The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 16:00 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, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev 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. Pahliav 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, but he says the government is working on setting new goals. Mark Carney, meanwhile, is meeting with his cabinet in Toronto today 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-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 spoke. 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 has. happened. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. 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 Giankemeil says this was one of the most difficult investigative. 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. 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 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. activity. 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, chickenpox, hepatitis, polio, and other diseases. Surgeon General Joseph Ladipo calls vaccine mandates a, quote, immoral intrusion on people's rights, which he compares to slavery. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, you can always visit our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.