The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 17:00 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. If that's you, find and follow ideas wherever you get your podcasts. For 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, and Ottawa police are saying the East Block has now been evacuated. The Parliamentary Protective Service sent a notice

urging anyone inside the building to shelter in a room and lock the door. But it is not clear if there is a serious security threat. We will have more on this story as it becomes available. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is pledging to cut the red tape he blames on the Liberals and he made a promise in a writing that he's hoping to take from the new Democrats. Brady Strachan has more. Speaking in front of workers at a cement company warehouse in Asuyus, BC, Pierre Poliev attacked Liberal government bureaucracy that he says is holding Canada back. They have driven a half trillion dollars of investment out of our country,

killed key pipeline projects. Poliev says a Conservative government will reduce federal regulations by 25% over 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 also said he'd order the Auditor General to look at rules and regulations every year. This riding in BC's South Okanagan has long been held by the NDP, but with incumbent MP Richard Canning's not running this time, Poliev's stop here signals a push by his party to flip

it to the Conservatives. Brady Strachan, CBC News, Asuyus, British Columbia. 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. 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. It seems that Elon Musk is not on board with US President Trump's tariff policy. He appeared by video at a rally for the right-wing Italian party of Prime Minister Georgia Maloney.

I'm hopeful, for example, with the tariffs that at the end of the day, both Europe and the United States should move, ideally in my view, to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America. That has certainly been my advice to the president. Instead, President Trump imposed import tariffs on goods from a huge swath of countries, from China to the island nation of Madagascar off Africa. The tech billionaire has been spearheading the

Trump administration's efforts to slash the federal government. And that is The World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks for listening.