The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 20:00 EDT

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. The federal election campaign reaches the two-week mark, and party leaders are busy making promises.

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. 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. Speaking of which, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is tackling the issue of red tape. 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. Pauliev 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. Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is focusing on health care. He says 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 their 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% top-up in the Canada health transfer to provinces and territories that sign up. David Thurton, CBC News, St. John's. In Lisbon... I will not be silenced, I will not be silenced... St. John's. In Lisbon, demonstrators gather, chant and sing their opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump. Protesters hold up signs that read, hands off our bodies and defend democracy,

among other things. This is part of the hands off rallies happening around the globe. Freedom is at stake in the United States and for the whole world with what Donald Trump is doing. And we need to stand up. We need to raise our voices. We need to be heard. We need to make sure that everybody knows that we will not accept this type of injustice. There were 1,200 planned rallies in America today spanning every state. Other countries that joined included Canada, UK, Portugal, Germany and India. Across the country border communities are seeing signs that Canadians are staying home. Even communities like Windsor and Detroit has seen a drop

where many Canadians live in Windsor and work in Detroit. Tal Chudner is chief executive officer at the Windsor Detroit Tunnel. We're a bit of an anomaly in that we have so many daily commuters that live in Canada and work in the United States. Our traffic is only down around four or five percent. Now what we're seeing is that discretionary traveller who heads over on the weekends, our weekend traffic is down a lot more, down 10, 12, 14 percent. The numbers are more striking on a national level this February,

with half a million fewer travelers cross the land border into the U.S. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.