The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 16:00 EDT

How do you know when an idea is worth your time? I'm Nala Ayed, host of Ideas. Join me as we deep dive into the stories and ideas that shape us. No topic is off limits, from the allure of authoritarianism to what we can learn from the average cat. Find and follow Ideas wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. A lockdown has been ordered for the east block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

The Parliamentary Protective Service sent a notice urging anyone inside the building to shelter in a room and lock the door. And anyone not inside should leave the area. A number of police are also present. We will have more on this story as it becomes available. 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 labor mobility tax deduction for workers willing to move to where the jobs are. The Conservatives have made similar pledges. 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 businesses, two dollars would have to be cut elsewhere. And he would order the Auditor General to do an annual audit of rules and regulations. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says his party has a plan to ensure every single Canadian has a family doctor by 2030, and qualifying foreign-trained doctors is at the core of that plan. There's some estimates of 15,000 physicians that are in Canada that are trained, that have completed all the qualifications, but the only barrier they have is they can't get residency in Canada. So there are a massive number of folks that are already trained in our country that could

help us get a lot of the way there. We absolutely need to train more people in our own country as well. Specifically, Singh wants to ensure more people from rural and remote communities can go to medical school and he'll offer provinces which sign on a 1% top-up on their Canada health transfer payments. In major cities across Europe, the U.S., and right here in Canada, people are holding hands-off protests denouncing the policies of US President Donald Trump. In just months, he's made sweeping changes to US foreign and domestic policy and is dismantling

much of the federal government. Philip Lee Shanok has more. Julie Buchanan of Democrats Abroad Canada stands with supporters across from the US Consulate in Toronto. She's worried about her family back home. I don't want them to lose their rights. So despite the fact that I don't live there, it's always home and I'm going to do everything I can.

In London, England, crowds gather in Trafalgar Square with banners that read Dump Trump. Protester Robin Miranda says it's time to take a stand against the Trump agenda. Policies Trump is following are a threat to the world. It's not a question of location location it's a question of principle. Drew Fagan teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto. He says while it took a few months opposition to Trump is becoming more vocal.

I think there was a little bit of almost depression after the election. Since Trump returned to office on January 20th there has been a barrage of executive orders and Fagan expects protests to be more frequent and louder. Philipp Lee Shanok, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.