By HUGO FAY

MONTREAL (UPC) -
General Motors of Canada
Ltd. will invest more than $2
billion to modernize Ontario

and Quebec plant facilities _
by 1982’ and create some”

3,300 new jobs, company
_ president Alan Smith said
Wednesday.

The $2 billion investment
plan, he said, would improve
Canada’s automotive trade
balance by $350 million

annually. However, the
short-term ‘‘cyclical
Situation” has forced the

company to lay off 800
workers.

Reviewing GM’s_ 1979
performance in Canada and
looking ahead, Smith said
the record sales levels of
cars and trucks in Canada of
between 1.4 and 1.5 million
units would likely be
repeated in 1980.

GM, which has eight car
and truck assembly plants in

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per cent more than the
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Smith estimated their total
sales value at between $8
billion and $9 billion.

“This achievement out-
paced the United States
where there was a downturn
in sales,” Smith said, adding
that the depreciated ex-
change rate for the Canadian
dollar has made domestic

products competitive
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that some sectors of the

Canadian economy are
reaching the physical
capability to meet world

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to Canadians overseas.”

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about 80,000 cars and trucks
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other than the United States,
primarily in South America,
the Middle East and Europe.

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Smith said he was con-
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strength of both the U. S. and
Canadian economies” and
expected only a “relatively
mild” U.S. recession with a
return to a “more normal”
growth pattern by the latter
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