbols. The performances on Thursday evening by each leader, a preview of the campaign's French language debate in a little less than two weeks. Rafi Boudjoukani on CBC News, Montreal. A legal challenge has been mounted to a new American border rule that is forcing Canadians with plans to stay in the US

for a month or longer to formally register with the US government. Sophia Harris explains. We're like 60 to 80 years old. What are we going to do wrong in the United States? David Fine is perplexed by the Trump administration's upcoming registration requirement for travelers. It affects Canadian snowbirds like Fine, who's wintering in Texas. Starting April 11th, certain foreign nationals staying in the U.S. for 30 days or longer

will have to fill out a lengthy registration form online. Those who don't comply could be fined, even imprisoned. Several U.S. immigration advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration to try to quash the registration requirement. We feel strongly that this rule was issued in an improper and illegal way. Michelle LaPoint is legal director at the American Immigration Council. She says the administration failed to seek the required public input on a rule that will affect millions of people.

On Tuesday, the plaintiffs will ask the court to block the registration rule before its April 11th rollout. Sophia Harris, CBC News, Vancouver. Now to South Korea, where the country's constitutional court has removed President Yoon Seok-yul from office. I declare, post impeachment, unanimously, the claimee, the President, Yoon Seok-yul, is officially impeached. The South Korean parliament brought forward the impeachment charges following Yoon's attempt

last year to impose martial law. An election now has to be held within the next two months to determine Yoon's replacement. At Windsor Castle last night, King Charles played host to the London Vegetable Orchestra, and he joined in on the proceedings by playing the carrot. That is the King on the carrot with the orchestra's rendition of of course Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The concert was in recognition to those involved in community music across Britain. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.