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

Greg Layson, Auto News Dec 2, 2025 Flavio Volpe said that since 2019, “the USTR’s own numbers” show U.S. content in Canada-made vehicles has risen to “about 50 per cent” from 38 per cent under the USMCA. “So, it’s a great opportunity for me to show in the data that there’s been tremendous benefit to the U.S. in this partnership,” Volpe said. Read here

Kyle Horner, AM 800 CKLW | The Shift With Patty Handysides Dec 2, 2025 Flavio Volpe comments “that the USMCA is still important to the US governments” and that he takes this “opportunity seriously and I take the responsibility seriously, as the only Canadian industrial sector representative, to deliver our message in a way that Canadians would be proud to hear in content and in tone.” Listen here

Ari Hawkins, Politico Nov 23, 2025 Trump’s additional tariffs, due to Ontario’s anti-tariff ads, did not materialize. APMA President Flavio Volpe said a personal intervention by Carney in Asia last month may have helped matters. “We understand that the prime minister spoke with the president directly about the ads, it may very well be that they settled the matter between them,” he said. Read here

Sean Previl, Global News Nov 17, 2025 Amongst other policy changes and details he wants to see, Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said “The best we could have expected was here’s the challenge and the funds available if you take that challenge. So we’re satisfied, we really are.” Read here

Ellianna Lev, CTV News Nov 16, 2025 Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA, argues that Americans are realizing that Trump’s tariffs are increasing their cost of living. “When his treasury secretary is spending the week saying we’re going to give everybody $2,000 back, then they kind of lose the argument that tariffs don’t raise prices,” said Volpe. Read here

Mark Toljagic, Toronto Star Nov 15, 2025 Canadian content is nearly impossible to pin down, says Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, because CUSMA measures 75 per cent North American content rather than breaking it out by country. Read here

Chris Ensing, CBC News Nov 10, 2025 Because of how interlinked the North American auto industry is, APMA President Flavio Volpe comments that “vehicle assembly in the U.S. is at risk when things like this happen, whether they’ve happened because a company is refusing to deliver parts or because the White House makes the wrong move.” (Flavio appears @ 02:08) Watch here

Bill Carroll, The Morning Rush | 580 CFRA Nov 10, 2025 Bill is joined by president of the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association, Flavio Volpe, to discuss the legal case between Stellantis and one of its suppliers. He points to the court documents as a window into the intricacies of the auto supply chain between Canada and the U.S. It’s a “fragile ecosystem” where if a producer “can’t get those parts, it’s going to shut production in their plant.” Listen here

Chris Ensing, CBC News Windsor Nov 10, 2025 “When [U.S. President] Donald Trump says, ‘I want to have everything sourced in the U.S.’ and his administration thinks it can happen overnight,” said APMA president Flavio Volpe, "here's a world-leading automaker saying that for a very simple part, a rotor, it would be minimum 24 months.” Read here

Staff Writer, CBC News Nov 5, 2025 Flavio Volpe is head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. He said while there is opportunity to pivot to other sectors, it’s limited for businesses that work in automotive. “We have to be clear, defence volumes are much smaller than automotive volumes,” he said. Read here

Amanda Pfeffer, Ontario Today | CBC Radio Nov 5, 2025 Flavio Volpe, the head of Canada’s APMA, spoke on the intentions in the budget to increase spending on defence. (Flavio appears @ 33:13) Listen here