Your World Tonight - One economy bill, evacuee frustration, Trump v Musk, and more

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

<p>One Canadian Economy – not just a bill tabled today in the House of Commons, but a cornerstone of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s policy approach.</p><p><br></p><p>Carney invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 in Alberta later this month. The relationship between the two countries has been strained for several years. The RCMP has detailed allegations accusing agents of the Indian government of playing a role in widespread violence in Canada, including homicides.</p><p><br></p><p>And: Saskatchewan’s premier Scott Moe says two people have been charged with setting fires in the province. It’s not clear how large those fires got. But what is clear: thousands of people are out of their homes, waiting to find out for how long. And some are getting frustrated with the services available and the process to get them.</p><p><br></p><p>Also: After the heated words of a nasty breakup – came the silence. But their spectacular public blow out yesterday still has the world wondering – what happens next as two of the world’s most powerful and erratic men square off?</p><p><br></p><p>Plus: Russia strikes Ukraine, school boards urged to buy Canadian, and more.</p>

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This is a CBC Podcast. We can build big, build bold, build now, build one Canadian economy. Putting the bill in nation building. New legislation, Prime Minister Mark Carney says, will kickstart the Canadian economy by speeding up the approval process for big projects and making it easier to trade between provinces, as doing business with the United States gets more complicated. It's baby steps when we needed a giant leap.

There's early criticism but no commitment to vote against the bill with conservatives saying the liberal effort to build big falls short. Welcome to Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Scanderis. It's Friday June 6th just before 6pm Eastern. Also on the podcast. This is a complete betrayal of the Sikh Canadian community as well as Canadian values. Inviting controversy.

The Prime Minister of India will be Canada's guest at a high-level summit in Alberta. A move Mark Carney says is needed to improve relations with an economic superpower, even as the Indian government stands accused of involvement in the murder of a Canadian citizen. He made it the cornerstone of the campaign that got him elected. Now Mark Carney wants to make his plan to build and bolster the Canadian economy into law, looking for support for

new legislation to fast track infrastructure and boost internal trade. Kate McKenna has more on the bill and the help the Prime Minister needs to get it passed. Today is an important day for Canada. And it's a day that has literally been decades in the making. Prime Minister Mark Carney hasn't shied away from setting sky-high expectations. Today was no different as his government introduced one of its first marquee pieces of legislation. A bill that meets this hinge moment with the urgency and determination it requires. First pitched during the election as a way to fight back against the economic carnage

of Donald Trump's tariffs, Bill C-5 seeks to remove some federal barriers to inter-provincial trade and make it easier to get nation-building projects off the ground. In recent decades, it's become too difficult to build in this country. The bill would streamline and speed up the approval process for some projects, including mines, ports and pipelines, identified by the government as being in the national interest. It lays out criteria to meet that bar, from strengthening Canada's security and economy, to advancing the interests of Indigenous peoples and helping hit Canada's climate goals.

It is a top priority for this government and we will do everything to get it passed before the summer and Parliament needs to sit longer, it should sit longer in order to get it passed. So far, premiers like Quebec's Francois Legault and Manitoba's Wab Kanu like what they see. I like very much when we see we will accelerate the start of projects, I like that very much. Let's put Manitobans to work and let's use that work to build up this country that we love so much. That's the opportunity that we have right now in Canada and that's the opportunity that we have right now in Manitoba. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nepenac says the AFN doesn't yet have

a formal position on the bill. I hope that they don't ram it through because First Nations and Canadians need time to look through this and how does this affect us? Let's do things properly and carefully. It's baby steps when we needed a giant leap. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev says he'd prefer to see government repeal laws stifling development instead of handpicking projects. But he is not ruling out his party's support. Our test is whether, not whether or not

legislation is perfect, but whether it is better than the way things are. And that's what we will be looking at as we study this newly introduced bill over the next few days. But what this bill can't address is politics. Kearney says big projects need provincial buy-in. Historically consensus on projects like the Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines has been hard to find. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's trade war with the U.S. is having a big effect on the jobless rate.

New data shows unemployment is at 7 percent, up a tenth of a point from April. Manufacturing took one of the biggest hits from Trump's tariffs, losing 12,000 positions. The rate has now increased for three straight months. It's at the highest level since 2016, not including the pandemic. With economic growth sputtering here and worldwide, the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta is an opportunity to strengthen global relations, which Mark Carney says is his reason for extending an invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, despite Modi's government being accused of involvement in the murder of a Canadian on Canadian soil.

Marina von Stackelberg reports. There are certain countries that should be at the table for those discussions. Mark Carney defending his decision to send a last-minute G7 invite to India's prime minister. Carney says it makes sense to invite Narendra Modi. India the fifth largest economy in the world. This will be Modi's first visit since the RCMP accused his government of orchestrating widespread violence on Canadian soil. On the list of allegations, coercion, extortion and murder. That includes the targeted shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijer.

The Sikh activist and Canadian citizen was assassinated in BC two years ago. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly accused India of being behind it. Something that country denies. Four Indian nationals are on trial in Canada. We're a country of the rule of law. The rule of law is under is proceeding as it should in Canada and I am not going to disrupt that process. Carney says he and Modi have agreed to law enforcement dialogue between countries.

So there's been some progress on that recognizes issues of accountability. I extended the invitation to Prime Minister Modi for in that context and he has accepted. So this is a complete betrayal of the sick Canadian community as well as Canadian values. Balpreet Singh, a lawyer with the World Sick Organization, says Canada should not welcome Modi, especially since he says sick Canadians continue to face threats and acts of violence. What I heard from Prime Minister Carney today was that India is too big to be held accountable. That sick lives can be bargained away.

And I also heard that national security, the rule of law, can be traded away for supply chains. It's common for leaders whose countries aren't in the G7 to attend the high-profile meetings. India has been invited since 2019. It's hard not to invite India as the fastest growing large economy in the world. Sanjay Ruparelia is an expert in the changing politics of India. He says the Modi invitation is concerning given the current allegations. But just given the geopolitical trade economic heft of India, trying to reset relations with India is going to be very important. And I think what we have to watch and see is what happens at this meeting.

Modi says the trip marks the beginning of a new relationship with Canada. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Carney has also been reaching out to Beijing. The Prime Minister says he's spoken with Chinese officials in a bid to improve ties between the two nations. China has imposed tariffs on Canadian products like canola oil and seafood in retaliation for levies on Chinese-made electric vehicles,

steel and aluminum. Carney says the talks included those tariffs and the fentanyl crisis and there will be discussions at the ministerial level in the coming weeks. Still ahead, help is hard to come by for many Saskatchewan residents on the run from wildfires and caught up in confusion. Plus, wildfire smoke is drifting across Canada into some of the biggest cities in the country, creating hazardous haze and health risks. We also have the latest on that messy political breakup in the White House. That's all coming up on Your World Tonight.

In Saskatchewan, two people have now been charged with setting wildfires. Premier Scott Moe confirming one of them is linked to the blaze near La Ronge, which has forced thousands of people from their homes. Many, if not virtually all of the fires that we're dealing with in Saskatchewan are, although not intentionally, are human caused. And some of those have been intentionally

human caused. This comes as many evacuees in that province say they are frustrated and frustrated by the fact that they are although not intentionally, are human caused. And some of those have been intentionally human caused. This comes as many evacuees in that province say they are frustrated and confused, struggling to access shelter and support. Alexander Silberman is in Prince Albert, hearing from those looking for help. Are you already registered with the Red Cross? Yes, we are.

Henry Mackenzie is on the phone with the Red Cross Call Center, trying to get hotel rooms for exhausted elders in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. We're just getting a run around, nobody seems to know where we're going and we're going in circles. The Red Cross can't tell him where to go. In Saskatchewan, more than 15,000 people have fled their homes in a little over a week. The Red Cross, responsible for registering many of them. We won't turn people away. Kim McLean is with the organization.

The first few days of these things are always, you know, hectic, crazy, really up and down and all over the place. The Red Cross is working with Saskatchewan First Nations to offer food, shelter and hygiene kits. The province is tasked with helping other evacuees directly. In a Prince Albert evacuation centre run by a First Nation, evacuees share the frustration over provincial assistance, but also gratitude for community groups that have

stepped up to the plate. She wants it like up to here and it's gonna be her first haircut ever. Malachi Linklater and her daughter Briella are in line for haircuts at the center that offers everything from pots of steaming caribou stew to bouncy castles. So home, home away from home. Link Ladder says accessing services from the Red Cross is more challenging. Red Cross is just pretty much register and you're on your own kind of thing. The charity says it's in close contact with indigenous communities to make sure people are getting the right

support catching up to the scale and are getting the right support, catching up to the scale and speed of the fires and the massive demand for help. Alexander Silverman, CBC News, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Several wildfires in Manitoba have merged into one huge fire. It's forcing residents to flee the town of Snow Lake. Premier Wabkanew says it is now the largest fire in the province. The fire near Flintlawn and Sheridan combined actually three of them effectively combined and now we have this huge north of 300,000 hectare fires which is just a massive area so hats off

and our tremendous gratitude to the firefighters. Further west, strong winds in BC have pushed the Kiskatina River fire across the border with Alberta resulting in an evacuation order for the County of Grand Prairie. Officials expect more wind and thunderstorms to worsen fire conditions over the weekend. The smoke drifting east from the prairies is becoming a health concern far from the wildfire flames. Toronto and Montreal have some of the most polluted air in the world tonight with air quality alerts in effect for millions of Canadians. Philipp Lee Shenok reports. We noticed the smell when we arrived. We didn't know what it was but we obviously did notice it.

It's the first visit to the nation's capital for Daniel and Molly Lahan. Expecting pristine Canadian skies, they were surprised by the smoke filling Ottawa's skyline. It's worrying to think that there is smoke coming from wildfires. It's obviously affecting air quality in the city. Laura Cabot is visiting from Whitehorse and is used to seeing wildfire smoke just not in Ottawa. Usually the sky is clear so this was a bit surprising but understandable with all the fires that are happening in the country. You know when you have forest fires you're going to see it in places where the actual burning isn't happening.

Very few people are seeing the flames but millions of people across the country, United States and Europe are smelling the smoke. Dave Phillips is with Environment and Climate Change Canada. He says across the country, alerts are in place as poor air quality caused by smoke from wildfires, prompt health warnings. Six provinces in one territory, special air quality statements as of this morning. And so the advice is for people to stay more indoors, keep the windows closed and the doors closed to wait it out. In some of the most populous areas of the country, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, recording some of the worst air quality levels in the world. The smoke affecting several American states as well.

In Duluth, Minnesota, Jared Granley says it's been a real concern. It has impacted, like, with children being able to go to sports practices, events getting canceled and things like that. Sasha Bernatsky is an epidemiologist who researches the effects of air pollution on the immune system. A lot of the health effects might be related to the particulate matter, the particles, especially the ones that are really small. And they're so small that when you breathe them in, it just doesn't irritate your lungs.

It actually gets into your blood system. But she says that are also concerning links between exposure to wildfire smoke and chronic diseases. Other research shows have shown-term associations with things like cancer and cardiac disease and even diabetes. A growing concern is Environment Canada warns wildfires are getting larger burning closer to populated places and not just during the summer months. Philip Lee Shanok, CBC News, Toronto. More than a thousand people marched along Israel's southern border with Gaza protesting

the war with Hamas. They are calling for an end to the fighting and the return of the remaining hostages. Israel has said it won't let up until Hamas is defeated. Its military says four soldiers were killed today by an explosive device in Khan Yunis. Five others were injured. Aid distribution sites in Gaza closed early. The group behind the hub, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, says the sites were overcrowded, but all aid was handed out. The GHF is backed by the US and Israel and has faced controversy.

Israeli troops are accused of shooting at Palestinians, gathering for food earlier this week. Dozens of people were killed. The IDF denies it opened fire on civilians. At least four people are dead and dozens more injured across Ukraine after Russian strikes involving hundreds of drones and more than 40 missiles. Briar Stewart has more on the destruction and the calls for an end to a deadly conflict. For hours overnight in Kiev, people stayed in shelters and in corridors listening to the unmistakable buzz

of drones and explosions. Other cities across Ukraine were hit too, including Lutsk in the northwest, where officials say a hotel where Ukrainian athletes stay was destroyed. By Friday afternoon, the cleanup was well underway, and in the capital, residents laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for three rescuers who were killed in a strike after responding to an earlier one. We had to remember these guys, said 58-year-old Lyudmila Netchay. Russia will never make a truce. Anyone who wants peace will

always find a compromise and sit down at the negotiating table. In another neighborhood, large black scorch marks on the side of a high-rise building show which apartments were engulfed in flames. Other units were relatively untouched but their windows were blown out by the force of the blast. Helping to repair them is 40-year-old Etienne Rousseau from Sherbrooke, Quebec. Removing glasses, installing a bit of plastic sheets, boarding them up so it's safe for the people who live there. Rousseau, who works as a mechanical engineer, said this is his third trip to Ukraine to volunteer. You feel like you contribute to at least make their life a little better than it was this morning compared like overall in this bad situation. The attack was part of Russia's response to what it called Ukraine's terrorist acts,

including its drone strikes on Russia's military airstrips on Sunday. Today, Ukraine's president again urged Europe and the US to increase its pressure on Russia. But Donald Trump isn't talking like he's about to do that. You know, I gave the analogy yesterday when I spoke to President Putin. Instead, he compared both countries to children fighting. And you try and pull them apart. They don't want to be pulled. Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while

and then pulling them apart. But Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than three years, and Moscow shows no sign of letting up. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. After a day of personal attacks and threats, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are giving each other the silent treatment. The pair largely ignored their messy public fight today,

leaving the world to wonder what's next in the saga of two powerful and unpredictable figures. Paul Hunter has that story from Washington. You know, my first reaction was laughter. Forgive Americans for wondering what on earth is going on here. I just keep thinking like, I can't believe this is real life right now sometimes. I think it's two egos going at it and they'll probably just go at it till God knows what to what end. I mean the odds of actually guessing what's going to come next has never been as weird as now. You know Elon's upset. The weirdness yesterday that spat that

left jaws dropped throughout the US when the world's richest man and the president of the United States Elon Musk Musk and Donald Trump, once seemingly all but inseparable, went after each other in an online battle for the ages. Today, all is suddenly calm. Trump suggesting he and Musk may not speak for a while, but otherwise both sides seemingly taking a breath, at least for now. Good morning Mr. Speaker, so still no phone call with Mr. Musk. On Capitol Hill, Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushing ahead with the so-called big beautiful bill, the giant piece of proposed legislation strongly supported by Trump, publicly trashed by Musk as far too costly,

the apparent spark for their feud. Here's Johnson. I don't think the American people care much about Twitter wars. I think they care about us accomplishing our legislative agenda. I hope they reconcile. I believe in redemption. That's part of my worldview and I think it's good for the party in the country if all that's worked out. Meanwhile, Democrat lawmaker John Fetterman, like so many Americans, still trying to understand what the Musk-Trump meltdown actually means. He's right about that big, beautiful bill. Says Fetterman it's a particular puzzler for Democrats

who'd opposed the work Musk had previously done alongside Trump but now agree with Musk's criticisms of the bill Trump wants to pass. The damage we've been dumping all over Musk and vandalizing Teslas or whatever, and now suddenly now we might be more back into it. We have to decide, you know, where are we thinking about it? Leaving everyone else still wondering, where's it all at for Musk and Trump? One signal in the secured parking lot literally steps from the White House, a bright red Tesla with Florida plates. The one bought by Trump just a few weeks ago in support

of Musk who owns Tesla says the White House it's now up for sale. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. The man the Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador three months ago has been returned to the US to face criminal charges. A grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling. Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The White House insists he's a member of the violent MS-13 gang and also accuses him of smuggling guns and drugs.

Garcia has been held in an El Salvador prison since March. You're listening to Your World Tonight from CBC News. And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Just find the follow button and lock us in. The Canadian and European space agencies are renewing a commitment to their partnership. They say economic and political uncertainty are forcing them to work closely together. Canadian space agency president Lisa Campbell says space infrastructure is key to Canada's sovereignty.

You look at our satellites just above us. They have been essential tools and now power the delivery of many government services, environment, biodiversity, national defense. So increasingly, our capacity to observe the Earth from the sky helps us. Canada and the European Space Agency have been collaborating since the early 1970s.

The end of the school year is right around the corner, but many teachers are already stocking up on supplies for September. And this year there's more pressure to buy Canadian, with concern about an ongoing trade war and classroom budgets stretched thin. Deanna Sumanac-Johnson reports. Quebec science teacher Tasha Osman says the directive from her school board in late February, stating that all school supplies have to be bought from a Quebec supplier with a storefront, made her worried how she'll do her job. So I can't walk into a store and buy a, you know, a liter of certain chemicals or a bucket of frogs for dissection or even some of the parts that we use for mandatory engineering

projects. In an email to CBC News, Quebec government said public bodies must give preference to the purchase of Quebec goods for acquisitions below a certain amount. New rules also restrict purchases from online vendors like Amazon. The reaction to Donald Trump's tariffs has led many provinces and territories to issue similar edicts to their schools, though they vary in stringency. British Columbia has asked school boards to replace U.S. contracts with Canadian or non-American wherever possible. In Ontario, school boards are restricted from buying American products. There's an exception for products where there is no Canadian equivalent,

like software and tech gadgets by Apple and Google. Stephanie Donaldson is the executive director of the Ontario Public School Boards Association. It was good news to us because it's in line with what our members are already doing. In fact, we had been having reach-outs from some of our member boards asking us to advocate for, by Canadian, policies in light of the fact that they'd already been doing it. But there are complications, even if such policies are welcome. School boards have hard enough times stretching the buck to buy everything they need.

Buying Canadian often means more expensive. The ask is nothing that is unreasonable. How we execute that ask is a different story. Mike Wake is the superintendent of the Wetaskoen Regional Public Schools in Alberta. He says he appreciates his provincial government's flexible approach by Canadian where you can because of the complexity of the task ahead. For example, buses like where do school buses conceit 40 plus students in? Where do you get those from, right?

And I know for sure that you would look south of the border potentially for that procurement. But in the meantime, Quebec teacher Tasha Osmond is having to rejig her lesson plans. And looking at which things do we have to cancel. As bi-Canadian movement elbows its way into the school hallways. Deanna Sumanac-Johnson, CBC News, Toronto. We end tonight with one last curtain call. An emotional farewell and the end of a remarkable career on stage. Last night in Toronto, Guillaume Côté, principal dancer with the stage.

Last night in Toronto, Guillaume Coté, principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, took a final bow. After 27 years, the Quebec-born and internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer is retiring. Considered one of the company's greatest artists, Coté joined the National Ballet at age 17 in 1998 and became principal dancer in 2004.

Known for his exceptional athleticism, Coté says at age 43, the art form's physical demands have taken a toll. I guess in dance when you're like, I'm retiring, you know, people are always going, oh, you know, is it because you're aging and this and that and I feel younger than than ever the only thing is my knees I guess if you took you know if you took an x-ray of inside my knee joints that's probably where I show most my age. After nearly three decades with the National Ballet Coté is far from done with dance. He founded his own company, focused on mentoring a new generation of dancers.

This has been Your World Tonight for Friday, June 6th. I'm Stephanie Scanderres. Thank you for listening. [♪ music playing FADES out and out again. [♪ music playing FADES out and out again. [♪ music playing FADES out and out again. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.