The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 10:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. With the throne speech now in the books, MPs are getting down to work today in the House of Commons. And with parliamentary business already tabled, the ruling Liberals have launched a busy agenda. Here's Janice McGregor. When MPs reconvened after the throne speech yesterday, the government's spending estimates were immediately tabled. House Leader Stephen McKinnon laid out a plan for debating and then voting to authorize those. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne introduced the personal income tax cut.

MPs will vote to authorize that before the summer. But for this first week, the House is going to be debating the priorities that the government laid out in yesterday's Throne speech. And surprise, Andrew Scheer, who now serves as opposition leader, wasn't impressed. It's not good enough to say what you said yesterday. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say out in yesterday's throne speech. And surprise, Andrew Scheer, who now serves as opposition

leader, wasn't impressed. It's not good enough to say what you intend to do. You have to provide some kind of a roadmap to get there. No one expects the Conservatives to support the throne speech when it comes to a vote a week from today. But the Liberals are expected to find the few additional votes they need elsewhere to establish the confidence of the House and then get down to governing again. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa.

U.S. President Donald Trump is saying if Canada wants to join his proposed Golden Dome missile defense system, it will cost $61 billion. But he says if Canada becomes the 51st state, it will be free. On social media, Trump is claiming that Ottawa is considering that offer. But that's news to Prime Minister Mark Carney. We are seeing the danger of overreliance on the United States economically and also from a security perspective. So we will cooperate where necessary, wherein it's in both of our interests very clearly, but we won't necessarily cooperate.

That's Prime Minister Carney appearing on Power and Politics. He says his immediate priority is for Canada to join Rearm Europe by July 1st. It's a EU initiative aimed at boosting European defense capabilities over the next five years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confirming his forces have killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar. He is the younger brother of the militant group's deceased leader Yahya Sinwar. The elder brother is believed to have mastermind the October 2023 attacks on Israel. Mohammed Sinwar was believed to have been the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza earlier this month. The Gaza Health Ministry is saying that attack killed at least 28 people.

It's amounting concern across the country and in particular this spring in the Yukon. Indigenous leaders are worried that as the search continues for residential school unmarked graves, support for these efforts may be diminishing. Catherine Pilkington has more now from Whitehorse. They're saying that's false information. Sandra Johnson is an elder with the Yukon Residential Schools Missing Children Project. She's concerned federal funding cuts and growing residential school denialism will hinder the group's plans this year. Plans that involve ground penetrating radar searches, as well as archival research.

This really did happen and it's still happening in subtle ways. Over the past year, the federal government has made cuts to organizations that support search efforts. Some indigenous researchers worry that cuts could fuel denialism. They say they're disturbed by some of the discourse they've seen on social media and heard from Canadian politicians. It just seems only recently that there's been this enormous pushback. disturbed by some of the discourse they've seen on social media and heard from Canadian politicians. It just seems only recently that there's been this enormous pushback.

That's Raymond Frogner, senior director of research with the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation. It's unclear what funding will look like under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The federal government did not return a request for comment by deadline. Katrin Pilkington, CBC News, Whitehorse. The latest global forecast is suggesting that while the last decade was the hottest ever recorded, the next five years could be even hotter. We're getting more frequent and intense heatwaves, more extreme rainfall events, more devastating

droughts. We will see all of those being exacerbated as the global temperatures continue to rise. Speaking to the BBC, that's Liz Bentley, the chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society. She says there's an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record.