Opinion | Mark Carney’s China EV deal comes at a tense moment. This is how we must navigate the risks

Flavio Volpe, Toronto Star

Jan 21, 2026

APMA President Flavio Volpe argues that tariffs, in the face of China’s heavily state-supported auto industry, protects Canadian manufacturing and that we should be clear-eyed about the dangers of peeling back those protections. He maintains that the deal should be “conditional and reversible” and that “Long-term market access for Chinese EVs must be tied to manufacturing in Canada with Canadian partners in Canadian facilities, employing Canadian workers and meet North American content rules.”

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