B11 - Sunday, April 4, 1982 - North Shore News

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CAR CARE CALENDAR

@ STUDDED TIRES must be removed by April 30. Mark tires (“Left”, “Right’) for proper placement

@ WASH SALT, CAKED MUD from underside of car - reduce corrosion and gas-using extra weight

@ CHECK BODY FOR RUST, scratches - repair as needed

@ PLAN HOLIDAY TRAVEL ~ have major repairs done . before “Summer Travel Rush”

BC AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

‘Stop acting like boyscouts’

OTTAWA (UPI) — Canada

Should impose cantent quotas on its automobile imports and quit being

“international boy scouts” to create more jobs in_ the country’s ailing automobile industry. federal New Democrauc Party leader Edward Broadbent says. Broadbent said Canada, like many other nations, should act in a more self- interested manner to protect itself in the face of in- ternational recession. “We're the only in- dustrialized country in the world that behaves ac- cording to principles of tree

trade.” Broadbent = said. “We're international boy scouts . and as a result we

have 30,000 auto workers unemployed. It’s a disastrous situauon.”

Earlier, External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan told Broadbent that Canada was still working on reaching agreement on_ restricting imports from Japan before the current arrangement

expires April I.

He regretted International Trade Minister Ed Lumley recently returned from Japan empty-handed but said talks were continuing among Officials.

“Since the Japanese are not disputing whether or not there will be an agreement but what the contents of the agreement will be, we do not deem it to be a matter of great concern whether we reach the agreement by April ! or not,” he said.

MacGuigan said that although last year's agreement with Japan was not reached until June. it was retroactive and the same would apply this time. The total number of Japanese automobiles exported to Canada after April | will be taken into account when computing this year’s total under a new agreement, he said.

Conservative MP Bill Jarvis said the unem- ployment rate among workers in the auto parts

General Motors extends rebates

-OSHAWA, Ont. (UPC) - General Motors of Canada will extend its rebate program to April 30 but will not follow the lead of the parent corporation and reduce interest rates on new car loans.

Company spokesman Nick Hall said the rebate program

started Feb. 1 has been “good for us” and meant increased car and_ truck

sales. He said sales figures would be released within a

few days.

Under GM's rebate program, customers who purchase or order 1982

models until April 30 will receive rebates ranging from $500 to $2,000.

Rebates of $500 were offered to buyers) of Chevrolet S-10, GMC S-15, Chevette, Pontiac Acadian, T1000, Celebrity. Pontiac

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6000, Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra and Buick Century.

GM will rebate $750 to buyers of Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Omega, Skylark, Chevrolet and GMC light-duty trucks, Chevrolet Cavalier, Pontiac J2000, Firenza, Skyhawk and Cadillac Cimarron.

Buyers of Cadillac Seville will receive a rebate of $2.000.

In Detroit, General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it was cutting interest rates on new car loans to 12.8 per cent — nearly 5 points lower than current levels.

GM said the lower rates will be available until May 31 for buyers of new cars, light-duty trucks and vans and would save the customer an average $825 (U.S.) over the term of a typical loan. The average GM car now

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sector had risen to 38 percent, and blamed Canada’s detenorating share of the U.S. auto parts market.

“Fifteen years ago Canada accounted for 75 percent of American imports of auto parts, today it is 38 percent,” Jarvis said.

“Under the auto pact our share of the U.S. market has been cut in half and the

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result, of course, is the human and economic misery which is the by-product of thousands of lost jobs.”

Industry Minister Herb Gray said the government would continue talks with the United States to try to improve the pact to reduce a $35-billion deficit in auto parts trade, but blamed the U.S. recession for the fall in sales from Canada.

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