The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/05 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/05 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Both Prime Minister Mark Carney and finance minister Francois Philippe Champagne will be out today selling the liberal budget. And while the budget adds significantly to the federal deficit, Carney and Champagne are eager to defend their spending plans, like among others, the 50s. $61 billion infrastructure program.

Karen Paul's reports. As this construction crew was pouring concrete to fix sidewalks on a busy Winnipeg Street, federal finance minister Francois Philippe Champagne was announcing $51 billion in local infrastructure investments over the next decade. And we will build infrastructure in communities all across Canada with the new build community strong fund. That includes roads, recreation and athletic centers, and hospitals.

But Felicia Wiltshire of the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association wants more details. What exactly they're going to be investing in, and then how much is available for Manitoba. Housing is also a key pillar, with $25 billion in new money and about $130 billion in total federal housing commitments over five years. The liberals are aiming to double the pace of construction over the next decade, promising a speed and scale not seen in generations. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Winnipeg. Incidentally, the Liberal Caucus has grown by one member.

Nova Scotia MP Chris Dantrema has left the Conservative Party and is now a liberal. Dantrema crossed the floor just hours after the budget was tabled, saying he considers the Liberals' fiscal plan a better path forward for his writing and for the country. BC Conservative MP Aaron Gunn told reporters in Ottawa that Dantraman is a coward, Meanwhile, the U.S. tariffs that have shaped the direction of the liberal budget face a crucial test today in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in a case that looks to determine if the tariffs are legal. Mike Crawley reports. It's in one of the most important decisions in the history of our country.

U.S. President Donald Trump showing just how badly he wants to win this case. At stake, billions of dollars' worth of tariffs he's imposed on imports from dozens of countries. including Canada. Without tariffs, our country would be in great jeopardy. The case before the Supreme Court does not address the tariffs Trump has levied on specific sectors. Instead, it's focused on Trump's use of an economic emergency law to hit countries with broad-based tariffs over cross-border fentanyl trafficking and long-running trade deficits. He's saying that this is an emergency. Harold Hongzhou Koh is a professor at Yale Law School.

It's a persistent problem, not an unusual and extraordinary. threat that has suddenly arisen. The case was brought by small businesses who say the president violated the Constitution with his tariff regime. The lower court rulings all went against the administration. Mike Crowley, CBC News, Washington.

Still in the U.S., voters in New York City have elected a new mayor. He is 34-year-old Zoran Mandami. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a Democratic Socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

It was a landslide win for Mandami, who ends up with more than 50% of the vote by promising, among other things, free city buses, child care, rent freezes, and government-run grocery stores. There were other big wins as well last night for the Democrats right across the year. U.S. campaigns for governor in both Virginia and New Jersey were both won by Democrats, and in California, voters approved Proposition 50. It allows the state to redraw its district maps, which will most likely offset similar congressional changes the Republicans put in place in Texas. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.