The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 09:00 EDT

How are Canadians bracing for a full-on trade war? Without U.S. buy-in, can Canada really help Ukraine? And is Canadian patriotism messing with conservative strategy? We explore questions like these on Power and Politics, CBC's only political daily. I'm David Cochran. I speak to the key players in the political stories everyone is talking about. You'll hear from those who've got the power, those who want it, and those affected most by it. You can find Power in Politics wherever you get your podcasts,

including YouTube. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. The federal election campaign is about to enter its third week. Today, the leaders are spreading out across the country. Alexander Silberman reports. Party leaders are spreading out from one end of the country to the other on Saturday. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Newfoundland, hoping to win back the riding of St. John's

East. The seat has gone back and forth between the NDP and Liberals in recent years. Singh will be staying in Atlantic Canada for the rest of the weekend, heading to Halifax later to try and win back a seat held by former NDP leader Alexa McDonough. Liberal leader Mark Carney will be back in the vote-rich Greater Toronto area. The GTA is shaping up to be pivotal in this election, with the three main parties spending considerable time campaigning there. In the West, Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev is in British Columbia. He'll be campaigning

in Osoyous in the BC interior. While historically BC has seen a lot of competitive blue-orange races, the NDP is down in the polls. So those closer ridings are areas to keep an eye on. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Ottawa. Could the results of the next election damage Canadian unity? That is the thesis being advanced by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning. He's even argued Liberal leader Mark Carney could risk being the last Prime Minister of a united Canada. Host of the House, Catherine Cohen, has more. We need to stick together to be successful as Canadians.

BC Premier David Eby says this is not the time to be talking about Western secession. But former Reform Party leader Preston Manning says if the federal Liberals win this election, more people in the West will want out. Manning says he doesn't disagree with Eby and others calling for unity. But coming together ought to mean advancing and protecting the interests of each region, not just some. Manning cites a poll showing across western provinces the percentage of people who think they'd be better off apart from Canada ranges from the 30s in Alberta to the teens elsewhere in the prairies. He insists the number could grow with a liberal re-election.

But Liberal leader Mark Carney rejects that. Such dramatic comments are unhelpful at a time when Canadians are coming together. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev was also asked whether he agrees with Manning. No, we need to unite the country. Manning says he hopes voters in Central and Atlantic Canada will think about how their vote could impact national unity. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. U.S. tariffs on aluminum are hitting Canadian brewers hard. But as Malika Karim reports, two Alberta beer makers are using different strategies to ride the wave.

I am Canadian because I drink Canadian beer. Alberta's Big Rock Brewery addressing the cross-border tensions with humorous Instagram videos. But Brad Goddard says the beer maker had to shift to accommodate aluminum tariffs. We aspired to stockpile as many cans as we could and move them into Canada as fast as we could. Goddard says although the aluminum is locally sourced from Canada, it crosses the border to become the material used to manufacture the cans. Over at Toolshed, a smaller microbrewery in Calgary, Graham Sherman says its strategy also involves buying more cans at once, but not from the U.S.

I have to now buy a full container of cans from China. We're now landing massive deals from big organizations that are deciding now to stop serving American beers." Both brewers hope the current situation will inspire others to open refineries on this side of the 49 parallel to truly be self-sufficient. Malika Karim, CBC News, Calgary. To Washington. Here's a pass, Ovechkin. Scores! The grade eight stands side by side with the grade one. Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitol

scored his 894th career goal last night in a 5-3 caps win over Chicago, tying Wayne Gretzky for the league's all-time goal scoring record. Ovechkin will get a chance to break the record tomorrow against the Islanders in New York. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.