The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 13:00 EDT

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Follow Commotion wherever you get your podcast. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with his cabinet in Toronto, ahead of Parliament's return in less than two weeks. The ministers are drawing up a strategy for the unresolved trade war with the U.S. and plans for a fall budget. Tom Perry reports. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much. In the past, this would have been called a cabinet retreat, though Mark Carney has a more formal business-like term for this two-year. day session, a cabinet planning forum. Carney getting together with his ministers to map out the

months ahead, including a budget, he says, will combine investment with austerity. It's both. It's both. We... Kearney says the government will reign in spending and has instructed federal departments to start identifying places to cut. The prime minister also offered an update on trade talks with the U.S. I last spoke to the president Monday evening. We spoke at length. Kearney, revealing he spoke with Donald Trump this week on a wide range of issues, including trade, a conversation that, in the past, would likely have been announced and highlighted by the prime minister's office soon after it happened. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto.

Conservative leader Pierre Pahliav is calling on the federal government to scrap the temporary foreign workers program. He says the program has flooded the market with cheap labor and made it harder for young Canadians to find work. 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? Polyev says the conservatives would instead create a separate standalone program for difficult to fill agricultural jobs. Prime Minister Mark Carney insists temporary foreign workers are in demand across Canada, especially in Quebec. He admits that Canada can improve its immigration policies and says the government is working on setting new goals. A coroner's report says the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Quebec could have been prevented. The investigation says government agencies failed to coordinate their investigations despite numerous red flags, including malnourishment and abuse.

Sarah Levitt has the story and a warning some of these details are disturbing. Quebec coroner, Gianne Kempel says this was one of the most difficult investigations she's done in her career. The seven-year-old girl, who CBC News is not naming, died in 2019. Police found her confined in a room bound with duct tape, including over her mouth. Her father found guilty of confinement, her stepmother of unpremeditated murder and confinement. Camel says her investigation found there were more. multiple warning signs in the years leading up to the girl's death and that several government agencies, including police, child protective services,

and the health system worked in silos. There were signs of negligence, abuse, malnutrition, and more. Now, Kamez says there needs to be a complete overhaul of how Quebec deals with vulnerable children, calling the girls' death a turning point. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal. Conception Bay, South Newfoundland, remains under a state of emergency, A water main break yesterday meant all businesses were ordered to close. Overnight repairs have been successful, but the process to get water back to normal is slow going.

The town continues to ask everyone to only use water for emergency reasons to preserve it for firefighting efforts. And Donald Trump is defending the U.S. military strike that destroyed a boat traveling in international waters in the Southern Caribbean. The White House claims that yesterday's attack targeted a Venezuelan drug cartel, and killed nearly a dozen smugglers. They were hit, obviously. They won't be doing it again. And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they watch that tape.

They're going to say, let's not do this. We have to protect our country, and we're going to. The bombing escalates an already tense relationship between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments. Trump has repeatedly accused President Nicholas Maduro without evidence of controlling gang activity. And that is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Kate McGilfrey.