The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/19 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/19 at 15:00 EDT

I've been covering politics for 20 years and I can't remember a time like now when everything we thought we knew has been thrown in the air. From Trudeau's resignation to Trump's tariffs to a spring election during huge shifts in the polls. There's a lot at stake and power and politics is here to guide you through it. I'm David Cochran and on CBC's only political

daily I speak to the key players in this election. From the candidates to the analysts to the journalists on the campaign trail, you can find power and politics wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Liberal leader Mark Carney has released his party's platform. Today, I'm proud to launch Canada Strong. Our plan to unite, to secure, to protect and build Canada.

Carney making his announcement in Whitby, Ontario. His platform promises nearly $130 billion in new spending over the next four years, adding about $255 billion to the federal debt. We're not spending that amount of money. We're investing that amount of money. So we're using very limited government resources to catalyze enormous private sector investment. And that's what drives this economy forward. That's what meets this moment. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev's calling the liberal platform too expensive for Canadians.

Amazingly, Mr. Carney plans to run even bigger inflationary deficits than Justin Trudeau had already budgeted. One Carney-friendly economist on Twitter said that this liberal platform is a quote spenderama with even bigger deficits than freelance that just go on forever. Poliev hasn't released his fully costed platform yet. He says he's already shared much of it and that he'll unveil the final document soon. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh also releasing his party's costed platform during a morning appearance in Burnaby, BC. So here's what we'll fight to deliver in the first year. Real steps towards a family doctor for every Canadian.

Universal PharmaCare, national rent control, grocery price caps, a real fix to EI and tax relief for working people. Singh's promising to push for expanded pharma care to cover essential medicines and mental health services. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is maintaining his party's opposition to pipelines, even as he admits it could hurt Western Canada's economy. I always say that I would accept easily for more money to be left in Alberta in order for them to start this change toward a greener economy, which I would support. And if they do turn to greener economy, I think I will support their independence.

He accuses Canadian voters of putting all their eggs in the liberal basket saying they don't all have to be read. A recent survey says young people are getting their federal election information from social media. Concordia University media studies PhD candidate Colleen McCool says social media can limit the diversity of views that voters hear. What this order does is temporarily direct the Trump administration not to remove anyone held in the North Texas detention facility until there is a further order from the Supreme Court. The people at the center of this were believed to face imminent deportation under a centuries-old law. The order didn't explain the court's reasoning here. The decision comes after the American Civil Liberties Union appealed to the court, arguing the men had not been given due process to defend

themselves. The Trump administration accuses them of being part of a Venezuelan gang, but has offered no proof to back that claim. With this latest development, the administration is expected to return to the Supreme Court soon in an effort to persuade the justices to lift their temporary order. Albert Delatalla, CBC News, Toronto. Apologies, I played the wrong tape there. Referring to that piece, Albert Delatalla was reporting on the US Supreme Court

throwing a wrench into the Trump administration's plans to deport a group of Venezuelans. They were being held in Texas and could have been sent to El Salvador possibly this weekend. But early this morning, the court ordered a temporary pause. And to that recent survey I mentioned Concordia University Media Studies PhD candidate Colleen McCool says social media can limit the diversity of views that voters hear. So it's important that voters should do their own fact checking before heading to the polls.

And that is your World This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. And for news anytime, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.