The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 14:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. The scarcity of affordable rental accommodation was the topic of the day for NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. He says his party will fight to change the system in favor of tenants. Our plan is national rent control. We want to make sure that people actually have protections, that renters are protected. Our plan is to end fixed-term leases. We want to end rent evictions and demovictions. We want to strengthen tenant unions to be able to negotiate for their tenants with the landlords. We want to end the unions to be able to negotiate for their tenants with the landlords.

We want to end the collusion that's going on where large corporate landlords are colluding to jack up rent. The NDP says any province or municipality wanting federal funds for housing will need to adopt laws to protect renters. Meanwhile, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet will be attending events in a Montreal suburb. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev will make stops in Metro Vancouver. Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet will be attending events in a Montreal suburb. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev will make stops in Metro Vancouver. Liberal leader Mark Carney is traveling to Victoria for two reasons, to campaign and to meet with BC Premier David Eby to discuss US tariffs on lumber exports. As the federal party leaders head into the third week of the campaign, events outside are likely to cast

a shadow over their events, sorry, efforts to woo Canadian voters. Rosemary Barton has the preview. There are no tariff deadlines this week, but there are ongoing threats, in particular this news that the U.S. is set to more than double the duty it charges on softwood lumber imports from Canada. According to BC Premier David Eby, who called that an attack on forest workers and British Columbians. Eby says he will meet with Mark Carney in Victoria tomorrow to discuss supports and things that the government might do there. So another way that this trade war continues to ripple across the country continues to affect the election campaign. Piyar Paulyev also in British Columbia today, which is really a key battleground for the

Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP, though the NDP's struggle in the polls also being reflected out West, even though Jagmeet Singh's own riding is in that province. Rosemary Barton, CBC News, Ottawa. In Brussels. We know that the relationship will never be the same again. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie had a tough message for her European counterparts about the US tariffs. At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers she pointed out that Canada is America's single biggest customer and yet the Trump administration has violated the existing trade agreement. We're

putting maximum pressure on the Trump administration and at the same time we are finding off-ramps. And the only people on earth that will be able to really have President Trump change course are the Americans themselves. And the Americans now understand that tariffs are a tax on them. Earlier this week US President Donald Trump put 20% tariffs on goods and services from EU countries. The leader of France's far-right National Rally Party says she will fight a ban on her running for the presidency after she was convicted of embezzlement. Dominic Valladis has more. Thousands turned out in Paris to show their

support for Marine Le Pen. Last week she was banned from running in the 2027 presidential election after a Paris court found her and two dozen other national party members guilty of embezzling EU funds. Evoking the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr, the far-right leader told her supporters she would peacefully fight the ban. Martin Luther King Jr. the far-right leader told her supporters she would peacefully fight the ban. She's already filed an appeal of the court's verdict but not everyone's upset she's been barred from running for president. Left-wing political figures and groups held a counter-protest also in Paris to And we end with big news in the world of sports.

Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky's record for the most goals in NHL history by scoring the 895th goal of his career. And that's all for the World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.