The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 15:00 EDT

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Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet has been sworn in. Carney says they will bring new ideas and take decisive actions. This cabinet is smaller and more focused than those of previous governments. It will operate with a commitment to true cabinet government with everyone expected and empowered to show leadership. In all, there are 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state. 24 of them joined the cabinet for the first time. Several senior cabinet ministers continue in their

roles. They include Francois Philippe Champagne, Christia Freeland and Dominique LeBlanc, continuing as finance, transport and intergovernmental affairs ministers respectively. Now, Pierre Poliev says so far it's not a promising start for the new prime minister. The conservative leader speaking from Parliament Hill after Carney unveiled his Cabinet. Poliev says there are too many prominent names in Cabinet who served under Justin Trudeau. Then there's Jolie, LeBlanc, Haidou, Annan. Annan was the president of the Treasury Board, during which time the bureaucracy and the consultant bills blew out of control in all.

Fourteen Trudeau ministers are now in Carney's cabinet. It's more of the same when Canada needs real change. Poliev says some new faces are also problematic. He points to new housing minister Gregor Robertson. Now he was mayor of Vancouver from 2008 to 2018. That was a time of surging housing costs in the city. Honda is postponing a $15 billion investment project in electric vehicles. The plan was to build an EV supply chain in Alliston, Ontario.

It aimed to produce 200,000 vehicles each year starting in 2028. The company says it's postponing plans by two years due to a slowdown in the EV market. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he spoke with Honda. They promised us they're going to continue on with their expansion, they're going to keep that facility moving forward, so we'll just see how that moves forward but we're very confident that we'll continue producing Honda vehicles here in Ontario. Honda says the decision has no impact on jobs or current production at the

manufacturing facility in Aliston. Donald Trump is lifting sanctions on Syria that have been in place for more than a decade. Syria says it welcomes the decision as a new start in the path to reconstruction. The U.S. President made the announcement in Saudi Arabia during a major diplomatic tour through the Middle East. Erin Collins has more. Donald Trump speaking about the future of Syria at an investment forum in Saudi Arabia. The President announcing the U.S. would begin normalizing relations with Syria for the first time in more than a decade.

The U.S. has had sanctions on Syria since a civil war broke out in that country in 2011. The lifting of those sanctions seen as key to rebuilding Syria's economy. I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness. Trump on a four-day tour of the region said his decision to lift sanctions on Syria came after consulting with the leaders of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The president will reportedly meet with Syria's new president tomorrow. Erin Collins, CBC News, Washington.

To New York and the trial of Sean Diddy Combs. Very ready. He's confident. Douglas Wigdor is the attorney for Cassie Ventura who takes the stand today. The singer is Combs ex-girlfriend and the prosecution's star witness. Her lawsuit alleging sexual and domestic abuse sparked the current U.S. federal investigation. The jury also saw the notorious hotel surveillance footage of an argument between Combs and Ventura in 2016. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges including sex trafficking and racketeering.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.