The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 14:00 EDT

It's summer, and it's going to be a hot one in Canadian politics. I'm Catherine Cullen. Join me and some of CBC's best political reporters as we bring you all new summer programming, focused on everything from negotiating with Donald Trump to Canada's climate goals, to the future of the Senate, and more. We'll talk to the chief of the defense staff and a top senator. We'll visit the Maritimes to learn about the future of energy production there. Catch the House Saturdays wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. 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. 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 105,000 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? Ottawa says the 105,000 permits, Pahliav, is referring to, includes permit extensions for people who are already in the country. Prime Minister Mark Carney insists temporary foreign workers are in demand across Canada, especially in Quebec. He also says the government is working on. on setting new immigration goals. Pollyev says the conservatives would create a separate stand-alone program

for difficult to fill agricultural jobs. Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with his cabinet in Toronto today. It's less than two weeks before Parliament returns and about a month before his government presents its first federal budget. Carney says cutting government spending is a top priority. Our approach to budgeting is to spend less so that Canadians can invest more. So big focus on reducing our operational spending, think of it as our day-to-day spending, well at the same time, catalyzing enormous investment in those big projects and building homes.

Carney also says that his government will draw up plans to help industries that have been hurt by Donald Trump's tariffs. 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. It's a surement of one of the enquiries the most difficult. 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. Kamez says her investigation found there were 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 girl's death a turning point.

Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are urging the White House to release all files related to his case. Today is the first time that I ever speak publicly about what happened to me. I never thought that I would find myself here. Marina Lacerda is among the survivors on Capitol Hill calling on Congress to better protect abuse victims. Last night, more than 30,000 pages and several audio.

recordings and videos were publicly released. Lawmakers say most do not contain new information. Lacerda says a full release of documents would help survivors move on. It's so hard to begin to heal knowing that there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do. The government is still in possession right now of the documents that could help me remember and get over all of this maybe. President Donald Trump dismissed the call for more documents, calling. it a quote, Democrat hoax. And Florida aims to become the first state to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates. The state currently requires children attending daycares and public

schools to be vaccinated for measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, polio, and other diseases. Surgeon General Joseph Latipo calls vaccine mandates a, quote, immoral intrusion on people's rights, which he compares to slavery. And that is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Kate McGilfrey.