The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 22:00 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 Neal Herland. North American stock markets have finished in the red again on worries about tariff uncertainty, but the U.S. trade representative insists President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff plan is good for the U.S. economy.

Katie Nicholson has more from Washington. I'm kind of offended by your testimony that says we must accept self-inflicted economic pain. Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto pushing hard on U.S. trade representative Jameson Greer. Greer also had to answer tough questions from Republicans, like James Lankford, who pressed him on what American retailers who sell clothing made in Asian countries are expected to do. The president has been clear that he does not intend to have exclusions and exemptions.

While Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan asked Greer what it might take to call off the plan. Would the administration reverse course if the president's tariffs led to 10 percent inflation? Senator, the president is fixed on his purpose. This trade deficit and the offshore and loss of manufacturing jobs is something that's persisted for too long. Tomorrow Greer may face more of the same before the House's chief tax writing committee. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington.

Conservative leader Pierre Polyaev is promising to lower taxes for Canadians by cracking down on offshore tax havens. At a stop in Edmonton, he says he plans to rewrite tax rules and expose corporations that dodge their taxes. As Olivia Stefanovich 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 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 Poliev indirectly held investments in. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Edmonton. Liberal leader Mark Carney was in Delta, B.C. 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. And NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he's confident he'll win his own riding of Burnaby Central despite polls showing a likely victory for the liberal candidate. Rescuers in the Dominican Republic are racing against the clock searching for possible survivors after the roof of a well-known nightclub collapsed. Local authorities say more than 79 people are dead. Ali Shiasan reports. The jet set nightclub was packed for a popular merengue performer. That's Rubi Perez on stage at around 1245 in the morning.

But just moments later, tragedy. The roof of the nightclub suddenly collapsed and CBC News has confirmed with his manager that Perez is among dozens killed. On social media, Dominican police said their focus was on rescuing the survivors. Also among the dead, former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Octavio D'Otel and a provincial governor, Nelsie Cruz, sister of former Major League Baseball player Nelson Cruz. More than 150 clubgoers were taken to hospital. According to authorities, some people may have been spared, depending on how the debris fell around them.

The country's president describes the tragedy as immeasurable. Ali Shiasan, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurlant.