B8 - Sunday, February 27, 1983 - North Shore News Hi auto GM_MAKING A PROFIT Back to work by Spring TORONTO (UPC) - General Motors of Canada Ltd. will make a profit this year after a record 1982 loss and all laid off employees should be back to work by spring, GM Canada president Donald In a_ wide-ranging in- terview after addressing the Canadian Construction Association, Hackworth also discussed Japanese auto imports, his views on the Auto Pact and a federal task force study of the industry. Earlier this month, Canada’ reported a loss of $79 million in 1982 despite its second best sales year. “We're going to inch our way out of the economic doldrums and are very encouraged about the orders we are receiving.” When asked if GM Canada would make a profit this year, the president said, “That's right we have bottomed out and we're on our way.” About 3,500 workers were Court says ‘no’ to suit OTTAWA(UPC) - The Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday denied four car buyers the right to carry out a $5 million class action suit against General Motors of Canada on behalf of nearly 5,000 purchasers of allegedly defective Firenzas. Supreme Court Justice Willard Estey ruled the four buyers could sue General Motors on their own behalf but said they failed to show they could meet the legal requirements for oa class acuion suit, because “the range of circumstances that may be found to exist bet ween (car) owners as almost infinite " Four irate purchasers of recently recalled at plants in Oshawa, Ont. and St. Therese, Que., he said, and the remaining 1,700 laid off GM employees “will be back to work by early spring if the trend continues.” Hackworth said the 1965 Auto Pact with the United States bad been good for Canada but should be reformed into a “mulitiateral agreement” which con- sidered “the intrusion into the marketplace” of imports from Japan and Europe. “I think =the’ important ought to put together a commitment on what the Japanese are going to do in North America and more specifically in Canada.” The Japanese showed prudence by cutting car imports by 11,000 to 79,000 until mid-year, he said, but International Trade Minister Gerald Regan should deveop a tong-term import agreement which also in- cluded trucks. 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