The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 06:00 EDT

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This is World Report. Good morning, I'm John Northcott. Federal leaders went face to face last night for the final time in this federal election campaign. The one and only English language debate saw the leaders spar over the trade war, the cost of living, and even former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But as Olivia Stefanovich reports, most of the attacks targeted the perceived front-runner.

Mr. Carney, they're coming at you from both sides. The liberal leader in the crossfire You are exactly the same in the same line as Justin Trudeau and the rest of the liberal team That is now making up your cabinet conservative leader Pierre Poliev Repeatedly tried to paint Mark Carney in the same image of his predecessor. Look, I'm very different person from Justin Trudeau Focus is on results. Carney pushed back.

I know you want to be running against Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau isn't here. Although the new liberal leader was the main target, Carney wasn't the only one who came under attack. Conservatives have a plan for change. And that plan includes cutting every measure to help people out. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh interrupted Poliev several times. You want to save people two thousand dollars but cut their dental care which is thousands of dollars.

Cut their child care which is thousands of dollars. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchette also engaged in some sharp exchanges with Carney over areas of provincial jurisdiction. That means preserving pharmacare, dental care, child care, reinforcing health care, spending our whole social... Intrusion, intrusion, intrusion, intrusion in Quebec, jurisdiction over and again. Voters can begin making their judgments on the outcome of the debate performances today when advance polls open.

Olivier Stivanovic, CBC News, Montreal. With ten days to go before the election for the federal party leaders last night's debate, a final push to woo voters, some of whom remain undecided. The CBC's Pippa Reid has more. He's kind of dry, he's kind of technocratic, it's kind of like when you're sitting in a poli-side class going on for three hours kind of thing. Seeking more substance from party leaders in the debate showdown, undecided voter Grace Pang was left disappointed.

Poor Billy was kind of treated as this bundled issue of all these different things that make it up. It was a sentiment echoed by fellow undecided voters Trent Daly and Savannah Stewart. The costs are rising, wages are stagnant, what are they going to do specifically? Housing is another big one, it doesn't really seem to be addressed. All three voters were watching the debate closely and are still on the fence. They wanted to be wooed by the leaders and find one they could support in a tightening race. Calgary pollster and political commentator Janet Brown cautions.

Debates really don't matter that much, particularly when they come this late in the campaign. She says Canadians are exceptionally dialled in and many have already made their choice. You know, maybe it really speaks to the fact that we're headed to an election with high voter turnout. If our three undecided voters were looking for an epiphany last night, they didn't find one. I'm pretty bland and I felt like it doesn't change much. It kind of leaves me still really undecided and in the middle.

I wouldn't say there was anything that necessarily moved the needle too much one way or the other. With a little more than a week before election day, they're hoping one candidate or another will say something that will inspire them and that's who will win their vote. Pippa Reid, CBC News, Edmonton. In other news, the US is threatening to walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace talks if no progress is made soon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been in Paris for meetings with European and Ukrainian officials.

He says those talks were positive, but Rubio says the process cannot continue on for months. This is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserve just as much if not more attention. So if they're serious about peace either side or both we want to help. If it's not going to happen then we're just going to move on. Keefe is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of stalling for time to make gains on the battlefield. During the US presidential campaign Donald Trump had promised to end the war within his

first 24 hours in the White House. The cost of tariffs now being felt on both sides of the border, Canadians may need to find alternatives to American products to avoid the retaliatory charges applied by the federal government. But in many cases, businesses don't have any.