The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 20:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm kate mcgilfrey ahead of parliament's return in less than two weeks prime minister mark carney is meeting with his cabinet in toronto the ministers need a strategy for the unresolved trade war with the u.s and to create plans for a fall budget tom perry reports uh good morning everyone um 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's both. It's both. Carney 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 create a separate stand-alone program for difficult to fill agricultural jobs,

though it is worth noting Canada already has a separate immigration stream for farm workers. Prime Minister Mark Carney insists temporary foreign workers are in demand across Canada and especially in Quebec. But he says the government is reviewing the program, along with the country's immigration system as a whole. RCMP in Saskatchewan say they've arrested 16 people, including the woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada. Romana de Doolo is a cult leader

who's been living with her followers in the small village of Richemount, Saskatchewan. RCMP inspector Ashley St. Germain says police descended on the property where they are living early this. morning. It was a privately owned decommissioned school inhabited by a group of individuals. The search warrant was obtained after we received a report of an individual occupying the building was in possession of a firearm. St. Germain says they found four replica handguns in their search. So far, no charges have been laid. Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, has lifted its state of emergency. The town says its water levels have returned to normal after a major

water main break yesterday. The water shutdown forced all businesses and schools to close today, delaying the first day of school to tomorrow. 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 was among the Epstein survivors who went to Capitol Hill today. calling on U.S. lawmakers to force the release of the full investigation details. Last night, more than 30,000 pages and several audio recordings and videos were publicly released. Despite that volume, they contained little new information.

Lacerda says a full release of documents could 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. Finally, Florida aims to become the first state to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates. The state currently requires children attending daycares in public schools to be vaccinated

for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis, polio, and other diseases. Surgeon General Joseph Latipo calls vaccine mandates a quote, immoral intrusion on people's rights. That's The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery.