The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 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 Angie Seth. The money is pouring in at a level that we've never seen before. Donald Trump insists his plan to implement global tariffs are

good for American businesses. His announcement has sent North American stock markets into a tailspin, trading today once again sliding into the red. Trump defended the measures as being necessary for the US economy. Sometimes you have to mix it up a little bit but we've had great great consideration. We've had talks with many many many countries, over 70. They all want to come in. Our problem is, can't see that many that fast. But we don't have to because as you know, the tariffs are on. The updated policy, which enacts sweeping tariffs on all imports to the United States,

kicks in tomorrow. Quebec, meantime, is seeing a surge in asylum seekers following a change in US immigration policy. Hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants in the United States are facing deportation. And as Matt Demours reports, that's causing strain at the Canadian border. At the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing just north of New York State, there were 560 asylum seekers in January. That number jumped to more than 1,300 last month. François André, with the Action Committee for People Without Status, says he's overwhelmed with calls from people asking how to get into Canada. Most of them would be rejected.

They would be sent back to the States. More than half a million Haitian migrants in the U.S. have been told they'll have to leave because they'll lose their temporary legal status. The Trump administration revoked the status as part of its immigration crackdown. The first group has until the end of this month to leave, while the second has until August. Quebec's immigration minister Jean-Francois Roberge says the province doesn't have capacity to take in more people.

I think it's really important, of course, to keep our humanity, but we can't take more and more and more. With the number of asylum seekers rising at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolles, the Canada Border Services Agency says it's brought in more resources to manage the border. Matt Amour, CBC News, Montreal. Conservative leader Pierre Paulyev is promising to lower taxes for Canadians by cracking down on offshore tax havens. On a stop in Edmonton, Paulyev says he plans to rewrite tax rules and expose corporations that dodge their taxes.

But as Olivia Stefanovic 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 Poliev accusing the liberal leader of personally stashing his taxes abroad when, in fact, Mark Carney co-chaired two investment funds for asset manager Brookfield, worth a total of $25 billion, registered in Bermuda to give pensioners tax advantages. You can't avoid your taxes. Global elites should not be able to either. While tax havens are not illegal,

Poliev is trying to undermine Carney's tax havens are not illegal, Polyev is trying to undermine Carney's credibility and appeal to working Canadians, promising to crack down on tax havens, rewrite tax rules and close offshore banking loopholes. Polyev also says he wants to name and shame wealthy corporations that dodge taxes like Brookfield, a company that Poliev indirectly held investments in. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Edmonton. Meanwhile, Liberal leader Mark Carney was in Delta, British Columbia. He was selling his plan 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 center of it. Carney also promised support for British Columbia's lumber industry. The U.S. recently announced its plans to double the duty it collects from Canadian softwood lumber to 34.45 percent. At least 60 people are dead after the roof of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic that happened early today in the capital of Santo Domingo.

Officials say the Governor of Monte Christi, a province in the Northwest, is among the dead and more than 160 people were injured. It remains unclear what triggered the collapse. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Angie Seth.