The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 06:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney flies to Washington today, ahead of his White House meeting tomorrow with US President Donald Trump. It's Carney's first trip to the Oval Office since his election victory earlier this month, and it's the first big test in what could be the defining issue of his leadership. JP Tasker has more. If Canada was a state, it wouldn't cost us, it would be great. U.S. President Donald Trump is renewing his 51st state taunts ahead of a high-stakes meeting

with Canada's newly elected prime minister. But he's ruling out the use of military force to annex the country. I don't see it with Canada, I just don't see it, I have to be honest with you. This will never ever happen. Mark Carney is dismissing the takeover talk and setting the bar low for Tuesday's Oval Office meeting. The two leaders will discuss trade irritants, but the Liberal government is not expecting a major breakthrough. Industry Minister Anita Onnan. My hope and our hope is that this will be the continuation of a productive conversation.

Canada's Conservatives are expecting more than that. Tory House leader Andrew Scheer. He promised Canadians during the election that he would get a deal to lift the tariffs. There are small signs the relationship may be moving in the right direction. While Trump labeled Justin Trudeau the governor, he's calling Mark Carney a nice gentleman. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Another news from the Trump White House. The President says he has authorized the Department of Commerce to implement a 100 percent tariff

on all movies coming into the U.S. that have been produced in foreign countries. It's common for film companies to include production both in the U.S. and other countries with favorable tax incentives like Canada. Canada's film industry is a multi-million dollar economic sector that employs thousands of workers across the country. More details are coming to light about a trip Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made in January to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, and critics are questioning whether the cost of that visit represents value for money.

Julia Wong has more. What I asked the president was, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? And he said yes. It was a roughly 48-hour trip to Florida to meet with then-president-elect Donald Trump, a meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called constructive. The unexpected visit, announced on social media, took place as a trade war loomed with the United States. Now, documents obtained by CBC News show Smith's chief of staff, principal secretary, and Alberta's

senior representative to the U.S. made the trip with her. The price tag? More than $10,000. The bigger question is whether this was a true investment, where there was some kind of return on investment. Laurie Williams is a political science professor at Mount Royal University. We're talking about a large sum of money. Smith's office pointed to comments she has previously made about the visit, where she said she emphasized the U.S.-Canadian energy relationship to Trump and met key allies, adding her strategy is to meet with people who can influence the U.S. president. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton.

Now overseas, where Canada's contribution and sacrifice are being celebrated in the Netherlands as part of this week's Victory in Europe Day celebrations. Chris Brown reports. I'm in the town of Wagenegen, right across from the Hotel de Verrelde, where a Canadian general accepted the surrender of Nazi German forces in the Netherlands 80 years ago on this day. And the Dutch have built an entire long weekend of freedom celebrations around this place with the guest of honor, 22 Canadian veterans of the war, all between 96 and 105 years old. They've already had an incredibly busy few days attending

parades in nearby Appledorn and a series of commemorations at Canadian war cemeteries. But organizers here are also focusing on the present by inviting military detachments from NATO countries to march with the veterans to underscore the importance to Europe of collective security, which of course is being tested by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and doubts over US President Donald Trump's commitment to the NATO alliance. Chris Brown, CBC News in Wageningen. And that is the World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.