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

Adrian Ghobrial, CTV National News Nov 4, 2025 As the federal budget is released, Flavio Volpe comments on how the government could support the auto industry. (Flavio appears @ 09:06) Watch here

Todd Vanderheyden, CTV News, Nov 3, 2025 Flavio Volpe of the Automotive Parts Manufactures’ Association on hopes the auto sector will receive a boost in the upcoming Liberal budget. Watch here

Greg Durocher and Ian Mclean, Business to Business | 570 News Radio Kitchener Nov 2, 2025 APMA President Flavio Volpe discussing the latest trade war news and upheavals in the auto sector. He also speaks on the upcoming budget and how new industrial policies can help auto. (Flavio appears @ 06:52) Listen here

Deb Hutton, The Deb Hutton Show | Newstalk 1010 Oct 30, 2025 APMA President Flavio Volpe speaks about the ongoing fight for the Canadian auto industry in the face of American tariffs. (Flavio appears @ 22:57) Listen here

Eric Atkins, The Globe and Mail Oct 29, 2025 Flavio Volpe, head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, told the committee the Brampton plants supported up to 10,000 jobs at nearby parts makers. Most of those jobs are gone. “We were all waiting for the Compass,” he told the committee. Read here

Michael Serapio, Primetime Politics | CPAC October 29, 2025 Flavio Volpe, president of the Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association discusses the future of the Canadian auto industry amid several plant closures and demands from the U.S. to build cars state-side. (Flavio appears @ 03:06) Watch here

Tonda MacCharles and Robert Benzie, Toronto Star Oct 28, 2025 Flavio Volpe, head of the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association, said with the main political players away from Washington and Ottawa at the APEC summit this week, he didn’t expect an immediate thaw. “And my general takeaway from everybody was nobody knows what the next step is right now,” he said. Read here

Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times Oct 25, 2025 “This is the latest in a series of unprovoked and unwarranted escalations in tariff policy with other sovereign nations,” said Flavio Volpe, the president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, a trade group. Read here