The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 20:00 EDT

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says she's in solution mode following Donald Trump's doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Jolie says she's meeting with steel companies and industry leaders. She also confirms Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken to Trump in a bid to reach a new agreement but she won't go into details. We won't negotiate in public and we'll let the Prime Minister do his work and we will let all ministers do their work. Ottawa is trying to reach a tariff deal with the White House before this month's G7 summit. For now, Jolie says Canada needs a stronger domestic steel sector. She's urging support for an infrastructure bill that would create demand for Canadian-produced metals.

More than 30,000 people are out of their homes as wildfires burn across the country, and hundreds of homes and buildings are lost. Saskatchewan officials are concerned two of the province's largest fires, the Piscu and Shoe fires, could merge. The fire could grow to more than 500 square hectares or eight or nine times the size of the Greater Toronto area. Over the border in Alberta, half the town of Chippewa Lake has burned. I can say that it can't come soon enough. President Donald Trump speaking at the Oval Office about his proclamation signed yesterday

banning people from 12 countries from entering the US. Trump says the move was needed to protect against foreign terrorists and other security threats. He made the comments while meeting with German Chancellor Frederick Merce. We want to keep bad people out of our country. The Biden administration allowed some horrendous people and we're getting them out one by one and we're not stopping until we get them out. We have thousands of murderers. I hate to, I even hate to say this in front of the Chancellor. Some of the countries affected by the ban include Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Iran

and Somalia. Quebec's immigration minister is looking to reduce immigration. The province is proposing to limit the number of permanent newcomers and asking Ottawa to cut in half the number of foreign students and temporary foreign workers. Cathy Senay has the details. We don't shut the gate. We are lowering our goals. Jean-François Robert is laying out three options, all much lower than the current numbers. They range from 25,000 and 45,000 permanent immigrants per year.

He wants the federal government to cut the number of temporary immigrants by half. Arcel Apollon, executive director of Maison d'Haïti, is disappointed. The most beneficial thing, we do believe believe would be to allow these people to transition towards a permanent status here in Quebec. While Véronique Proulx from the Quebec Federation of Chambers of Commerce says Robert's timing in the middle of a trade war with the U.S. couldn't be worse. Their number one issue is labor shortages. Robert will unveil his final immigration plan this fall, following consultations. Kat Sissonni, CBC News, Quebec City. In Ontario, more than 120 charges have been laid in a child sex investigation, with dozens

of men arrested across the province and one of them nabbed in B.C. Ali Chyassant tells us how. Ontario provincial police have arrested 36 people in this child predator bust and they caught them by going undercover and posing as children online. OPP Detective Sergeant Tim Brown. Wherever the kids are, wherever the kids are getting together to communicate, that's where the offenders are going to be. It can be gaming sites with live chat features or just social media, anywhere that children

can be vulnerable to being lured by predators. The accused were arrested all over Ontario from Ottawa to Toronto, Niagara Falls and one man in Abbotsford, BC. Detective Sergeant Brown says parents need to be diligent in policing their children's online activity. Most parents would not let their kids kind of wander through downtown Toronto or any kind of major city unsupervised, but we seem quite comfortable to let our kids roam the world on the internet. The provincial strategy to protect children from online sexual exploitation is an ongoing operation. More arrests are expected. Ali Chiesan, CBC News, Toronto.

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