The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/05 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/05 at 22:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The Liberals are now just two seats shy of a majority in the House of Commons. That's thanks to Nova Scotia MP Chris Dantremont, who yesterday decided to leave the Conservative Party and cross the floor. I didn't find I was represented there. My ideals of trying to find solutions and help your community

rather than trying to oppose everything that's happening. That's the opportunity that's being offered by Prime Minister Carney. Don Tramau made the move just as the liberal budget was being tabled. He says the liberal fiscal plan is the right path forward for both his riding and the country. Liberal MP Mark Miller says his caucus welcomes Don Tramont and any other conservatives considering a move. It's not about the conservative movement. It's about the individual that leads it. And if those people are tired of them, then they know how I've been failing for the last few years.

Some conservative MPs are coming. coming down hard on Dantramal, calling his decision a betrayal. Ottawa has announced a dramatic cut to temporary immigration over the next three years. Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's about stabilizing the numbers. Some argue it's really about polling numbers. Rafi Bujicanian has more. We have to take into account the pressures that are facing the society right now. Peter Fracas Gatos, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Federal Immigration Minister.

Immigration policy in this country must be about economic policy. He says the government had no choice but to act. Starting next year, it's admitting about 43% fewer temporary residents into Canada, some 385,000 next year, and a further reduction of 15,000 for the following two years. Workers are the vast majority of those numbers. Recent polling shows Canadians have been souring on immigration, linking rising numbers to lack of housing and affordability. In a survey last month by the Environmentics Institute, some 15,

56% said the country lets in too many immigrants. The big unknown, how provinces and territories might react to the cuts as they wait to see the impact on worker allocations to their jurisdictions. Rafi Bougiqan, on CBC News, Ottawa. The Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. is reducing air traffic by 10% in 40 markets. The FAA says cutting flights in high-volume markets is intended to maintain safety during the government's shutdown.

There have been staffing short. as air traffic controllers work without pay. The FAA says as many as 40% are not showing up for their shifts at some of the largest airports. The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a look at Donald Trump's trade policy. It heard arguments today on the legality of the president's sweeping international trade tariffs. And as Paul Hunter reports, even some of the conservative justices seemed skeptical of their legality.

Those challenging the tariffs worry the Supreme Court with its Three Trump appointees and conservative majority will ultimately side with the president on this. At the hearing, two of Trump's appointees seem to hint they might be leaning the other way. Amy Coney Barrett, for example, seemed to challenge Trump lawyers who'd argued a U.S. statute allows presidents to regulate imports at times of emergency, including with tariffs, said Coney Barrett on that. Can you point to any other place in the code or any other time in history where that phrase together regulate importation has been used to confer tariff imposing authority? Liberal justices pushed back on Trump's tariffs repeatedly, but it was the questions from some of the conservative justices that left tariff opponents optimistic. Trump has labeled the case, quote, literally life or death for this country. A ruling may come before the end of the year.

Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. The NHL, Alex Ovechkin, has reached a new hockey milestone. The captain of the Washington Capitals just scored 900 goals in the National Hockey League, the first NHL player to achieve that milestone. It came tonight during a game against St. Louis. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.