A Message from Our CEO: Reflecting on a Year of Progress, Partnership, and Purpose

As 2025 comes to a close, I want to extend my sincere thanks to our members, partners, and supporters. This year brought major policy shifts and global uncertainty, yet our industry continued to show leadership, resilience, and real progress toward a more competitive, lower-carbon energy future.

In a fast-changing policy environment, the CFA team worked diligently to ensure the framework shaping our sector remains fair, stable, and investment-ready. We advanced key elements of the Clean Fuel Regulations, emphasized the need for investment parity for Canadian biofuel producers considering international measures such as the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, and pressed for needed policy support for co-processing at existing refineries to scale up renewable fuel production. We remained deeply engaged on broader energy and climate policies and delivered tangible results on renewable fuel requirements, compliance flexibility, and regulatory clarity.

Across Canada and internationally, we took part in forums that showcased new pathways for lower-carbon fuel production and emission-reduction solutions and underscored the need for regulatory flexibility. In these discussions, we emphasized that collaboration and clear, stable policy are essential to drive innovation, strengthen competitiveness, and support Canada’s transition to a cleaner energy future.

Engaging Canadians also remained central to our work. Our Fuel Forward campaign continued to grow, raising awareness of the industry’s behind-the-scenes contributions and improving public understanding of the solutions our sector are developing. We expanded our work with stakeholders through events such as the Clean Fuel Summit, Scaling Up, or events hosted by organizations like the Transportation Energy Institute and the Coalition for a Better Future, reinforcing how industry competitiveness and energy reliability are essential ingredients to a strong Canadian economy and a successful energy transition.

This year’s CFA Awards of Excellence was a resounding success, featuring two forward-looking sessions on the industry’s future and celebrating the remarkable people and projects shaping our sector. We were also proud to partner with the Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) to host our second annual innovation forum titled: Fuels for the Future, which highlighted the technology, ingenuity, and expertise driving progress across Canada’s transportation fuels value chain.

As we look ahead to 2026, CFA will stay focused on advocating for competitiveness, policy clarity, and the innovations needed to support a reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon transportation fuels system for Canadians for decades to come.

On behalf of the Canadian Fuels Association and our Board of Directors, I wish you a joyful holiday season. Thank you for your continued trust and support.

Best of the season,

Bob Larocque
President and CEO
Canadian Fuels Association