The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/22 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/22 at 21:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a live address in Ottawa tonight. The speech was meant to get buy-in from Canadians before his government unveils its first federal budget on Tuesday, November 4th. Marine of Von Stackleberg has more. It's our country. It's your future. And we are going to give it back to you.

Addressing students at the University of Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to prime Canadians for his first budget. One he's pitched will be generational. We will do what it takes. Carney has already said where his government plans to spend. Tens of billions of dollars on the military, infrastructure projects, and support for businesses and workers hit hard by Trump's tariffs. now announcing his goal to double Canada's exports outside of the U.S. in a decade.

All of this while promising to streamline the government. It will take some sacrifices and it will take some time. Carney says the budget will also include new plans for immigration and climate change. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. For days, Conservative leader Pierre Pollyav has been under fire from other parties for suggesting the Mounties covered up liberal scandals. But now comes news that members of his own caucus are also upset with the comments.

Kay McKenna reports. Five conservative caucus members told Radio Canada that they're getting frustrated. They say he isn't appearing prime ministerial and his implication that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be imprisoned is irresponsible. The leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the liberal government.

The anger stems from these comments made by Pollyev on the podcast, Northern Perspective. The conservative leader said Trudeau broke the law when he took a free vacation in 2016 to the Aga Khan's private island. He also said the former prime minister probably broke the law during the SNC Lavalin affair. Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have been involved in jail time if the RCMP had been doing its job. Some Harper-era conservatives have chafed at Pollyev's implication of political interference.

Writing in editorials, he is hurting his party's own credibility. Polia faces a leadership review in January. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Another Canadian auto plant is losing production and jobs to the U.S. An American truck manufacturer based in St. Therese, Quebec, says trucks made for the U.S. market will now be made south of the border. The union says that means 300 workers at the Packar plant will lose their jobs. Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump says, all imported, medium and heavy-duty trucks will face a 25 percent tariff. of starting November 1st.

The U.S. is slapping sanctions on Russia's two biggest oil companies. It accuses Moscow of furthering what it calls a senseless war. There's been a wave of intensifying attacks since a planned meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was canceled. As Breyer Stewart reports, it comes as the chief of NATO visits Washington. Mark Ruta was meeting with U.S. senators, and he was also going to be meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to really help any way he can.

when it comes to brokering some kind of peace between Ukraine and Russia. Naruto was very complimentary of Trump's role that he played in helping to cement a ceasefire in Gaza. And I think likely Trump was hoping that some of that peacemaker momentum could carry on to the war in Ukraine, which she once vowed to end in 24 hours. But these Washington-led negotiations appear to be at a standstill. The White House has decided to shelve plans for a summit between Trump and Putin, Budapest, Hungary. And it was shelved after it appears that Russia was unwilling to compromise at all, unwilling to agree to that ceasefire, which the U.S. has proposed, which would freeze the

current lines in the war for at least 30 days. Will negotiations continue? Breyer Stewart, CBC News, London. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.