Frank arrived in this country from Austria in 1954, (four years after Stephen Jarislowsky who was originally from Germany), a worker who a few years later founded his own company which he steadily built up into the colossal auto parts giant Magna. I considered it at the time and still do a misfortune that he was not able to gain control of the German Opel automobile company when it was offered for sale during the financial crisis of General Motors, or of Chrysler Corporation when it was in distress. Canada needs an automobile company of its own, like Sweden, South Korea, and, up to a point, Spain. Frank has moved on to other activities, including the production of the electric vehicle Sarit, but as he reminisced over a very tasty organic lunch including a quite potable wine, he elaborated on the corporate governance philosophy he believes was largely the reason
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