The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 22:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Fague. Industry Minister Melanie Jolie 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 wouldn'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.

A collapse of Canadian exports to the United States has caused this country's trade deficit to reach a historic level. $7.1 billion for the month of April. As Peter Armstrong explains, it's the latest proof of the economic damage from US tariffs. We've been hearing from businesses big and small right across the country that have been telling us about this drop off in demand. And until now though, we weren't seeing that in the official data, but now we are. It's exports. The pain is here. We knew that, but

now we can see it. Remember, we've got a bit of a model to work with here. In 2018, the US steel tariffs, and we saw a similar version of this, a surge in exports ahead of the tariffs, then a drop off, then about six months or so as businesses in the US tried to stretch out their inventories, then they look for alternatives, and eventually they had to start paying the tariff. That was a much smaller sliver of trade. It was just steel and aluminum so it was contained and it didn't lead to the broader uncertainty that's weighing on so many Canadian businesses today whether they're facing tariffs or not right now, they're concerned that you know, they might be next. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. In the middle of Canada's worst measles outbreak in decades, a premature baby born with the illness has

died in Ontario. The province's chief medical officer says the mother was not vaccinated and passed the virus on to her child. Health reporter Jennifer Yoon has more. Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's chief medical officer said while measles may have been a contributing factor in both the premature birth and the death, the infant also had other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus. There are a lot of possible things contributing to this really sad outcome.

Dr. Jacqueline Wong, who specializes in infectious diseases at McMaster Children's Hospital, says without more details we may never know if the measles infection was the main reason the child died. When you have a premature baby and many of their organs might not be fully developed, it's very difficult for that baby to survive. There are almost 3,000 confirmed and probable cases so far this year across Canada. Because measles kills one to three people per every 1,000 infected, this death is a tragedy public health officials have been bracing for.

Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Toronto. Also 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 Chieson 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 Chiasin, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For news anytime, you can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Claude Feig. [♪upbeat music playing.♪