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Early political career

First elected as a Liberal in 1949 federal election in the riding of Davenport, he was the youngest person ever elected to that point the Canadian House of Commons. He served a brief stint as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence, and made a good impression. He was then named Associate Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent. This post was short-lived, though, as Hellyer lost his seat when the Saint-Laurent government lost the 1957 election a few months later. The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is a Left of center political party in Canada. ... The Canadian federal election of 1949 was the first election in Canada in almost thirty years in which the Liberals were not led by William Lyon Mackenzie King. ... Davenport is the name of a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. ... The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, which also includes the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ... In the parliamentary systems of several Commonwealth countries, such as Canada and Australia, it is customary for the prime minister to appoint parliamentary secretaries (in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, parliamentary assistants) from their caucus to assist cabinet ministers with their work. ... Canadian Ministers of National Defence Before 1923, the responsibilities of the current National Defence portfolio were divided between the now-defunct posts of Minister of Militia and Defence (List) and Minister of the Naval Service (List). ... A member of the Canadian cabinet, the Associate Minister of National Defence is responsible for various files within the defence department as assigned by the Prime Minister or Defence Minister. ... The Cabinet of Canada (French: Cabinet du Canada) plays an important role in the Canadian government in accordance with the Westminster System. ... The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada), the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Louis Stephen St. ... The Canadian federal election of 1957 was held June 10, 1957. ...

Hellyer returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the neighbouring riding of Trinity, and became an effective opposition critic of the John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... Trinity was a Canadian electoral district that existed from 1933 to 1987. ... John George Diefenbaker (September 18, 1895 - August 16, 1979) was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ...

Cabinet minister and Liberal leadership candidate

When the Liberals returned to power in the 1963 election, Hellyer became Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Lester B. Pearson. This was the most notable period in Hellyer's career. As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the controversial integration and unification of the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces. The Canadian federal election of 1963 resulted in the defeat of the minority Progressive Conservative government of John George Diefenbaker. ... Canadian Ministers of National Defence Before 1923, the responsibilities of the current National Defence portfolio were divided between the now-defunct posts of Minister of Militia and Defence (List) and Minister of the Naval Service (List). ... The Cabinet of Canada plays an important role in the Canadian government in accordance with the Westminster System. ... The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Mike Pearson, PC , CC , OM , OBE , LL.D , MA , BA (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957 and served as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, to... Canadian Forces Land Force Command (LF) is responsible for army operations within the Canadian Armed Forces. ... The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was the navy of Canada from 1911 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. ... The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. ... The Canadian Forces (CF) (Fr: Forces canadiennes (FC)) are the combined branches of the military of Canada. ...

Hellyer contested the 1968 Liberal leadership convention, placing second on the first ballot, but slipping to third on the second and third ballots, and withdrawing to support Robert Winters on the fourth ballot, in which Pierre Trudeau won the leadership. He served as Trudeau's Transport Minister, and was Senior Minister in the Cabinet, a position similar to the current position of Deputy Prime Minister. Pierre Trudeau at the 1968 Liberal convention The Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention of 1968 elected Pierre Elliott Trudeau as the new leader of the Liberal Party; he was the unexpected winner in what was one of the most important leadership conventions in party history. ... The Honourable Robert Henry Winters, PC (August 18, 1910 - October 10, 1969) was a Canadian politician. ... The Right Honourable Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LL.D, FRSC (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. ... This is a list of Canadian Ministers of Transport For those before 1936 see List of Canadian Ministers of Railways and Canals Categories: Lists of Canadian ministers | Transportation in Canada ... The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada is a position in the Canadian government. ...

A political nomad, 1969–1988

Hellyer resigned from cabinet and the Liberal caucus in 1969 over a dispute with Trudeau over funding for a housing program. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...

Hellyer sat as an independent for several years. After his 1971 attempt to form a new political party, Action Canada, failed, Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield invited him to join the PC caucus. He returned to prominence as an opposition critic and was re-elected in the 1972 election as a Progressive Conservative. He lost his seat, however, in the 1974 election. 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Action Canada movement was an attempt to establish a new political party in Canada in 1971. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ... The Right Honourable Robert Lorne Stanfield, PC (April 11, 1914-December 16, 2003) was Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. ... A caucus is most generally defined as being a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement. ... The House of Commons after the 1972 election The Canadian federal election of 1972 was held on October 30, 1972 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... The House of Commons after the 1974 election The Canadian federal election of 1974 was held on July 8 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...

Despite this loss, Hellyer contested the PC leadership convention of 1976. His views were too right wing for most delegates, and alienated many Tories with a speech attacking Red Tories as not being "true conservatives". This was surprising, given that Hellyer had spent most of his political career as a Liberal. He finished a distant sixth of eight contestants on the second ballot. The 1976 leadership convention of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was held in Ottawa on February 22, 1976, to elect a leader to replace Robert Stanfield, who had resigned after losing the 1968, 1972, and 1974 elections. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ... Red Tory is a nickname given to a political tradition in Canadas conservative political parties. ...

Hellyer rejoined the Liberal Party in 1982, but remained mostly silent in politics. In 1988, he contested the Liberal nomination in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's, losing to Aideen Nicholson, a former Liberal cabinet minister who had defeated Hellyer fourteen years previously when he was a Tory MP in the adjacent riding of Trinity. This article refers to the Canadian electoral district, for other uses see St. ...

Canadian Action Party

In recent years Hellyer has made headlines for embracing a series of somewhat eccentric or "fringe" political organizations and causes.

In 1997, Hellyer formed the Canadian Action Party (CAP) to provide voters with a nationalist option following the collapse of the National Party of Canada [1]. Hellyer was concerned that both the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties were embracing globalization, and that the New Democratic Party was no longer able to provide a credible alternative. CAP also embraced Hellyer's proposals for monetary reform: that the government should become more involved in the direction the economy by gradualy reducing the creation of private money and increasing the creation of public money from the current ratio of 5% public / 95% private back to 50% public and 50% private. [2] [3]. 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Canadian Action Party (CAP) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. ... // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... The National Party was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 Canadian election. ... Globalisation is a recent term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. ... The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism. ...

His party remained a little-noticed minor party, and Hellyer lost bids for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 and 2000 elections. The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, which also includes the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ... 36th Parliament The Canadian federal election of 1997 was held on June 2, 1997, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ...

Following the 2000 election, and a resurgence for the New Democratic Party, Hellyer approached NDP leadership to discuss the possibility of merging the two parties into 'One Big Party'. This process was furthered by the passage of a unanimous motion at the CAP's convention in 2003. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In early 2004, after several extensions of the merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have required the NDP to change its name. Hellyer resigned as CAP leader, but remains a member of the party. Rumours that he might run for the NDP in the 2004 election proved to be unfounded. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...

Peace in Space and UFO advocacy

On June 3, 1967 Hellyer flew in by helicopter to officially inaugurate an Unidentified flying object landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta. the town had built the landing pad as its Canadian Centennial celebration project, and as a symbol of keeping space free from human warfare. The sign beside the pad reads: "The area under the World's First UFO Landing Pad was designated international by the Town of St. Paul as a symbol of our faith that mankind will maintain the outer universe free from national wars and strife. That future travel in space will be safe for all intergalactic beings, all visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul." June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A UFO — fact or fiction? A UFO or unidentified flying object is any object or optical phenomenon observed in the sky which cannot be identified. ... St. ... The Expo 67 site on le Sainte-H ne and le Notre-Dame The Canadian Centennial was a year long celebration held in 1967 when Canada celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. ...

Throughout his life, Hellyer has been opposed to the weaponization of space. He supports the Space Preservation Treaty to ban space weapons. The Space Preservation Treaty (SPT) is a proposed international treaty to ban space weapons. ...

In early September of 2005, Hellyer made history by publicly announcing that he believed in UFOs. On September 25, 2005, he was an invited speaker at an exopolitics conference in Toronto where he told the audience that he had seen a UFO one night with his late wife and some friends. He said that though he discounted the experience at the time, he had kept an open mind to it. He said that he started taking the issue much more seriously after watching ABC's Peter Jennings' UFO special in February 2005. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A UFO — fact or fiction? A UFO or unidentified flying object is any object or optical phenomenon observed in the sky which cannot be identified. ...

Watching Jennings' UFO special prompted Hellyer to finally read U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso's book The Day After Roswell which had been sitting on his shelf for some time. Hellyer told the Toronto audience that he later spoke to a retired Air Force General who confirmed the accuracy of the information in the book. In November, 2005, he accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting an "Intergalactic War." Colonel Philp J. Corso (1915 - July 16, 1998) an American U. S. Army Colonel who was Chief of the Armys Foreign Technology Division in 1961. ...

Hellyer told the audience that in December 2004, he had enjoyed reading and had endorsed a book by Alfred Webre titled: "Exopolitics - Politics, Government and Law in the Universe". He ended his 30 minute historical talk with a standing ovation by stating: "To turn us in the direction of re-unification with the rest of creation the author is proposing a “Decade of Contact” – an “era of openness, public hearings, publicly funded research, and education about extraterrestrial reality.” Alfred Lambremont Webre (born May 24, 1942) is an author, lawyer, environmentalist and a space activist who promotes the ban of space weapons. ...

Writings, and personal life

Hellyer has written several books on Canada and globalization, including One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent, in which he promoted the merger of the CAP, NDP and various left-wing activists to save Canada from the effects of globalization, and possible annexation by the United States. Globalisation is a recent term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. ...

Hellyer was an early investor in the Toronto Sun, and for a time a columnist for the newspaper. Front page of the Toronto Sun, April 14, 2005. ...

Hellyer currently resides in Toronto. He has three children and five grandchildren.

External links

• Globe and Mail: Hon. Paul Hellyer supports a ban on space weapons
• Official Website: Canadian Action Party
• Canadian Press Newswire: Hon. Paul Hellyer claims UFOs are piloted by non-human intelligence
• Globe and Mail: Hellyer to speak at Exopolitics conference in Toronto September 25, 2005
• Full video presentation of Hon. Paul Hellyer - Toronto Exopolitics Conference (9/25/05)
• Discovery Channel's coverage of Toronto Exopolitics Conference (9/25/05)