The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 09:00 EDT

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You can hear that now on cue with me, Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Washington and Prime Minister Mark Carney. He will be at the White House later this morning for trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. And while the prime minister is under mounting pressure to land a tariff relief agreement of some kind, to a certain extent, the same can be said for the president.

Peter Armstrong has more. There's a long and growing list of American industries clamoring for relief from Donald Trump's trade war. The auto industry has complained loudly and publicly that the tariffs on auto parts are costing companies billions of dollars. Bourbon producers are lobbying for a carve-out that would protect their industry. American soybean farmers are expecting a bailout package as early as this week. None of that alone is enough to move Trump off his trade policies. combined, they show how much and how deep Trump's tariffs are biting into the U.S. economy. GDP growth has largely held up, but consumer confidence is weak.

Job growth is sharply dropped off. So cutting some kind of a deal today on, say, steel or car parts won't make the underlying problem go away, but it could by Trump some relief from those businesses looking to the White House to cut a check to support them as their costs continue to rise. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, the Carney government is busy retooling its border security bill. Bill C2 was drafted to satisfy the demands of the Trump White House, but it hasn't survived the scrutiny of the opposition parties. Janice McGregor has more.

C2 is a long and complex bill. Not all of it is controversial, but the way C2 would allow authorities to intercept communications, search and seize digital data, well, that became a bridge too far. Here's opposition leader Pierre Pollyev, speaking to our colleague Kate McKenna over the weekend announcing conservatives would not allow this bill to move forward. If you expect there's something suspicious in a parcel or an envelope, you set it aside, you go to a judge, and you get a warrant. The envelope or parcel is not going to grow legs and run away. Not only conservatives, but the bloc and new Democrat MPs were also not prepared to vote with the liberals on this one. So, in a minority parliament, the government's gone back to the drawing board, trying to figure out how to pull what couldn't find support in order to save and pass the rest.

Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Two of the leaders of the truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in the winter of 2022 are scheduled to be sentenced in court today. Both Chris Barber and Tamara Leach have been found guilty of mischief, with Barber also convicted of counseling others to commit mischief. The Crown is looking for a seven-year prison. sentence minimum. The defense wants an absolute discharge. This year's recipients have been announced for the Nobel Prize in physics. John Clark, Michelle DeVore and John Martinez for the discovery

of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. That's the Nobel Committee honoring three Americans for their work in expanding the study into quantum mechanics. The Nobel announcements continue. all week with the Peace Prize being awarded on Friday. The nominating process is a closely guarded secret, but we do know that supporters of Donald Trump have put the U.S. President's name forward for consideration. Incidentally, it's possible one of yesterday's Nobel winners in medicine

still doesn't know he's a laureate. The Nobel Committee has been unable to reach Fred Ramsdale and neither is his friends or his colleagues. One of them was told AFP News that he's probably hiking in Idaho away from cell service. service. In New York tonight, it's game three of the American League Divisional Playoff Series with the Blue Jays one win away from finishing off the Yankees. The Jays are up two nothing in this best of five after back-to-back lopsided wins over the weekend. Over those two wins, the Jays outscored New York, 23 to 8. Game time tonight in the Bronx is 8 o'clock Eastern. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. From