“Please note that I would jnvest monies in ice-making machinery in the North Pole before investing in Canada.” That's ome of the replies a Conference Board of Canada study of recent foreign investment in Canada got back in more than 750 answers to a wide-ranging series of questions sent to real or potential investors round the world, wondering whether they'd put their money in Canada. It must be noted the reply — from a New Jersey businessman, not identified further — wasn't typical, The study found that generally most foreign investors in plants or resources look on Canada in a pretty favorable light. The report is the first of a three-part analysis of foreign investment in Canada. Two later ones will look at the screening performed by the Foreign Investment Review Agency, and then study the place of foreign investment in Canada’s economy. Such a study is long overdue. The argument between those who say foreign ial to Canada's ic growth and those who maintain that outside control must be curtailed — though the debate is a key to the country’s future — has become tedious. That's because beth sides continue to use what are ped more than two decades ago, to support their cases. They're strong on feelings but short on hard facts, unless figures have been plucked out selectively to try to shore up an ill-defined presentation. GAINS IMPETUS The issue of economic control of the country dates back, of course, to before Confederation. The latest bout got fresh life during the 1960s, culmination for a while in a federal government report under then revenue minister In fact, FIRA proved on the whole to be genegous in foreign gh there was growing overseas criticism of what was seen as silly and needless delays caused by still another government bureaucracy. ‘Then, in 1980, the federal government introduced its national energy program which said, in effect, Canada First. Although it was aimed at the petroleum industry, in retrospect it's clear that it frightened would-be investors in other fields. Since the tough recession of 1961-82, Ottawa has eased its FIRA restrictions and taken some other steps to convince would-be investors that Canada is a safe haven for their money. When they try to keep emotional nationalism out of the matter, most economists agree that foreign invest- ment is essential to Canada’s economic growth. Canada has huge potential for growth, but its ion is too small to the money needed to pay for it. The problem now is compounded by the huge federal government deficits — an estimated $31.5 billjon last year and an expected $30 billion this year — which are going to have to be met by borrowing. That will cut into the supply of money which would normally be ble to finance and the slack will have to be met from overseas. While the conference board study found that Canada still is generally looked on favorably by potential investors, it turned up one especially disturbing point. It found a fear that Canada will change the rules for investment in midstream. Rightly or not, many would-be investors read that into FIRA, as well as the implications of the energy program. International businessmen can live with controls — all countries have them — but nothing will scare their the quarter the ee had sales of $26.6 millidn, but. a tem- porary shutdown due to iow metal prices and high oper- ating costs cost the company $3.9 million or 87 cents per ‘The return to profitability resulted from improved re- turns from zine concentrate. Zine metal prices continued to imerease over 1983 levels with the first quarter of 1964 U.S. Producers’ Price aver- aging 50.3 cents a pound compared to 38.4 cents in the same period last year. Lead metal prices on the London Metal Exchange av- eraged 19.1 cents U.S. per pound in the quarter com- pared to 20.7 cents for the comparable period. Sales of lead and zine concentrates Cominco dividend VANCOUVER — Cominco Ltd. has declared a dividend Herb Gray. value to Canada. It offered various policy approaches, but the one the government opted for was setting up FIRA in 1974, to screen foreign investment to ensure it was of significant money away faster than uncertainty. It would be unfortunate if Canada didn't take steps to ensure its reputation as a safe and stable site for investment. It could be a lot worse than that in longer-term effects if needed monies are scared away. VSE stock prices VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in moder- ately heavy trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange Friday. Volume to close was 11,660,222 shares. Of issues traded, 246 ad- vanced, 214 declined and 399 were unchanged. The VSE index was 1082.32, up 3.55 from Thursday's close. In the industrials, B.C. Re- sources remained at $3.70 on 69,590, Great National Land was steady at .85 on 8,800, Datatech Systems declined -10 to $1.40 on 4,500 and Baleo Industries was un- changed at $153% on 2,600. 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Mike Bossy, with his first of the best-of-seven series, and Clark Gillies scored the other goals for New York, who built a 5-0 lead by 8:24 of the second period to chase Penney from the Montreal net for the first time in the Pierre Mondou, with a second period goal, and Mark Hunter, who scored a third-period power-play goal, scored for the Canadiens. It was only the second time in 12 playoff games Montreal had not scored the first goal. Rick Wamsley, making his first playoff appearance, faced 12 shots in a little more than a period and a half of work, It was a quiet night for Islanders goaltender Billy Smith, who had to contend with brief flurries of offensive pressure by Montreal, faced 22 shots. The victory ran his playoff won-lost mark to 81-29, breaking former Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden's tecord of 80 victories. Penney, who entered the game with a 1.54 goals-against average, gave up five goals on 14 shots in the 28 minutes 24 seconds he worked. That increased his average to 1.91. He had little chance on Jonsson's power-play slap shot, as he was screened by Brent Sutter and Gilbert, but appeared uncertain on Gilbert's first goal 13 seconds later. Gilbert broke in from the blue line after taking a pass from Pat Flatley, held the puck until Pegney went down, then tuckéd in a backhand shot. Gilbert broke in from the right-wing boards to score his second goal at second period and again did nothing fancy, just waited until Penney dropped to his knees then lofted a backhander over his shoulder. LIFTS PENNEY Penney was replaced by Wamsley at that point. :24 of the The Islanders, outhustled in the offensive zone by Montreal in the first two games, dominated in the Canadiens end Saturday night. Butch Goring and Brent Sutter, in particular, buzzed around getting in the way of Montreal! defencemen and forcing turnovers. left shoulder. slanders back in ao UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CP) — Greg Gilbert scored two breakaway goals as New York Islanders strafed goaltender Steve Penney and beat Montreal 5-2 to cut the Canadiens’ lead in the National Hockey League Wales Conference final to two games to one. ‘The pair of digging forwards tied up Larry Robinson and Craig Ludwig on the play that led to Gillies’ sixth goal of the playoffs. Gillies, planted in front of Penney, had his back to the net when he swept a backhander through Penney’s legs at 6:01 of the first period. Bossy, held to just one shot in the first two games, had more room to manoeuvre and wasn't touched at all on his second-period goal. Brent Sutter did the board work and Bossy scooped up the puck and skated in from the left boards before picking the short side that Penney had left open. Defenceman Dave Langevin was back in the lineup for New York after missing four games with a separated But the Islanders, LaFontaine, Bob Bourne and Stefan persson, lost Mats Hallin when he suffered a shoulder sprain in the first period. already with Pat OILERS ONE WIN AWAY FROM FINALS By John Korobanik ONLY BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (CP) — Jari Kurri’s power-play goal early in the third period Saturday night started a five-goal Edmonton rally that carried the Oilers to an 8-5 victory over Minnesota North Stars and a three games to none lead in the National Hockey League Campbell Conference final. Kurri scored at 4:58 — Edmonton's third power-play goal — and Glenn Anderson and Ken Linseman added goals in the next couple minutes, Mark Messier scored at 10:10 shorthanded and Wayne Gretzky scored on a penalty shot at 10:47. The outburst, following Paul Coffey’s power-play goal late in the second period, enabled the Oilers to overcome a 5-2 lead Minnesota built on four consecutive second-period, power-play goals — three during a major penalty to Oiler Dave Lumley. Lumley drew the major for spearing Dino Ciccarelli during a pushing-and-shoving incident that began after the whistle at 8:13. Mark Napier scored twice — at 8:48 and 10:22 — and Neal Broten once, at 12:04. That outburst came after Brad Maxwell's power-play goal at 4:08 of the period. Broten scored again to put the Stars up 5-2. Lumley and Wayne Gretzky had scored for Edmonton in the first period. Edmonton can win the best-of-seven series with a victory Tuesday night. Only two teams in history have come back from 3-0 playoff deficits. COME OUT HITTING In contrast to the first two games, won 7-1 and 4-3 by Edmonton, the North Stars came out hitting Saturday and the strategy worked — for a while. Althrough they trailed 2-0 after the first period the Stars played the Oilers on even terms territorially and had the better scoring chances. But Andy Moog, playing for the injured Grant Fuhr, was unbeatable in the Edmonton net. Lumley opened the scoring at 10:30. Minnesota defenceman Lars Lindgren tried to clear the puck behind the net but had it bounce off the end boards and the side of the new right to Lumley cruising in front. Gretzky scored on a power play at 12:28. But the Stars began their comeback when Maxwell slid a rebound under the legs of Moog who had fallen making the initial save. Four minutes later Lumley drew his major penalty during a pushing-and-shoving incident that began after the whistle. Napier burst around defenceman Don Jackson and beat Moog high and then slipped pass Randy Gregg to beat a diving Moog to the puck. QUICK GOALS Broten scored on a rebound and 32 seconds later scored again on a low backhand when Moog backed into his own net. Coffey's power-play at 14:00 cooled the Stars and the Oilers created three more dangerous scoring chances before the period ended. Hinton makes debut as coach VANCOUVER (CP) — Alan Hinton will make his debut as Vancouver head coach today when the White- caps host New York Cosmos in the annual Spring Cup York. exhibition game between Two key players from last North American Soccer season, striker David Cross League teams. and midfielder Frans Thij- Hinton, former coach in gssen, have returned after Tulsa and Seattle, was hired playing during the winter in by the Whitecaps in January England. following the resignation of FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL . . . Everybody wants the ball, but it manages to stay just out of reach during a rugby game Wednesday between Stanley Humphrey Secondary School Rockers and Rossland. Rockers shut out Rossland 17-0. The local squad also picked up a 16-6 win Thursday against Midway in Midway. — CasNews Photo by Chery! Calderbonk MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL the Sounders folded last fall. Forward Peter Ward, de- fender Ian Bridge and goal- keeper Chris Turner are ex- pected to start against New WEST’S TRAVEL AGENCY 1217 - 3rd St., Castlegar 365-7782 HENNE TRAVEL 1410 Bay Ave., Trail 368-5595 MAPLE LEAF TRAVEL LTD. - 16th St., Costlegar 365-6616 John Giles. The Cosmos won last year's Spring Cup game 2-1 in a shootout and Vancouver took the original series in 1962. Hinton faces a rebuilding job’ with the departure of goalkeeper Tino Lettieri, de- fender Dave Watson, mid- fielder Peter Lorimer and forwards Peter Beardsley and Alan Taylor. The Whitecaps obtained three Seattle players when BI © New defender Colin Todd won't arrive until next week from England and the White- caps are still seeking another goalkeeper. The Whitecaps open league play May 12 at home against San. Diego Sockers, the 1984 NASL indoor cham- pions. Vancouver led the Western Division last year with a 246 record, but were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by Torohto lizzard. Expos drop 6-1 MONTREAL (CP) — Dar- rell Porter's two-run home run capped a three-run first inning, and St. Louis Car- dinals, behind the six-hit pit- ching of Dave LaPoint over 7 2-8 innings, went on to defeat Montreal Expos 6-1 in a National League baseball game Saturday. LaPoint, 2-3, had entered the game with a 6.75 earned- run average, but he allowed the Expos only six singles, two of which came after two outs in the eighth. That brought in reliever Bruce Sutter, who yielded two hits but got the final four outs for his sixth save. The Cardinals jumped on Montreal starter Bryn Smith, 4-1, for a 3-0 lead in the first. Lonnie Smith tripled to open the game and after Andy Van Slyke followed with a walk, David Green lofted a sacrifice fly to right field. © Smith, bidding to become the majors’ first five-game winner, then yielded Porter's fourth homer on the first pitch. Porter, the Cardinals’ home-run leader, hit a tower- ing fly ball beyond the right- field fence. Montreal cut the margin to 3-1 in its half of the first as Gary Carter’s two-out single scored Pete Rose, who had walked and taken second on a wild piteh by LaPoint. The Cardinals padded their lead with a third-inning run on George Hendrick’s RBI single and a two-out single by Ken Oberkfell in the fifth that scored Van Slyke, who led off with a double. Van Slyke's RBI double off Bob James in the ninth com- pleted the scoring, sending the Expos to their third straight loss. REDS 7 GIANTS 6 CINCINNATI (AP) — Dave Concepcion’s two-out double off the centre-field wall scored Tim Foley in the 18th inning Saturday, giving Cincinnati Reds a 7-6 Na- tional League baseball vic: tory over San Francisco Gi- ants. Gary Redus opened the 13th with a single off Randy Lerch, 1-1, the sixth San Francisco pitcher, and stole his fourth base of the game. However, he was trapped off second on Dave Parker's grounder and Foley forced Parker before Concepcion delivered his game-winning hit that ended the four-hour, 28-minute contest and sent the Giants to their fifth con- secutive loss. Winner Tom Hume, 1-3, pitched the final three inn- ings. ATLANTA 5 HOUSTON 3 HOUSTON (AP) — Dale Murphy broke out of a slump with a pair of two-run homers and Rick Camp and Gene Garber combined on a five- hitter Saturday to pace At- lanta Braves to a 5-3 National League baseball victory over Houston Astros. Camp, 20, the Atlanta starter, did not allow a hit until Kevin Bass led off the Houston sixth with a single. Garber pitched the final 2 2/3 innings to earn his first save of the season and send the Astros to their fifth conse- eutive setback. Murphy, the National League's Most Valuable Play- er in each of the last’ two seasons, followed a third-inn- ing single by Claudell Wash- ington with his third homer of the year. Murphy, who entered the game with a .186 batting av- erage, hit his second homer of the game off loser Bob Knepper, 2-3, in the fifth fol lowing a walk to Washington and a forceout as the Braves won their third game in a row for the first time this season. METS 4 PHILLIES 3 NEW YORK (AP) — Ross Jones, who entered the game in the eighth inning, doubled for his first major-league hit in the ninth to drive in the winning run as New York Mets defeated Philadelphia Phillies 48 in National League baseball action Sat- urday. The Mets had rallied from a 82 deficit to tie the score 3-3 in the eighth on a two-out homer by Darryl Straw- berry, his fifth, off Phillies starter Carles Hudson. Philadelphia relief ace Al Holland, 0-2, took over in the ninth and Hubie Brooks led off with a bloop single just over the head of second baseman Juan Samuel. Hol- land struck out pinch hitter Mike Fitzgerald and had two strikes on Jones before the rookie utilityman hammered his game-winning hit to the wall in left-centre. Brooks scored easily as shortstop Ivan DeJesus bobbled the relay. BOSTON 8 CHICAGO 7 CHICAGO (AP) — Pinch hitter Eddie Jurak tripled home the tying run in the ninth inning Saturday and scored on an error to cap Boston's rally from a six-run deficit and lift the Red Sox to an 87 American League baseball victory over the slumping Chicago White Sox, who dropped their fifth con- secutive game. Jurak’s triple scored Reid Nichols, who singled with two out off reliever Ron decision Reed, 0-3. Jurak s¢ored when shortstop Scott Fletcher mis- played a grounder by Jerry Remy. Mark Clear allowed an un- earned run in the eighth, but picked up the win with 2 1-2 innings of hitless relief. Bob Stanley pitched the ninth for his third save. The White Sox took a 7-6 lead in the bottom of the eighth when pinch hitter Jerry Hairston walked and pinch runner Jerry Dyb- zinski stole second, moved to third on a fly ball and scored on a passed ball by Rich Ged- man. TIGERS 6 INDIANS 2 DETROIT (AP) — Chet Lemon and Lou Whitaker of Detroit homered to back the three-hit pitching of unbeat- en Jack Morris as the Tigers beat Cleveland 6-2 Saturday, stopping the Indians’ Amer- ican League baseball winning streak at five games and re- cording their 17th triumph in 19 games this season. Morris, who struck out five and walked three, is 5-0, the best start in his career. He was 4-1 in April of 1982. Last year, when Morris became the Tigers’ first 20-game winner in 10 years, he didn't win his fourth game until June 3. The Tigers, who saw their chance to tie Oakland's 1981 major-league record of a 17-1 getaway dashed in a 19 inning defeat Friday night, jumped on Cleveland's Rick Behenna, 0-1, for a run in the first inning and led all the way. Whitaker singled and was forced by Alan Trammell, who stole second and scored on a single by Darrell Evans. Barbaro Garbey and Lemon singled in the Detroit second and Dwight Lowry sac- rificed. Both runners scored on Trammell's double for a 3-0 lead. OAKLAND 7 TWINS 0 OAKLAND, CALIF. (AP) — Dave Kingman belted his 10th home run of April — one short of the major-league record for the month — to cap a five-run second inning Saturday that powered Ray Burris and Oakland A's to a 7-0 American League base- ball victory over Minnesota Twins. Burris, 2-0, pitched a four. hitter in his first start of the season. The veteran right- hander struck out seven and walked two in the first com- plete game by an Oakland pitcher this season. Dwayne Murphy and King: man both hit two-run homers in the second inning off Al Williams, 1-3. It was the second homer in two games for Murphy, who has three this season. Kingman, who did not homer until Oakland's eight game, has hit all 10 in the last 15 contests. The major-league record of 11 April homers is shared by Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell (1971), Graig Nettles of New York Yankees (1974), and Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt (1976). The A's final games of the month are in a double- header today. ANGELS 10 MA Connors in tennis final DALLAS (AP) — Jimmy Connors, a former two-time champion and the No. 2 seed, charged into the champion- ship match of a $500,000 World Championship of Ten- nie ment Satur- day 6-0, 746 and 62 victory over young Jimmy Arias. The finals are set for 2 p.m. today. Arias, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., had his moments in the second set against Connors. But his acrobatic talents and baseline backhands were more than outweighed ~by Connors’s experienced shot- making. Connors, who had beaten the 19-year-old Arias in three previous outings, seized the first set in love by breaking his opponent's service three times. The 31-year-old Connors was sharp with his patented two-hand backhand. He de- livered a blistering backhand winner to break Arias’ ser- vice for the first time in the second game. The fiesty teenager dis- played a flash of temper dur- ing his first set troubles. He constantly questioned calls and hit a ball at a lineaman, drawing a conduct warning ANAHEIM, CALIF. (AP) — Geoff Zahn scattered six hits and rookie Gary Pettis belted a grand slam home run in the seventh inning as Cal- ifornia Angels drubbed Se- attle Mariners 10-1 in an American League baseball game Saturday for their ninth victory in the last 11 games. awe of Connors in the second set, breaking service in the first game. Each player lost his service twice in the set. Arias fought off five points in the 12th game to force a tie-breaker that Connors ned 7-5 with a touch of . His fifth point came on a low backhand that hit the net cord and trickled over.