The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 06:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Ottawa and the Mark Carney liberals. They have survived their first parliamentary test, a confidence vote on their budget, and the majority and the minority government still stands.

Marina Van Stockerberg reports. In a razor-thin vote, Mark Carney's minority government has narrowly passed its first budget and thwarted a winter snap election. In the end, 170 MPs voted for it and 168 voted against. But it was four MPs who did not vote at all that tipped the scales. That included two new Democrats. The NDP maintains it does not agree with Carney's plan. But BCMP Gorge Johns says he decided to abstain after speaking with leaders in his riding.

We're being the adult in the room listening to our constituents who said right now is not the time to have an election. The budget includes $1 billion for Arctic infrastructure and a university in Nunavut. The other two abstentions came from the conservatives. Shannon Stubbs, who the party says is off on medical leave, and Matt Jenneroo, who announced earlier this month he was quitting this spring. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Still with the liberal budget, it highlights a plan that will see Transport Canada surrender most of its aviation wing to the Defense Department. But it turns out that plan is shrouded in secrecy. Murray Brewster explains.

Let's be frank. The reason this is happening is to increase the percentage of gross domestic product that Canada spends on defense. Arctic defense expert Michael Byers about why Transport Canada's aviation fleet is being folded into national defense. How do you fulfill those essential civilian functions that the Coast Guard and Transport Canada fulfill? Since it was tabled in the budget, CBC News has asked both Transport Canada and the Finance Department about the implications. They've refused to explain, saying information will be released in due course. Transport Canada has 52 aircraft with a strictly civilian function. The merger of Transport Canada's aviation wing with

D&D is likely to be even more complicated, especially given that the department recently accepted delivery of an Israeli-made drone for Arctic surveillance, a capability the Air Force won't have for a few years. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada is welcoming the Swedish royal family today for a three-day state visit. King Carl Gustav and Queen Sylvia's first trip to Canada in nearly 20 years will take them to Ottawa and Montreal. And their delegation will include senior government ministers and dozens of officials from the Swedish companies. The United Nations Security Council is backing

Donald Trump's plan for the rebuilding of Gaza. The blueprint put forward by the U.S. President paves the way for a possible sovereign Palestinian state. And not everyone's on board. Tom Perry reports. Both Russia and China have pointed out their remain big questions around Trump's plan for a board of peace with him as chair to oversee a transitional government in Gaza and around Trump's proposal for an international stabilization force to work with Palestinian police to provide security in the territory. Hamas, which still controls Gaza, is supposed to disarm under the peace plan and play no role in any future government. The group has rejected the UN resolution and its calls for an international force

to patrol the territory. Israel, meanwhile, has raised concerns about the resolution's mention of a potential pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. With Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeating his government's position, it stands firmly against any plan to establish a Palestinian state. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.