Matt Skube, CTV News Dec 18, 2025 PM Carney announced that there’s no relief coming soon for sectoral tariffs. APMA President Flavio Volpe said it is “important for the people in my industry to know is that means you have got to hunker down a little longer.” On the US approach to negotiations, Volpe comments that “we’re starting to see leading macroeconomic indicators” that seem to be pushing the US team to be more “practical” and “based in reality.” Watch here

Anam Khan, BNN Bloomberg Dec 18, 2025 Ford’s $19.5-billion EV write-down highlights the gap between EV ambitions and market reality, helping explain why several major Canadian projects were delayed or cancelled. APMA President Flavio Volpe underscored the commercial limits facing automakers, noting that “these companies are not charities… they’ve got to make a profit to invest into new product and continue to be going concerns.” Read here

Andrew Bell, BNN Bloomberg Dec 17, 2025 The interview focused on the EV slowdown hitting Canadian auto investment as automakers respond to weaker demand and shifting U.S. policy. APMA President Flavio Volpe said that when the Trump administration reversed course on EV subsidies, charging infrastructure, and consumer incentives, it “killed whatever short- to mid-term market potential there was for these vehicles.” Watch here

Ben Mulroney, The Ben Mulroney Show | Global News Dec 17, 2025 President of Canada's Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, Flavio Volpe, speaks about a few topics including the Ford EV announcement and the future of EVs. Volpe comments that “Canadians, just like everybody else, know that the world is electrifying and actually like their hybrid products.” “I expect that we’re going to continue to electrify and Canadian consumers are going to demand hybrid products.” (Fl

Arlene Bynon, The Arlene Bynon Show | Sirius XM Dec 16, 2025 APMA President Flavio Volpe cautions that Canada is growing numb to a more aggressive U.S. posture and rising global instability, urging Canadians to confront reality, strengthen economic resilience, and avoid quick political appeasement that could jeopardize long-term prosperity and peace. He said, “We spent 2025 on our heels. We need to spend 2026 being real with each other other and say, ‘can we really rely on ea

Tom Blackwell, National Post Dec 13, 2025 “For the first time, it appears that the American ambassador’s audience in everything he says publicly is the president,” said Flavio Volpe, president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. “He is very likely making his boss happy, while he makes the rest of us uneasy … He’s not a traditional ambassador. He’s not from central casting.” Read here

Alain McKenna, La Presse Dec 13, 2025 [Original in French] This article responds to a reader’s question. Flavio Volpe, APMA President, clarified that Project Arrow is not destined for production: "I'm not saying that we're going to launch a new car brand, but we're bringing together everything that the Canadian industry does best, in response to the will of the current Prime Minister, who wants to see an independent Canadian economy and automotive industry.” Read here

Antone Gonsalves, Supply Chain Dive Dec 11, 2025 The article on industry submissions to the USTR hearing highlights comments from APMA President Flavio Volpe, who warned that applying Section 232 tariffs to USMCA-compliant goods would raise costs for U.S. manufacturers and undermine the integrated North American platform that supports U.S. automotive competitiveness. Read here

Joe Volpe, Corriere Canadiense Dec 12, 2025 The article reports on Italian Vice Minister Valentino Valentini’s visit to Canada to advance economic ties and promote an innovation-focused “Made in Italy” strategy. Events in Montreal and Toronto brought together political and business leaders, including APMA President Flavio Volpe, who delivered remarks at Queen’s Park alongside several Ontario ministers. Read here

Marco Vigliotti, iPolitics Dec 10, 2025 The article reports on Ambassador Hillman’s resignation and the emerging view that former BlackRock executive Mark Wiseman is the leading candidate to replace her. Flavio Volpe, President of the APMA, said Wiseman’s appointment would signal that Canada is prepared to send “a globally respected deal maker to help form the new trade relationship between the two countries.” Read here

Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star Dec 9, 2025 This article about the Canadian ambassador resigning and quotes APMA President Flavio Volpe as follows: “dignified, thoughtful and skilled chief representative of Team Canada.” Hillman’s resignation comes ahead of next year’s USMCA review for which she was expected to stay for. Read here

Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star Dec 5, 2025 This is reporting on the side meeting held by the three leaders in parallel to the FIFA event. President of the APMA, Flavio Volpe, said it “sounds like a vote of confidence of sorts in the only formal, scheduled stakeholder engagement process of this whole trade war, this week’s USMCA hearings.He also noted that Carney “looked confident in his approach with the president, while acting like a partner on the FIFA project and staging,”

Arlene Bynon, The Arlene Bynon Show | Sirius XM Dec 5, 2025 Flavio Volpe discussing the latest on the Canada-U.S. trade. He describes overall approval of USMCA from industrial America who “say the USMCA works…They’re saying that from a data point of view, there is no data that points to the USMCA being bad. And Americans know that.” (Flavio appears @ 39:06) Listen here

Matt Lundy, Eric Atkins, and Pippa Norman, The Globe and Mail Nov 29, 2025 This article is about how ongoing U.S. tariffs are straining Canadian manufacturers, with auto parts producers facing falling U.S. sales, layoffs and rising costs tied to steel and aluminum duties. Despite USMCA protections on many finished goods, the article shows how parts makers are still being hit through input tariffs and complex compliance rules. Several APMA members describe the direct impact on

Renée Rodgers, CTV National News Dec 4, 2025 Flavio Volpe, President of the Auto Parts Manufacture’s Association, says he used U.S.-based census data to convey Canada’s financial role in the auto industry. Speaking about the various testimonies from American companies, Volpe said there was “an overarching theme that USMCA works for American interests.” Watch here

Joy Malbon, CTV National News Dec 4, 2025 Flavio Volpe commenting about his statement to USTR: “not only are we you’re biggest customers, but we put them into the cars that we make, the cars that Donald Trump has been targeting, are 50% American content as of 2024 up from 38% in 2019.” (Flavio appears @ 10:28) Watch here

Angie Seth, CBC Morning Live | CBC News Dec 4, 2025 In this interview, Flavio Volpe discusses the upcoming USTR review and his thoughts on tariffs and trade with the U.S. He argues that maintaining the multilateral deal is vitally important, saying that “there’s 120 factories with billions of dollars of capital at risk for Canadian headquartered companies that would not benefit from having cut off Mexico.” Watch here

Joanna Smith, The Logic Dec 3, 2025 “Flavio Volpe, president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, argued in his submission that the U.S. is less competitive when going it alone. ‘As China continues to invest in electric vehicle production, battery supply chains and advanced manufacturing, a fragmented North American market risks falling behind and ceding its leading position.’" Read here

Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail Dec 3, 2025 On his upcoming USTR appearance Flavio Volpe quoted saying that “Canada should expect threats to withdraw from Mr. Trump ‘but work through it without being alarmed.’” Volpe stresses the mutually beneficial trading relationship between Canada and the U.S. saying that “no country buys more U.S.-built vehicles and parts than Canada.” Read here

Faiza Amin, City News Dec 2, 2025 Flavio Volpe appears in studio to discuss the impact Canada-U.S. trade tensions have had on manufacturing sectors. On CUSMA, he points out that “The deeper you go into the data the more you’ll see how integrated we are to their benefit.” He argues that Canada is an important partner for the U.S. auto industry, as “$26 billion worth of U.S. auto parts were brought into Canada to be put into cars.” Watch here