The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 11:00 EDT

When they predict we'll fall, we rise to the challenge. When they say we're not a country, we stand on guard. This land taught us to be brave and caring, to protect our values, to leave no one behind. Canada is on the line, and it's time to vote as though our country depends on it, because like never before, it does. I'm Jonathan Pedneau, co-leader of the Green Party of Canada.

This election, each vote makes a difference. Authorized by the Registeredleader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote, makes a difference. Authorized by the registered agent of the Green Party of Canada. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The Trump administration's global tariff campaign is now officially in effect. As of today, more than 180 countries and territories are facing a range of trade levies. And as we hear now from Katie Nicholson, there could be more to come. President Trump was defiant last night in a 90-minute speech just hours before these

tariffs kicked in, telling Republicans that they will be legendary and that his plan will work. I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. These countries are calling us up, kissing... They are dying to make a deal. Please, please, make a deal. I'll do anything. Trump also said he would soon be announcing a major tariff on pharmaceuticals, and he said those companies would then rush back to the U.S. Now, it's important to know that outside of the U.S., China and India and several European countries, they are major players in the pharmaceuticals industry. So this could

touch off more disruption in the trade war. But already MAGA billionaire Bill Ackman has posted a long diatribe on X urging the president to pause these tariffs. He says if that doesn't happen, small businesses are going to go bankrupt and then medium-sized businesses will follow. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. And China has now issued its response to the Trump trade action, Beijing saying an 84% tariff is now being imposed on all US goods. That's effective tomorrow.

In the midst of all this, global analysts are suggesting China and other Asian nations are now poised to assume a new role on the world stage. Lisa Sheng reports. The world order of the last eight years has been known as dead. Cameron Johnson is a senior partner at supply chain consultancy, Tidal Wave Solutions. Based in Shanghai, he says China and other Asian countries could become key players on the world stage. The whole world is shifting here. If you're not on that train, you're going to get screwed and your people are going to get screwed. China is the world's second largest economy after the U.S. And diplomatically, its influence is also increasingly far-reaching, says Dan Wang, China director for consulting firm Eurasia Group.

We've seen a higher presence of China in areas like the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, with U.S. retreating from foreign aid. But Dan Treffler, an international trade professor at the University of Toronto, warns there are risks of engaging China. China has been very arbitrary in its actions against Canada and those actions have been very harmful. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. Health officials in northern Gaza say at least 23 people are dead following an Israeli airstrike today on a residential block. And there are reports more than half of the dead are women and children. Trent Murray has more. Gaza Civil Defence Agency reported that Israeli jets targeted a multi-storey residential

building in the Shezaya neighbourhood, just east of Gaza City. Video released by Palestinian media showed rescuers pulling dust-covered children from the remains of the building as distraught relatives and paramedics arrived on the scene. In a statement, the IDF says it targeted a senior Hamas commander, who was allegedly responsible for planning and executing attacks in the area. It says it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of what it described as precision weapons. The UN estimates that 390,000 people have been displaced over the past three weeks as the IDF continues to issue evacuation orders in various parts of the strip as troops seize additional territory to expand what Israel has described as buffer zones.

Trent Murray for CBC News, Tel Aviv. Now to the federal election campaign, an NDP leader, Jugmeet Singh, he starts his day in Vancouver, but last night he was in Burnaby, campaigning with Grand Chief Stuart Phillip. It's just how important for me as a national leader it is to always centre as a part of our responsibility at the national level, fighting for justice for indigenous people. I think it's very important, I think it's fundamental to building a fairer Canada. As for the other leaders, Liberal leader Mark Carney starts his day in Calgary. Conservative Pierre Poliev is in Sault Ste. Marie. Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has three stops today for Quebec.

And the Green Party co-leaders are doing interviews in Ottawa. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.