The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 07:00 EDT

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We go first to a NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting underway in Brussels. And while the war in Ukraine is very much on the agenda, so too is the Trump administration's tariff campaign. Here's Canada's Foreign Minister, Melanie Chollet. The only people on Earth that will be able to really have President Trump change course are the Americans themselves. And the Americans now understand that tariffs are a tax on them. And we need to make sure, and Europeans need to make sure, that they take that message

to the American people in order to influence the U.S. administration. Jolie says the counter tariffs imposed yesterday by Prime Minister Mark Carney are a first step toward writing a new trade agreement with the U.S. and she's pointing out that a new agreement on security will be required as well. China has now formally responded to the tariffs imposed on its exports this week by the Trump White House. Beijing is putting a 34% levy on all U.S. products, effective April 10th. It's also issuing trade sanctions and export controls on 27 specific U.S. companies.

As well, China has filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization over the American tariff action. Back here in Canada, all the main party leaders are spending their day campaigning in Quebec. This after taking part in a French language interview special last night on Radio Canada that dealt almost exclusively with the Trump tariffs.

Kate McKenna has more. Liberal leader Mark Carney says he can't rule out the possibility of a recession, in part because of the effects Trump's tariffs will have on the U.S. economy. But he said he's already had some success with the president. After the two leaders spoke, Trump stopped making reference to Canada being the 51st state, and they agreed to negotiate a new economic and security relationship after the election. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev was asked why he hasn't spoken as much on Trump, saying he won't apologize for focusing on the cost of living and people who are having trouble making ends meet. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet said the liberal

and conservative parties do not have their bases in Quebec and he called for a Quebec representative to be included in the negotiating team with the United States. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said the focus must be on protecting Canadian workers who have lost their job or are at risk of losing their job. And Green Party co-leader Jean-Latine Pedneau pitched his idea of creating national stocks of Canadian resources like aluminum and steel that could be used to build prefabricated housing. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa.

Public health officials in Ontario are scrambling to contain a growing measles outbreak that's poised to break records. Jennifer Yoon has the latest. Chenoa Asquith never got her measles shot as a kid. But now, as a 23-year-old, she's facing her fears at a pop-up clinic in Caledonia, Ontario, getting the vaccine. I just don't want to end up with measles. It's either get the vaccine or end up really sick in the hospital with measles.

The region bordering Lake Erie is the epicenter of the measles outbreak in Canada now. The province is reporting almost 90 new cases in the past week. Dr. Ninh Tran is the medical officer at Southwestern Public Health. The most effective way to safely prevent measles is through vaccination. But convincing those who are hesitant is hard. An effort crucial to curb the spread as Canada looks poised to break a record. There are over 700 cases already this year, two dozen more, and it will be the biggest outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated back in 1998.

Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Caledonia, Ontario. Now to South Korea, where the country's constitutional Court has removed President Yoon Suk-yul from office. I declare a forced impeachment unanimously. The claimant, the President, Yoon Suk-yul, is officially impeached. 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. And that is A World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.