The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 09:00 EDT

A lot of news podcasts give you information, the basic facts of a story. What's different about your world tonight is we actually take you there. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Aleppo. Jerusalem. Ottawa. Prince Albert. Susan Ormiston, CBC News in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica.

Correspondents around the world, on the ground, and at the source where news is happening. So don't just know, go. Your world tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We're getting an update today on the state of Canada's trade war with the United States. Statistics Canada has just released its latest international trade numbers.

And despite the Trump tariffs, exports to the U.S. actually rose for a third straight month. Peter Armstrong has more. The Canadian economy is showing some remarkable resiliency. Total exports are up. This is the third consecutive monthly increase we've seen. And if you scale out over the year, through the first seven months of 2025, exports are up 1% compared to last year. Now, month-to-month exports to the United States, those were up 5% in July, largely driven by crude oil and passenger cars. But over that same seven-month period to start the year, U.S. total exports through that period are down 2.9%.

Now, it's safe to say the reason it's been so resilient is largely due to those vast exemptions for QSMA compliant products. 90% of what Canadian sell to the U.S. is tariff-free, at least for now. And that is why those U.S.-Canada negotiations are so important. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, following a petition filed last night, the Trump administration is taking its tariff fight to the Supreme Court. We have a very, very big case in the Supreme Court. I can only say this. If we don't win that case, our country is going to suffer so greatly. What's the backup plan, sir? But I think we're going to have a big victory. That's U.S. President Donald Trump, who is asking the court to issue a ruling as quickly as possible.

The administration is arguing the president has the right to continue with his tariff campaign. Despite the fact, a federal appeals court determined last week that most of those tariffs issued to date are illegal. As for the tariffs issued on Canadian exports, they are not included in Trump's Supreme Court case. Now, to Toronto and Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet retreat, ahead of the resumption of Parliament later this month, this is day two of the government's two-day planning session. Tom Perry reports. We're going to focus on being efficient. As he kicked off his cabinet meeting,

yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney leaned hard into a few key issues, promising to bring in a budget that would include investment, but also austerity. So we need to rein in spending. We need to find efficiencies. Carney as well, revealing he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump this week about a wide range of issues, including tariffs and trade. But while Carney was mapping out his government's priorities for the coming months, the reality is that Mark Carney is failing. Conservative leader, Pierre Pauliev, was in the Toronto area, taking. aim at the Prime Minister over his budget plans and dealings with the

U.S. President. Pauliev, who lost his Ottawa area seat in the last election, will be back in the House of Commons when Parliament resumes after winning a safe conservative riding in Alberta in a by-election, the conservative leader looking to challenge the carefully laid plans of Kearney

and his ministers. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. Incidentally, the Libyan Cabinet was going to hear from Kevin Roberts today. He's the head of a prominent conservative think tank and one of the authors of Project 2025. That policy blueprint proposes a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government. Prime Minister's office is now saying Roberts' office has indicated he can no longer take part in today's discussions.

Officials in Portugal say a Canadian is among the injured in yesterday's finicular crash in Lisbon. The Canadian's condition is not known and no name has been released. 17 people were killed in the incident that saw the glorious streetcar, rail and crash into a building. This woman calls the incident a tragedy that's not good for the city's image. The streetcar offers a scenic ride of a steep hill and is a popular tourist attraction. The government says the cause of the crash is still being investigated and today Portugal is observing a national day of mourning.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cumm. Thanks.