{"id":655660,"date":"2026-05-08T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:18:25","slug":"canadas-auto-industry-cant-exist-without-the-u-s-says-brian-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655660\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s auto industry can&#8217;t exist without the U.S., says Brian Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/514c2841390bad3583b5560307ca4dd8.jpeg\" alt=\"Canadian Minister Of Environment Catherine McKenna Tour Of Magna International Inc. Polycon Industries Manufacturing Facility\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"720\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> An employee carries a General Motors Co. Chevrolet bumper at the Magna International Inc. Polycon Industries auto parts manufacturing facility in Guelph, Ont. (Credit: Cole Burston\/Bloomberg files)         <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Brian Kingston, chief executive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/tag\/canadian-vehicle-manufacturers-association\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers\u2019 Association<\/a>, talks with Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn about how Canada\u2019s auto industry can\u2019t exist without the <a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:United States;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;United States&quot;}\" class=\"link \">United States<\/a>. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/tag\/diversification\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Diversification;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Diversification&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Diversification<\/a> for auto is not an option. If we do not have U.S. access, we do not have an auto industry,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s just the bottom line, so we really need to get this relationship right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Email: <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/mailto:lharapyn@postmedia.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:lharapyn@postmedia.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lharapyn@postmedia.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lharapyn@postmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee carries a General Motors Co. Chevrolet bumper at the Magna International Inc. Polycon Industries auto parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22323,242926,45,49,48,242928,46,149685,29545,242929,242927],"class_list":["post-655660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-auto-industry","tag-brian-kingston","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-vehicle-manufacturers-association","tag-economy","tag-larysa-harapyn","tag-magna-international-inc","tag-manufacturing-facility","tag-polycon-industries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}