The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 15:00 EDT

You know what I'd like to hear people say more often? I'm not sure. Let me think about that. I'm Nala Ayed, host of Ideas, a podcast that brings you deep thought every day. We're a show for listeners who like to slow down, to check their assumptions, and maybe even change their minds. If that's you, find and follow ideas wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev tackled the issue of red tape today. He says there are almost 150,000 rules and

regulations on small businesses in Canada. I'm announcing that a conservative government will cut red tape by 25% over the next two years. We'll impose a two-for-one rule, which means every new regulation or rule will have to be matched with eliminating two existing ones. Poliev would also introduce a two-for-one rule on costs. For every dollar in administrative costs for business, $2 would have to be cut elsewhere, and he would order the Auditor General to do an annual audit of rules and regulations. Liberal leader Mark Carney says a key component to building a stronger, more self-reliant Canadian economy is having enough workers to build

it. Right now, we simply don't have enough workers. Almost 250,000 construction workers are expected to retire over the course of the next seven years, creating a shortfall on current plans before our ambitious plans, a shortfall of over 60,000 workers. The jobs will be there. The careers will be there. We need to make sure the skilled workers are there too. To that end, Carney says the Liberals will provide up to $8,000 in grants to registered

apprentices, $20 million for college training programs, and they'll increase the labour mobility tax deduction for workers willing to move to where the jobs are. The Conservatives have made similar pledges. The NDP leader made a big promise today. Jagmeet Singh said a new democratic government would ensure every Canadian has a family doctor, and he'd do it by the end of this decade. David Thurton has more. How we can get those physicians taking care of patients, how we can fix our health care,

in the face of all this uncertainty, we want to give people hope. Jagmeet Singh says a New Democrat government would commit to providing everyone a family doctor by 2030, not just access to a nurse practitioner or another form of primary care, but to a physician. It's a challenging goal at a time when millions of Canadians

don't have a GP and more are losing access. Singh says his government would eliminate the problem by the end of this decade. And so to achieve that, here's our plan. First of all, Singh promised to open up more residency positions for foreign-trained doctors so they can practice here, to train more local doctors from rural and underserved areas. And the NDP is offering a 1 percent top-up in the Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories that sign up. David Thurton, CBC News, St. John's.

Repairs to the power grid in Ontario are continuing this weekend. More than 120,000 customers are still in the dark after back-to-back freezing rainstorms earlier in the dark after back-to-back freezing rainstorms earlier in the week. 3,900 Ontario crews are being helped by crews from across Canada. Anti-Trump demonstrations have been organized in all 50 U.S. states today against what many Americans see as the threat posed by the U.S. President and Elon Musk. And it's a sentiment seen in protest around the world too. Mitch McCann has more from New York.

Elon Musk has got to go! Hey, hey! 1200 demonstrations are planned across the US, attracting Americans angry about the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the federal workforce and what they describe as attacks on immigrants. 83-year-old New Yorker Judy Hollander says she's unsure what the president is hoping to achieve. He looks like he wants to destroy the government. If he has some great plan, it is a secret to everybody but him. Meanwhile, the international community continues to react to Mr Trump's tariffs, with Chinese

officials reportedly describing them as a weapon to suppress its economy, and the British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover suspending shipments of vehicles to the US. In Florida, Trump posted a message online urging Americans to hang tough. Mitch McCann for CBC News, New York. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.