The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 23:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Fague. Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are having talks out of the spotlight to reach a trade agreement and lift tariffs. This is industry leaders push the federal government to make a deal before it's too late. Raffaele Boucher-Canyon has more. Are you any closer to reaching a deal? Industry Minister Melanie Jolie revealing little about ongoing trade negotiations with

the U.S. I won't answer that question. We won't negotiate in public. But a source with knowledge of the talks tells CBC News and Radio Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump have been chatting on the phone and texting each other ever since their meeting in Washington about a month ago. How are they going with... They're doing well, thank you.

Sources say there could be some sort of Canada-US trade deal by the time the two leaders meet at the G7 in Alberta later in June. That could not come soon enough for steel and aluminum companies, bracing after Trump doubled tariffs on all imported products from those industries, now at 50%. Whatever the government does decide, the pressure to act is mounting. Rafi B. Jikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile Canada posted its largest trade deficit ever in April. The more than seven billion dollar deficit is a huge increase from 2.3 billion dollars in

March. Statistics Canada says slowing trade with the US is behind the increase. The weather is a challenge in fighting wildfires in Saskatchewan. There hasn't been any significant rain in some areas, but officials have lifted the evacuation order in one northern community. Alexander Silberman is there. In Wayaquin, Saskatchewan, helicopters are working around the clock to battle wildfires from the air. As crews race to put out hot spots.

It used to be nice out here actually. There's a lot of green. There's nothing but black around here now. Firefighter Jordan Lavallee helped save the hamlet from widespread damage. The forest around it charred. But homes, including the one he grew up in, are safe. It got pretty close actually. Just down the road road it's right on the right on the perimeter it's maybe five feet in and then it's all burned up there. So it stopped feet away from the edge of town? Yeah. More than 10,000 people have now been forced to evacuate in Saskatchewan with 27 active

wildfires. The area burned is nearly double the size of Prince Edward Island. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Wayaquin, Saskatchewan. One is the richest man in the world. The other may be the most powerful. And they're engaged in an unprecedented public feud. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trading accusations and insults on social media. Alexander Panetta has more. With Germany's chancellor seated right next to him, Trump started taking digs at Musk,

basically calling him bitter since leaving the administration. Elon and I had a great relationship. People leave my administration and they love us. And then at some point they miss it so badly and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. And then it took off. The men started firing salvo after salvo on their respective social media platforms. Musk, on his site X, demanded a little more gratitude. Without me, Musk said, Trump would have lost the election. Then on his site, Truth Social, Trump issued a veiled threat

to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies. And as it spiraled over the afternoon, Musk made it eye-poppingly personal. Without offering any proof or any specifics, he seemed to suggest that the real reason the U.S. government hasn't released all the files on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein is because Trump's name appears in those files. The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court. The judges are involved in the tribunal's investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel and Gaza.

Washington calls the investigation an abuse of power and an infringement on the sovereignty of the U.S. and its ally Israel. The court says the sanctions are an attempt to undermine its independence. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fahy.