The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 02:00 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 is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. The federal election campaign has reached 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. 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 Poliev 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. For every dollar in administrative costs for businesses, $2 would have to be cut elsewhere. Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is focused on health care.

He says a new democratic government would ensure every Canadian has a family doctor and he would 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 NEP 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. Ottawa police say a lockdown on Parliament Hill has ended after a man barricaded himself inside the East Block on Saturday. In a social media post, officers say a criminal investigation is ongoing and an update will be provided on Sunday morning. One man is now in custody. In Lisbon, demonstrators gathered to voice their opposition to US President Donald Trump.

Protesters hold up signs that read, hands off our bodies and defend democracy. This is part of the hands off rallies happening around the world. 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 1200 planned rallies in the US on Saturday across every state. Other countries that joined include Canada, Portugal, Germany, India and the UK. An overnight air strike has been launched on Kiev by Russian forces. According to the military administration and the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, the city's air defence forces are trying to repel the attack. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko says air defences are working and he's advising people to stay in shelters. And that is your World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week, or get all the news you need anytime

anywhere. Download the free CBC News app today. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.