The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/22 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/22 at 12:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. With less than a week left in the election campaign, Conservative leader Pierre Polya has released his party's official platform. It makes a call for tax cuts, a national home building program, and a big boost in military spending. But with the help of some creative accounting, it also pledges to bring down the deficit. Karina Roman explains. Pauliev says he's going to cut unnecessary spending.

It is a plan that will lower taxes and debt by getting rid of bureaucracy, consulting fees, waste and excessive foreign aid to dictators, terrorists and global bureaucracy. But it would seem the Conservatives are also counting on revenues from economic growth. Let me explain. In the revenue column of their platform, they list all the tax cuts and measures that will actually cost money. But because they predict those things will spur economic growth and therefore government revenue, they have booked, as they say, those measures as revenue generators. Now, in the Conservatives' previous platform in 2021, they specifically did not do this.

They, yes, they predicted economic growth, but not counting the possible revenues from that economic growth. And I should also point out the Liberal platform on Saturday did not count possible increased revenues due to economic growth. Karina Roman, CBC News, Ottawa. Five former members of Canada's World Junior Hockey Team have pleaded not guilty in their sexual assault trial now underway in London, Ontario. Former players are in the courtroom and all entered their pleas one at a time and were charged with sexual assault early last year in connection to an incident that is alleged

to have taken place in London in June of 2018. The Vatican has announced that the funeral mass for Pope Francis will be held this Saturday. And in the days leading up to the funeral, the public will have the opportunity to pay their final respects as the late pope lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica. Briar Stewart has more. The Vatican released an image of the pope lying in a coffin at the Santa Marta guest house. It's there where Pope Francis lived, choosing the relatively simple surroundings instead of the Papal

Palace, and it's there where he died early Easter Monday after suffering a stroke and heart failure. Tomorrow the Pope's body will be moved to St. Peter's Basilica, where large crowds have already come for nightly prayers. For the next three days members of the public will be able to come and pay the respects to the Pope. The funeral mass is planned for Saturday. Several world leaders are expected to attend including US President Donald Trump. After the funeral the timing of the papal conclave will become clearer. That's when more than 100 Cardinals from all over the world will take part in a secretive vote at the Vatican to choose the man who will be the next leader of the Catholic Church.

Briar Stewart, CBC News, Rome. And while the process of selecting a successor to Pope Francis, as mentioned, has yet to formally begin, the speculation on who it might be has, of course, already started. Sharon Yonan-Reynolds has more. Next month, the College of Cardinals will convene in Rome to begin a process shrouded in mystery and intrigue. You shouldn't underestimate the importance of the liturgical differences.

JD Flynn is editor-in-chief of The Pillar, a Catholic media organization. He says Cardinals' choices will be between a leader that carries Pope Francis' legacy or someone with a more conservative approach. Flynn says the Vatican's Secretary of State, Pietro Perilin, regarded as a moderate is a serious contender. Emma Anderson is a professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa. She says Canadian Michael Cherney, who heads the Vatican office responsible for migrants, charity

and development, could be an interesting candidate. He's very very big on social justice. There's also the Archbishop of Quebec, Gerald Lacroix, who serves on the Cardinal Council of Advisors. He's kind of a savvy Vatican insider. But she says little is certain in a vote that can take anywhere from mere hours to years. Sharon Yonan-Reynolds, CBC News, Montreal. And that is World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.