The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 06:00 EDT

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The Trump administration's latest round of trade tariffs went into effect as of midnight Eastern time. The rate varies country by country, with China being at the very top end. Their levy at this point is at more than 100 percent. Katie Simpson has more now from Washington. And I'm proud to be an American Donald Trump greeted with a standing ovation at a black tie gala dinner for Republicans. Cheered as he defended his tariff policy despite growing bipartisan blowbacks.

Over the course of his speech, the president bragged about forcing world leaders into trade negotiations they're giving us everything they don't want tariffs on themselves and it's very simple we're making deals and people are paying tariffs and then he suggested he might not actually be open to reaching agreements we don't necessarily want to make a deal with them. Goods from dozens of countries are now being taxed at a wide range of rates, including the 104 percent tariff now in place on China. The White House is not offering up any sort of timeline as to when they hope to start signing deals. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Canada isn't being directly hit with any new U.S. tariffs today, but Ottawa is bringing

in its own retaliatory measures. In response to the duty on the Canadian auto sector, Canada now imposing a 25 percent tariff on all U.S.-made vehicles that don't comply with the new NAFTA. Last year, vehicle imports from the United States were worth more than $35 billion. As expected, the Asian and European stock markets are all in the red this morning. Japan's Nikkei index closed down by more than 4%. It's more or less the same story across Europe with the London and German markets all sliding. Now to the federal election campaign and a claim from some Muslim and Arab Canadian voters

that the war between Israel and Hamas is purposely being avoided by the leaders out on the campaign trail. Nicole Williams says more. We've got, you know, a humanitarian crisis. There's many things on the mind of Aisha Shirazi this election. More than 100 Muslim and Arab organizations have signed a letter calling for a clear commitment from party leaders to support Palestinians in Gaza and stand against Islamophobia. But any mention of the issue of the conflict by party leaders on the campaign trail has been few and far between. Ruby Dacher is professor of international development at the University of Ottawa. She says that's because the war as a campaign issue is downright risky

because of how divided voters are on the conflict. What we can see is that the Arabs are, I wouldn't say spread equally among the parties, but I would say spread enough for there not to be a huge backlash. Even still, Shirazi says voters like her want to know where Canada's political leaders stand on the war in Gaza. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. As for today's campaign schedule, Liberal leader Mark Carney wraps up his stay in Calgary this morning before heading on to Saskatoon.

Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is starting his day in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Tonight, he's in Brampton. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Vancouver. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is starting his day in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Tonight he's in Brampton. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Vancouver. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet will be doing three separate media availabilities in Quebec. And the Green Party co-leaders are doing interviews in Ottawa. Police in southwestern Ontario have made arrests and have laid charges in a string of butter thefts. Investigators say over $8,000 worth of butter was stolen last year from grocery stores in

Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, Ontario. Five suspects have been charged in this investigation, but other jurisdictions in Ontario have also reported large-scale butter thefts. And that is the World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.