CBC News: The National | Canadians cancel U.S. trips over Trump threats

[Music] tonight Airlines brace for a Slowdown as Canadians cancel trips to the US the trust is gone why would a Canadian want to go to the United States right now the Tariff backlash already being felt South of the Border we're about 40% less over last year and the calls for a patriotic display for Flag Day Donald Trump threatens another Auto tariff we're going to do it on April second car makers Scramble for backup plans how much more a new car could cost you and the US vice president scolds European leaders on their home turf in Washington there is a new sheriff in town reaction from inside the stunned room from CBC News this is the national with Erica Johnson thanks for joining us this time of year many Canadians are preparing to head south but tonight there are signs of a boycott Brewing tariff threats spurring Canadians to fight back with their wallets travel agents say an increasing number of clients are cancelling us trips and booking vacations elsewhere WestJet has already seen a 25% drop in passengers flying to the states and Air Canada is reducing some flights it makes to popular March break destinations anticipating a drop as Magna gabra salasi shows us some Canadian Travelers are even willing to take a financial hit in the name of patriotism we're not going to America we're not spending our money there it's Canada first baby on social media Canadians are loud and proud about boycotting trips to the US lights accommodation Michelle Porter is among them she had a Florida trip for herself and six family members all booked but Donald Trump's tariff threats changed everything I just cancelled it cancelled a two- week vacation including flights accommodations and Disney World tickets thanks to Insurance she got most of her money back but she lost about $1,300 us and says she has no regrets as Canadians that we you know we need to stick together and as unity and I raise my children to feel the same and be proud Canadian for Canadians the US has long been a popular destination according to the US Travel Association visitors from Canada to the list last year with more than 20 million visits it warns that just a 10% dip in these trips could mean a loss of $2.1 billion WestJet has already seen a 25% drop for US Travel since Donald Trump's tariff threat come March Air Canada will reduce its capacity for some flights South of the Border travel agencies are adjusting to we've looked at our numbers and we're about 40% less over last year 40% less bookings to the US for leisure travel he says customers are also questioning flying with US Airlines at all that's true of this Canadian couple now selling their property in California when when we go down there to finalize the sale we'll be flying out of Toronto on a Canadian Airline that's not necessarily cheaper for us but I'm intentionally avoiding anything I can that's going to put money in the pockets of that system I guess and even if the tariffs never materialize I will not go to the United States while Donald Trump is in power and Erica it is not just Michelle Porter a survey released this week found nearly half of Canadian Travelers were less likely to visit the US okay of course MAA this is part of a broader movement among Canadians yeah from choosing Canadian groceries to pouring California wine down the drain to booing the American national anthem since Trump announced that 25% tariff Canadians are looking for ways to voice their displeasure with the US Administration and tomorrow we may see another display of patriotism with former Prime Ministers and politicians encouraging Canadians to fly a Canadian flag all right thanks for this MAA m gasi in Toronto and it's not just travel and tourism bracing for backlash Canada's Auto industry is also on alert with punishing tariffs looming Nisha Patel now with what they could mean for automakers and buyers buying a car is a big financial decision because there already really expensive and at the Canadian auto show in Toronto tariffs are making that decision more difficult my budget will change if it if tariffs are a significant difference it is frustrating yeah particularly we had a free trade agreement in addition to a possible 25% tariff on all Canadian Imports Donald Trump is threatening another 25% on steel and aluminum if they go ahead the costs would be passed on it is a tax it is borne by the consumer it's born by businesses you'd see a new vehicle price go up by as much as $6,000 with the auto industry's supply chain so deeply interconnected counter tariffs from Canada could quickly lead to factory shutdowns if you go down that path uh into a tit fortat um tariff situation the ability for Canada to maintain that for an extended period of time is is very difficult North American automakers like Ford and GM say they're making contingency plans but it's tough to plan when the US president keeps shifting gears now Trump is threatening yet another Auto tariff but gave few details maybe around April 2nd we're going to do it on April 2nd and earlier this week more threats in an interview with Fox News if we don't make a deal with Canada we're going to put a big tariff on cars could be a 50 or 100% because we don't want that cars we want to make the cars in Detroit tariffs are a key part of Trump's economic plan they can raise revenue to pay for his promised tax cuts but experts say that could come at a cost for us companies we saw during the last round of tariffs from the first Trump Administration that the net losses to Industry far exceeded any of the gains car buyers here are just trying to make sense of it all hopefully something gets worked out where that's not an issue one positive is that new vehicle inventories are returning to normal so there's a supply of cars already in Canada that may not face price pressures from tariffs Nisha Patel CBC News Toronto the US justice department has moved to drop a high-profile bribery and Corruption case against New York mayor Eric Adams and as Chris Reyes explains it comes after seven Federal prosecutors resigned in protest some accusing the Trump administration of trading leniency for political favors he felt like it's an unlikely pair New York City's Democratic mayor side by-side president Trump's borders are we need to get dangerous people off our street and now I have someone that understands that narrative and we are fighting together to get it done it's a partnership that's being called into question now that the Department of Justice has formally asked a judge to dismiss a corruption case against Eric Adams last September Adams was indicted on bri Li related charges I absolutely never traded my power as an elected official for any personal benefit the move to end the prosecution came after a dramatic showdown between the Trump Administration and prosecutors that saw at least seven of them resign and protest it began earlier this week when Emil bouet the acting Deputy attorney general and former Trump attorney directed prosecutors to drop the case calling the charges politic Ally motivated and saying it prevented the mayor from devoting full attention to New York's illegal immigration problem a trump political priority it's pretty close to corrupt and not in the sense that money's changing hands but that the government the federal government is proposing to either bring in a criminal case or not bring a case depending on whether or not a local public official goes along with Federal policies the memo prompted the mass resignation of prosecutors among them Republicans who wrote scathing letters accusing the Department of Justice of soliciting favors from Adams on behalf of the US president it's a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adam's opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters would dismissal of a criminal indictment said Danielle Sassoon and from Haggen scotton the lead prosecutor this I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion but it was never going to be me Adams denied his attorney would ever propose such a tradeoff imagine him going inside saying that the only way U mayor Adams is going to assist in Immigration which I was calling for for since 2022 is if you drop the charges that's quit Pro that's a crime it's one of those things if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck if it looks like a deal and it quacks like a deal it sure feels like one whether or not there is a formal deal you know what makes this request so dramatic and really with little precedent is that B made it clear that this decision was made without even assessing the strength of the case also notable is that the memo leaves room to revive the case and that means these charges remain hanging over the mayor's head really at the behest of the Trump Administration and Chris in theory the case isn't dismissed at least not yet that's right only the judge uh can really dismiss this case Erica and while there's little he can do to keep it alive he can call b or other Trump Justice Department officials before the court to explain themselves all right thanks for this Chris at a security conference in Munich European officials awaited details on Washington's plan to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine but Chris Brown shows us US vice president JD Vance addressed the crowd with a different concern what he called the Enemy Within well uh good afternoon everybody visiting the Munich security conference JD Vance's hosts wanted the US vice president to underscore American determination to pressure Vladimir Putin to end his war on Ukraine instead Vance lectured them the threat that I worry the most about vvv Europe is not Russia it's not China it's not any other external actor and what I worry about is the threat from within a stunned room listened as Vance berated his hosts Germany for allegedly silencing voices on the far right ahead of a key election Germany's defense minister was livid he compared conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes said Boris Pistorius ladies and gentlemen that is unacceptable Vance's lecture capped a week of dramatic and conflicting pronouncements from Donald Trump and his top officials on European security Ukraine's Vladimir zalinski affirmed he won't let Trump and Putin talk over his head I will meet with Russians with only one Russian guy with Putin only after we will have common plan with Trump Europe and we will sit with Putin and stop the war well not in Munich Vladimir Putin may still have sent a message about his willingness to compromise overnight Ukraine says a Russian drone smashed into one of the most dangerous places in Europe the Dome covering the sealed Chernobyl nuclear plant causing damage but no radiation leak senior Trump officials have been pounding home the message that the US now has higher security concerns than Europe leaving ukrainians to worry that Trump may want a fast peace deal and not necessarily one that's good for them Vance's scolding won't help ease those concerns Chris Brown CBC News London new details tonight on what may have caused last month's deadly midair Collision in Washington investigators now say the helicopter crew that slammed into a passenger plane may not have heard a key instruction from Air Traffic Control the portion of the transmission that stated pass behind the may not have been received by the Blackhawk crew Air Traffic Control told the chopper to pass behind the plane but the crew likely missed it it was also flying higher than expected possibly due to faulty data 67 people were killed making it the deadliest us Aviation disaster in decades conservative MPS met in Ottawa today for the first time since December but they returned to a much different political landscape as Olivia stefanovich reports between sliding poll numbers and Donald Trump conservatives are looking for new ways to appeal to voters what do you think of how the government is handling the Donald Trump tariff issue conservatives weren't revealing much heading into their concus meeting when it came to the US president how would a conservative government handle things differently have no but there was one person they did want to talk about we've been consistently concerned about carbon tax Carney's failure to provide any transparency to Canadians I just want to address Mark herne's comments where he was downplaying the opioid crisis Mark Carney is considered the front runner in the liberal leadership race and the conservatives are responding with ads like these Trump wants our jobs we are going to take other country's jobs and Mark Carney is just the man to help him while the Liberals fight back trying to frame the conservative leader As Trump of the north I plan to cut foreign aid more a foreign aid freeze a forign Aid freeze isn't that there's no doubt in my mind that conservatives and Mr PV have a trump problem and that is because a sizable portion of conservative supporters like Mr Trump agree with a lot of his policies this pollster says the conservatives still have a considerable lead but it's narrowing Minds have opened up post Trudeau quitting and now Trump kind of being in people's uh Focus that has given the Liberals I think a new opportunity to persuade Canadians that they deserve another shot in office thank you all so much for the incredible work you're doing I know the outgoing prime minister is trying to stand up to Trump uh we're uh standing up strong we're pushing back and with a new show of patriotism a giant Canadian flag skated down the redo Canal for the 60th anniversary of the maple leaf right in front of the convention center where the conservatives plan to hold a rally Saturday to promote National Pride Olivia stepanovich CBC News Ottawa the federal tax holiday is coming to an end Saturday is your last chance to save on items like wine groceries and diapers the measure was meant to ease the cost of living and boost business but as anise hadari explains it may not have been worth the effort there are mixed reviews out there about just how much a GST cut changed anyone's shopping habits no no not really he's not like oh now I can go for a you know a vacation if I did add it up the numbers it would show up but really terms of behavior or buying it had no bearing the biggest difference has definitely been at restaurants I'm more encouraged to go out to restaurants restaurants like this one agree I think it was a much needed relief when they saw their bill they were very excited to see that tax break reflect on their bill industry leaders want the cut to stay to help a sector they say is struggling this is actually working and stimulating the economy and providing Canadians with the relief that they needed to be able to treat themselves on a day-to-day or week- toe basis but the reviews aren't as hot in other sectors one of Canada's largest payment processors said they saw fewer card transactions in the first month of the GST cut compared to the year before with Monas suggesting the tax break didn't boost Sal something predicted by many economists you called this a nightmare several months ago has the dream come true main government managed to use several billion dollars in one of the worst ways I could imagine so I suppose so the GST cut was projected to cost 1.6 billion doll we knew that this was going to be an expensive policy with the general idea that it would make people feel like life was more affordable uh I think that at a fundamental level that hasn't shifted you get to on top of that reta ERS like this one agree this tax break didn't seem to drive spending I think it was just was such a nonstarter I think we didn't feel that it was fantastic or like terrible it just didn't really do anything so by Sunday say goodbye to the tax cut that just didn't cut it for everyone andori CBC News Calgary a slow moving winter storm that buried Ontario and Quebec earlier this week is making a mess of Atlantic Canada winter storm warnings are in effect for most of the East Coast where as much as 55 cm of snow is forecast for parts of New Finland and Labrador in central Canada the cleanup continues in advance of another storm expected to bring up to 25 cmers of snow beginning Saturday morning fear of deep water sabotage is driving NATO to ramp up Patrols in the Baltic Sea our operational area covers this part of the Finnish culf rer Stewart hits the Open Water with a crew looking for threats plus as Canadians look to buy local some are trying to make shopping trips a little easier we thought we had to find a way to centralize all this information the new apps aimed at helping you buy Canadian and later on the eve of Flag Day a love letter to the maple leaf we will all celebrate your gift to us from coast to coast to blessed Coast a veteran's Moving And Timely tribute we're back in [Music] two right now a lot of Canadians are trying to do whatever they can to support local businesses now a number of new apps are cropping up to make that a little easier Vanessa Le shows us how they work with a threat of tariff looming Canadians are doubling down on buying local we see this one is very Canadian with these montrealers have created an app to make it easier for Shoppers to identify Canadian products we saw on social media a lot of different uh lists of products being shared they were not always uh correct so we thought we had to find a way to centralize all this information by Beaver is Community Driven where ring on users to comment rate and share information you can scan the barcode then it will rate the product as either Canadian or not on a scale of 1 to five and it will rate it based on where it's made where the ingredients and the materials are from and finally who owns the brand or the company similar apps have launched overnight with a common cause and uh we've got a couple of ratings there panut butter made in Toronto the shop Canadian app already has more than 100,000 downloads about a week ago and we were in our kitchen and I was trying to figure out if what I was eating was Canadian um and I had to jump through several Hoops to try and figure out what I was eating um and eventually I came up with the idea it also leans on crowd sourcing half of the 100,000 products in its database have been reviewed but it's cool to see that we're making a difference I mean in our wildest dreams we were hoping to keep a couple hundred doar in Canada with the traction we've gained and you know the people using our app we're able to do a little bit more the by Canadian sentiment is having an impact on bottom lines family-owned Chapman's Ice Cream says it has seen a bump in sales I would say yeah maybe 10% so yeah very significant especially for January which is typically the lowest sales month of the year the creators of the apps know they're not perfect and say they're working around the clock to ensure the information is accurate a labor of love for their country Vanessa Lee CB news Montreal in a Muslim American community in the US anger at Democrats over the war in Gaza helped Propel Donald Trump to the White House our vote was to end the killing of hundreds possibly thousands of people per day Chris Reyes returns to Dearborn Michigan to see how voters are feeling now and in ganza the war has reduced schools and universities to Rubble it is one of the most sad days in my life the professor trying to salvage what's left in the ruins plus Donald Trump has frozen the country's largest Aid organization and the move could have big implications could it make the world less stable the national breaks down the story shaping our world next NATO is stepping up Patrols in the Baltic Sea after recent incidents of suspected Russian sabotage our Brier Stewart went aboard an Estonian ship monitoring for any threats on critical undersea infrastructure on the roing Baltic Sea Estonia has stepped up patrols monitoring ships passing through this busy Corridor our operational area covers this part of the Finnish the Navy is looking for anything that might seem out of place or is suspicious not adhering to the Sea liines of communications uh also changing the speed not having their anchors where they should be Estonia and others are on alert NATO has even dispatched extra frigs and Naval drones because of what's been happening below the surface and the possibility that it could be Savage over a 5we period last year there were three separate incidents of undersea cables being damaged in the area on December 25th the power line connecting Estonia and Finland was severed along with four internet cables experts say that every year there are between 150 and 200 cases of cables being damaged the damage can happen because of anchors commercial fishing or even underwater landslides but in these cases some suspected Russia and its shadow Fleet of ships which skirt International sanctions of playing a role after the cables were severed in December Finland seized a tanker carrying Russian oil this anchor was later found which officials said had been dragged 100 kilometers estonia's Navy told CBC news that it's now seeing more older tankers with inexperienced Crews but even still officials have a hard time accepting that the anchor drag was accidental I don't believe that you cannot notice the anchor dragging for a such a long distances Russia called the accusations that it sabotaged the cables ridiculous but investigations are ongoing estonia's Navy says it hasn't seen any incident since it launched more patrols and vows to keep monitoring the sea rer Stewart CBC news near the Gulf of Finland now it's time to dig deeper into the stories shaping our world as the Israel Hamas ceasefire hangs in the balance gazin return to the places they lived and worked my God tonight a professor takes a CBC freelancer to the ruins of his university it is a really a crime I am very very very sad what he found amid the rubble of the classrooms but first Arab American voters in Michigan helped Propel Trump to the White House Then Trump announced his Gaza plan were you hurt by it did you take it personally 100% of course and I I'm going to fight that if that's the plan so do they regret their choice cbc's Chris Rance returned to Dearborn Michigan to find out inshallah Harris is going to lose because of us this was Dearborn Michigan just weeks before the presidential election Arab American voters were intent on punishing the Biden Administration over the war in Gaza there needs to be an accountability for the lives lost they wanted one thing from their vote who's going to stop the bombing of my people a ceasefire came into effect as president Trump took office and then it's right now a demolition site this he dropped his plans for the future of Gaza the US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too we're back in Dearborn we were here last year for about a week talking to voters just before the election this place holds the distinction of being the first Arab majority city in the US huge population here and Trump really made a big play for that community and it worked he won here over Kay Harris by more than 42% of the vote we wanted to come back to talk to the same people that we interviewed to find out what they think of trump now were you hurt by it did you take it personally 100% of course of course yeah I don't accept that and I I'm going to fight that if that's the plan I it's it's Samra lukan voted for Trump convinced he was the best option to stop the death and destruction in Gaza even if theoretically Trump was to incentivize Palestinians to leave razza he did not say he would do it with violence he did not say he was going to kill every child that remained on that land which is what the Democrats were allowing to happen I think but now she's nervous after Trump says he might cancel the ceasefire if Israeli hostages don't come home all bets are off and uh let hell break out we didn't stop a genocide only to have it continue under under a different Administration that's not what the goal was a new dilemma for this Dearborn Community rocked so deeply by the war at this local restaurant owner Sam hammood who voted for a third party candidate is hearing a lot of blame they held Dearborn de Bor he responsible for what Trump is doing what's your answer to those people who say look what you did where was your voice when all this was going on how come you guys didn't come out say hey what's going on in the Middle East needs to stop our vote was to end the killing of hundreds possibly thousands of people per day and we achieved that we have a ceasefire under Trump and I don't regret that hello salam alaikum you guys are registered voters do go vote when we first met local activist Farah Khan she was campaigning against Kamala Harris and voted for Jill Stein nice to see you again to now she's planning her next move we are going to get together and organize against Trump as well as just as powerful as we did for the uh Biden Harris Administration do you regret campaigning for a third party candidate that that likely helped with Trump's Victory no not one bit what actually just happened in the past elections it should be a learning curve for for the politicians as well you know they should know that you can no longer fool the People by your video empty rhetoric with your false promises over and over again the voters we talked to told us it was never about Trump we are not married to the Republican party we are not married to the Democratic party as a voter block American Muslims and Arabs are going to be voting with Gaza in mind we are not going anywhere we are here you know what was made really clear to us in the time that we spent in Dearborn is that arab-american voters are watching this unpredictable president closely and if he moves ahead with any of his Gaza plans they're ready to use their mobilizing power against him and as you heard in the piece they're not not loyal to Trump only to the Palestinian cause okay Chris has the Trump Administration made any effort to reach out to the Arab American Community following his comments you know Erica if they have it hasn't been done in a public way certainly not in the way that Trump courted their vote during the election when he visited Dearborn and there were plenty of photo ops now Samra the one voter that we talked to who met with Trump last year says that his team hasn't reached out to her or any of her fellow community members but remember with such a strong mandate Trump doesn't need to court any new votes right now until midterms okay thanks Chris Chris Reyes in New York tonight now in Gaza many are returning to shattered homes and schools including a former professor as Chris Brown tells us amidst the rubble he found Hope for the next [Music] chapter Israel's pounding attacks on Gaza didn't just obliterate homes they erased the cultural institutions at the center of Palestinian Society such as the Alazar University in Gaza City where 16,000 undergraduates once studied I am going now back also to the library which has completely burn it to see whether I can find some vks to rescue them Muhammad hatab a biochemist with a PhD taught at Alazar for 30 years now almost 80 and homeless he took a videographer in Gaza back to the campus my God only to find spent Israeli mortar rounds where his science building once stood do they think that we are wild animals as natany said we are not wild animals they are the wild animals because they destroy everything Israeli commanders said they found Hamas tunnels under the campus explaining why so much was destroyed in selfies some Israeli soldiers mocked the destruction others shot video of them using the university as their own military base look here inside the only structure standing kab found Hebrew graffiti about Israeli sports teams my God my God what is this here mixed in with the debris was a young woman report card philosophy 88 excellent excellent marks they have simply thrown it the different kinds of books in another room someone else had already started stacking the books that could be salvaged what kind of mentality for this soldiers who have done this crime it is a really a crime I am very very very sad it is one of the most uh sad days in my life everything is last spring a un panel suggested Israel's actions could be a deliberate attempt to inflict what it called scolastici the intentional destruction of the education system Donald Trump has said his day after plan for Gaza involves not having Palestinians living here effectively expulsion butab says that will never happen we the Palestinian people are determined to still alive in our country and we will never leave it never book by book atab says Gaza will be restored coming up Donald Trump shut down billions in foreign aid and the impact could be devastating for those counting on it around the globe it's catastrophic it was immediate and it will affect the lives of millions of people we break down the global Fallout [Music] [Music] next Trump effectively shuttered US foreign aid programs the reason us ID is going to cease to exist as it did before is because it should the courts are are now pushing back but the move is a clear Retreat from soft power diplomacy like foreign aid and Canada may take a similar course I will be bringing our money home with massive cuts to these wasteful and corrupt foreign aid grants and that shift could have major implications for World stability Kate Higgins is the CEO of cooperation Canada representing 100 humanitarian agencies she's in Ottawa and in Washington Noam anger who's with the center for strategic and International Studies Kate the freeze was so sudden how has it already played out on the ground well you're right it was abrupt and it was sudden and the impacts are really catastrophic um what we're seeing is that children who do not have access to essential food we are seeing health clinics shut down immediately we're seeing women and children without protection um concretely what does this look like we know in Nigeria there are mountain Irish children that don't have access to essential food we know that in South Sudan doctors needed to stop working with children in need we know that in Syria there are clinics uh that were supporting women escaping violence that have had to close down we know that there are warehouses with essential medicines essential food Aid that are just spoiling so so it's catastrophic it was immediate and it will affect the lives of millions of people The Fallout has begun I want to show you a video that we got from Oxfam one of the agencies you represent Kate about a food program in Lebanon right now we're our o partner AO who are preparing over 760 meals these meals are going to be distributed to eight shelters around tripa in this room is the place where we are preparing where the team is preparing the food here is the kitchen where the food is being cooked and everything prepared to go out to the packing section to ensure that the meals are equally set and uh distributed so Kate what is the impact of losing a program like that well the impact is that people who are relying on essential services like food like Health Care do not have access to those communities that are really at facing the brunt of desperate humanitarian situations no longer have access to basic Services basic food basic health care so the impact is devastating um for those communities that are so deeply affected no one Beyond these tangible benefits to providing foreign aid you say the cuts make the world less stable yes I mean the to Kate's point the cuts have been very sudden and there are responsible ways to reform and what we're seeing so far from this effort is it seems to be a barely veiled attempt to eviscerate foreign aid and US foreign assistance actually has a lot of geopolitical implications around the world so for example our relationships with the communities and the countries that US foreign assistant serves will be directly affected by the current uh cessation or lengthy pause in assistance delivery uh and that will affect those relationships for a long time to come but it will also create a gap into which US adversaries would be all too happy to fill so China Russia moving into spaces turning and pointing towards the US and saying this is how unreliable the US is as a partner work with us instead that will have major implications for US foreign policy and additionally much of foreign assistance is actually focused on stemming transnational concerns some of that has to do with the spread of disease we want disease surveillance around the world so that we can catch outbreaks before they spread and pandemics do not recognize political borders we're fooling ourselves if we think that they can and additionally foreign assistance also is focused on stemming uh violent conflict that uh prompts a lot of population displacement so migration issues as well as corruption and crime trafficking and people and drugs all of this will be affected by the foreign assistance free okay and Kate this week conservative leader Pierre POV also said he would slash this country's foreign aid I will be bringing our money home with massive cuts to these wasteful and corrupt foreign aid grants is this part of a wider shift in How the West interacts in the world well we've just heard the uh really important humanitarian value of of foreign aid as well as the powerful strategic value of foreign aid uh foreign aid makes the world safer foreign aid builds markets for countries to grow but also markets for Canadian businesses to access foreign aid makes the world safer and more secure by combating terrorism for example so I I think there are there are really important humanitarian reasons to continue foreign aid but also really important strategic reasons to continue foreign aid it's the right thing to do but it is also in countries like Canada's national interest and Noom you also think these Cuts could have an impact on the relationships that the US has with allies the relationship with Canada is already being tested with the potential of tariffs how do these foreign aid Cuts further weaken that us uh contributions to foreign assistance globally uh provides often a foundation for international Partnerships and so Canada and other allies often join together in programs or some of the multilateral institutions but a lot of that has the US contribution at its core and if it is yanked away in such a a dramatic fashion as has happened just recently then many the assistant from many other countries and a lot of programs can founder not just those of usaid for example all right well something we will be watching very closely as I'm sure both of you are as well Kate Higgins noer thanks for your time thank you thank you here's another story we're working on Canada's cyber security Center 's work is cloaked in secrecy but now it wants to get out a very public warning about the threats Canadians are facing Ian sat down with the head of the agency Rajiv Gupta misinformation is critical everyone's got a megaphone now that's able to put out a false narrative and then you can now you know justify or substantiate false narratives with synthetic content through Ai and other sorts of means like that so um it's a challenge for all countries around the world and in the space of an election we know that nation states use information operations as part of their apparatus we hear a lot about the five eyes and the intelligence sharing between Canada the UK Australia New Zealand and the United States but these are tumultuous times in the United States and we've seen it certainly on the trade front what kind of impact has the new administration had and all the changes had on on intelligence gathering yeah like all Canadians you know we're we're watching the news and seeing what the changes are but from our perspective in terms of our interactions you know we go back 75 80 years of history in terms of working with the five eyes working with the us and our other partners and so far you know all good we're unaffected and we'll continue that like to think that cyber security is a nonpartisan issue you can watch Ian's full interview with Rajiv Gupta this Sunday right here on the national next a Canadian veteran writes a letter to the flag the deafening cheers on Parliament Hill that day gave me goosebumps his heartfelt tribute in Our [Music] Moment 60 years ago on February 15th the Canadian flag as we know it today was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill and this is retired major Bruce stock the London Ontario veteran was on duty that day now as the flag turned 60 and Donald Trump challenges Canada's nationhood Bruce is paying tribute in the form of a letter to the flag and tonight his patriotic gesture is our moment my dear flag I know I know it's really unusual for someone to write their flag not only is it your 60th birthday or diamond anniversary which everyone agrees as a landmark but I was there when you were born the M Lea is attached to the haard the stening cheers on Parliament Hill that day gave me Goose bugs you are now widely accepted as one of the most welcome symbols of democracy anywhere on the planet and you are fully embraced by those at home and millions of newcomers without you dear flag Canada wouldn't exist and during the next few years come every February the 15th we will all celebrate your gift to us from coast to coast to blessed Coast Respectfully yours Bruce stalk viie branch number 145 London Ontario and that is just an excerpt of Bruce's letter to the flag now the flag may be 60 years old but national flag day is just 29 years old uh Jean cren declared national flag day back in 1996 to instill a sense of patriotism and I'm sure tomorrow we're going to see a lot of flags from coast to coast to coast from all of us at the national thank you for being with us you can watch anywhere anytime on the free CBC News app And subscribe to the National's YouTube channel I'm Erica Johnson in Vancouver take care

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