The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 08:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. The follow-up continues from the Trump administration's global tariff campaign. The Asian and European markets are in the middle of major losses today. This after the North American markets lost more than $2 trillion at the close of trading yesterday. Analysts say this drop-off is worse than what occurred over the very worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, or during the housing crisis of 2008. Meanwhile, China now has formally responded to the tariffs imposed on its exports this week by the Trump administration.

Beijing is putting a 34% levy on all U.S. products effective April 10th. It's also issuing trading sanctions and export controls on 27 individual U.S. companies. As well, China has filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization over the tariff action. In the middle of all this, the NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels, and Canada's Melanie Zhou Li is telling her counterparts how the Trump administration's tariff 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 U.S. 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 again. Jolie 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's pointing 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. That's after taking part in a French language interview special last night on Radio Canada.

Rafi Boujikanian has more. Liberal leader Mark Carney grading himself a 6 out of 10 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. There's no one left. Nobody calls Quebec a distinct society anymore, he says.

It is its own nation. Conservative leader Pierre Polievre may have provided Blanchet some ammunition. There's a member of the GRC, he has a turbine. Saying an RCMP officer assigned to protecting his family wears a turbine, and he's against the controversial Law Law 21 which bans public sector workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. The performance is on Thursday evening by each leader, a preview of the campaign's French-language

debate in a little less than two weeks. Rafi Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Montreal. Legal challenge has been mounted to a no American border rule that is forcing Canadians with plans to stay in the U.S. for a month or longer to formally register with the U.S. government. Sophia Harris has the details. 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. South Korea's Constitutional Court has removed President Yoon Suk-yul from office. 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.