The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 12:00 EDT

We're in the midst of the dog days of summer. And it's called that because during this period, Sirius, the dog star, rises with the sun in the morning. Not because it feels like several dogs are breathing their humid breath on you all the time. Can you tell he's a cat person? Hello, I'm Neil Kerkstel. And I'm Chris Houghton. We're the co-hosts of As It Happens.

But throughout the summer, some of our wonderful colleagues will be hosting in our place. We will still be bringing you conversations with people at the center of the day's major news stories here in Canada and throughout the world. You can listen to As It Happens wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Ahead of this month's resumption of Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney has opened a two-day cabinet retreat in Toronto.

And while the Trump tariffs are being discussed, there's more than just trade on the priority list. Janice McGregor explains. Mark Carney punted major budget decisions to this fault, ostensibly wanting to see where the economy was headed, but now it's September. We're a few weeks out from a new fiscal framework coming due, and these decisions can't be put off any longer

amid word last week that the Canadian economy contracted last spring. Consultations were supposed to have wrapped up last week on the government's new Build Canada Homes strategy. We will see if that agency actually manages to launch before Parliament returns. And after months of discussion and debate, the Prime Minister has suggested the first few national infrastructure priorities

are going to be announced this month. The Liberals' industrial policy generally has had a rough summer, especially in manufacturing. Yesterday, for example, came word that the Quebec government is pulling the plug on its partnership in North Volts electric battery plant. That's 3,000 jobs that won't materialize and several hundred million dollars of taxpayer money.

lost. Janice McGregor. CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, conservative leader Pierre Polyev says with youth unemployment on the rise, he wants the liberal government to scrap the temporary foreign workers program. Now, the liberals promised they would cap the temporary foreign worker program at 82,000, but in the first six months, they've already handed out 1005,000 permits. Why is it that they're shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage, temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited. However, the Carney government says Pollyev is misrepresenting the numbers. It says the 105,000 permits he's referring to there, includes permit extensions for people

who are already in Canada. And like the official opposition, the Assembly of First Nations is also monitoring the federal government's top priorities. This is the AFN opens its annual general meeting in Winnipeg. Cameron McIntosh reports. We stand with all Canadians in condemning Trump's illegal tariffs. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nipanak says First Nations share the goal of greater economic independence from the U.S. But there are fears the federal government's Bill C-5, Building Canada Act, intended to fast-track projects of national interest, will trample treaty rights and environmental protections.

First Nations support economic growth and prosperity for all. but not at the expense of our rights. The leaders of 634 First Nations are meeting in Winnipeg. Economics and treaty rights prominent on the agenda. Many concerned about Bill C-5, which was passed without much indigenous consultation. Federal Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations, Rebecca Altie, will speak here. On the agenda, resolutions to call on the government to include First Nations rights in future trade negotiations with the U.S. and Mexico.

Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out a targeted strike on a small vessel in the southern Caribbean. We just literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. These came out of Venezuela. We took it out. The U.S. President says 11 people were killed in the strike. He says the vessel was being used by a drug cartel operating out of Venezuela. Trump has been building up a U.S. naval presence in the Caribbean. He says it's to combat drug trafficking, but in Venezuela, many believe Trump is looking to force President Nicholas Maduro from power.

We're being told the northern lights will light up the night sky tonight across most of Canada. Scientists say high solar activity of light is the reason why they've been stretching beyond their usual range near the Arctic Circle. And they say to optimize your chance of getting the light show, it's best to get as far away as possible from the city limits. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.