The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 21:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Sectors impacted by U.S. tariffs won't be getting any break for the holidays. Prime Minister Carney said Thursday, tariffs could be around until summer. That after the White House revealed its wish list for the future of North American free trade. Olivia Stefanovic has more. We've been clear about our approach to supply management. We continue to stand by that. Prime Minister Mark Carney holding his ground

amid new White House demands to renew the Canada-U-S-Mexico agreement known as Kuzma. U.S. trade representative Jameson Greer issued a series of Kuzma conditions on Canada, including better market access for American dairy products and addressing provincial bans on U.S. alcohol. Let me ask you what you understand Donald Trump's position on Kusma to be right now. In a year-end interview, Karnie told CBN. ABC's chief political correspondent Rosemary Barden, Trump hasn't threatened ending the

trilateral deal. How point did he say the deal is dead? I'm ripping it up. What indications did you get? He did not say, he did not say there's an expectation that Mexico and Canada will have to make adjustments. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. TikTok's owners are in the midst of selling their U.S. operations to American investors. A number of reputable news services have seen. a purported memo from BiteDance's CEO. It says the proposed deal is not yet complete and could be closed by the second half of January. In 2024, Congress passed a law banning TikTok in the U.S.

if it did not find a new owner to replace Chinese-based company Bight Dance. Since his new term began, Donald Trump has extended the deadline to make a TikTok deal four times. Quebec's health minister has resigned. Christian Dubay is leaving his role and the Coalition Avnia Quebec Caucus after hinting that he was upset that Francois Lago, the Premier, backed away from many of his health care reforms. Alexander Silberman has the details. Christian Zubé says he's stepping down as Quebec's health minister and departing from the Coalition Avenir Quebec Caucus. He plans to sit as an independent member in the National Assembly until the end of his mandate. Dubet's resignation announced in a post on social media follows an intense period of negotiations between the provincial government

and doctors. Zubei led an effort to push through controversial reforms, like Bill 2, that would tie a part of physicians' pay to collective performance targets. The change was set to take effect at the start of the new year, but the impact was already being felt across the province when hundreds of Quebec doctors applied for a license in Ontario. The Quebec government and doctors union recently reached a tentative agreement, but Zubay says the difficult negotiations are one of the reasons behind his departure. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Montreal. That's not the only turmoil in Quebec politics, with Pablo Rodriguez announcing his resignation as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. Pressure had been mounting after allegation service that some liberals were paid to vote for him

in last summer's leadership race. The Quebec Liberal Party is bigger than any of us. It has weather storms. It has risen time and time again, and it will rise. again. Today, Rodriguez repeatedly said he'd done nothing illegal or unethical, but he'd said he'd become a distraction at a time when the party needs to concentrate on winning the next election in October. Albertans pushing for province-wide referendums will soon have to shell out 50 times more for the opportunity. The Alberta government has hiked the application fee for new citizen initiatives from $500 to $25,000. The Minister of Justice says petitions are costly, the higher fee being added to discourage, quote, frivolous applications.

The cost will be refundable if the applicant meets the required threshold of signatures and completes reporting requirements. That is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.