The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 14:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Angie Seff. The White House's top trade negotiator insists Donald Trump's economic strategy is working. Jameson Greer is defending the president's broad tariffs before Congress. He says dozens of countries

have come forward to negotiate. We've already had many countries explain that they are not going to retaliate against the United States and in fact Vietnam, for example, they've lowered their tariffs already on cherries. They've lowered them on almonds and apples, things I know are important to the Pacific Northwest and this is exactly the right direction that we want to go in. Today, major stock markets recovered some of the startling losses seen since Trump's announcement last week. The Democratic Senator Mark Warner says that doesn't change the state

of global uncertainty. And I will acknowledge that we got a little blipip today but I just talked to one of the senior folks in Wall Street and he described today's market as a good day in hospice. Trump's new tariffs on most of the world but not Canada take effect tomorrow. To the federal election campaign now, Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev is promising to lower taxes for Canadians by cracking down on offshore tax havens. On a stop in Edmonton, he says he plans to rewrite tax rules and expose corporations that dodge their taxes. But as Olivia Stavanovic reports, it's all part of a plan that takes aim at his main political rival. Mark Carney, like all liberals, is a high-tax hypocrite. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev accusing the

liberal leader of personally stashing his taxes abroad when in fact Mark Kearney co-chaired two investment funds for asset manager Brookfield worth a total of 25 billion dollars registered in Bermuda to give pensioners tax advantages. You can't avoid your taxes. Global elites should not be able to either. Tax havens are not illegal. Poliev is trying to undermine Kearney's credibility and appeal to working Canadians, promising to crack down on tax havens, rewrite tax rules and close offshore banking loopholes. Poliev also says he wants to name and shame wealthy corporations that dodge taxes like Brookfield, a company that Polyev indirectly held investments in. Olivia Stavanovic, CBC News, Edmonton.

Meanwhile, Liberal leader Mark Carney is in Delta, BC. He is promising to double the pace of home building in Canada. Build Canada Homes will provide billions of dollars in financing for affordable home builders and above all, Build Canada Homes will catalyze an entirely new housing industry with Canadian lumber at the centre of it. Carney says the plan will provide $25 billion in financing to scale up the industry and create new jobs for skilled workers by covering the cost of apprenticeships and doubling the support for

union trading. Carney also says the U.S. decision to impose higher tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber is unjustified, unwarranted and fundamentally misguided. He says Canadian softwood lumber is integral to building homes across the United States and the tariffs will only increase the cost of materials for American buyer builders. Jagmeet Singh, meantime, is vowing to permanently ban foreign buyers from the Canadian housing market.

We're not interested in billionaires making lots of money off of housing. We're not interested in investors and speculators driving up the cost of homes. We want to put a stop to that so that you and your family can actually afford a home. The federal NDP leader delivered that pledge in British Columbia where his party is slipping in the polls. The numbers suggest the NDP could be in danger of losing official party status which needs 12 seats. Today Singh says he's confident in Canadians continued support for New Democrats. Well Instagram users under 16 won't be able to live stream without parental consent, they will also need permission to unblur suspected nudity in direct messages.

This is part of the changes that will soon be rolled out to users in the United States, Canada, Britain, as well as Australia. Meta launched its Teen Account program for Instagram in September. It now says it will be extending the teen account safeguards to Facebook and Messenger. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Angie Seth.