Officials of the Canada Development Corp

Original Toronto Star caption: Officials of the Canada Development Corp., the federal government's investment arm, came to Toronto yesterday to promote their planned public issue of shares. Addressing a news conference (from left) are John Abell, a vice-president of Wood Gundy Ltd., CDC president Anthony Hampson and CDC executive vice-president Donald Morrison. Abell said the financial community is prepared to back the CDC ''because it has clearly shown itself to be independent.''