Top 5 Canadian auto stories this week: Hasenfratz has a warning; Linamar plans spending; more

Canada’s second-largest automotive parts supplier dominated the headlines this week. Linamar Executive Chair Linda Hasenfratz has some startling words that gripped the industry. She predicts the North American auto industry will grind to a halt within a week of 25-per-cent tariffs being slapped on all good from Canada. Meanwhile, her company pledged to spend about $1 billion on its factories in Ontario.