Advice for the PM: Ask these people for advice

Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Maura Forrest, POLITICO April 18, 2022 Canada-United States Law Institute’s 46th annual conference will talk supply chain challenges for North America later this week. Auto parts exec Flavio Volpe is in the house. Read piece here.

Sorry Ukraine, we ran out of guns

Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Politico March 17, 2022 APMA president Flavio Volpe isn’t afraid to mix it up at parliamentary committees, where witnesses are often staid and scripted. We asked Volpe for a preview of what’s to come. Read piece here.

The most important committees you’ve never heard of

Nick Taylor-Vaisley, Zi-Ann Lum, Politico December 6, 2021 APMA President Flavio Volpe discusses his meetings with Trade Minister Mary Ng in Washington last week and his plans to go back to D.C., on the heels of APMA’s first in-person conference since the onset of COVID. Volpe gave Playbook a sense of his strategy south of […]

Auto industry could shift to make ventilators

ADAM BEHSUDI, Politico March 18, 2019 General Motors is studying whether to retool its shuttered production lines to make ventilators and other needed medical equipment to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, company officials said Wednesday. GM CEO Mary Barra was in contact with administration officials on Wednesday updating them on a decision to suspend production […]