Brian Platt

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Ottawa bureau chief, Bloomberg News

Flavio Volpe, president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said any Leapmotor production in Brampton “must be full vehicle assembly with local suppliers as has been the case since 1962 in that plant.” “Chinese knockdown kits may be fine for Brazil, but they aren’t for the hundreds of Canadian auto parts suppliers who are waiting for that plant to reopen,” Volpe said in a text message. “We don’t need a bad deal, and we shouldn’t settle for one.”