Paul Hellyer

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Paul Hellyer (+/- 1940)

Paul Theodore Hellyer PC FRSA (born August 6, 1923 in Waterford , Ontario ) is a Canadian entrepreneur , engineer , businessman and politician of the Liberal Party , the Progressive-Conservative Party and most recently the Canadian Action Party, who has been a member of the House of Commons for more than 23 years , was Minister on several occasions and chaired the Canadian Action Party between 1997 and 2003.

Life

Professional career and politician with the Liberal Party

After attending school, Hellyer completed a course of study, which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts . Between 1944 and 1946 he did his military service in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Artillery. He later worked as a civil engineer, entrepreneur and businessman.

In the general election of June 27, 1949 , Hellyer was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Liberal Party as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Davenport until his defeat in the general election of June 10, 1957 . His first government office took over Hellyer in February 1956 as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister for National Defense, before he was in the 17th Canadian Cabinet formed by Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent from April 1957 to June 1957 Assistant Minister to the Minister for National Defense.

After he again missed the re-entry as a member of the lower house in the general election on March 31, 1958 in this constituency, he was re-elected as a member of the lower house in a by-election on December 15, 1958 in the constituency of Trinity. On April 22, 1963, Prime Minister Lester Pearson finally appointed him Minister of National Defense in the 19th government of Canada , where he took over the post of Minister of Transport on September 19, 1967 after a government reshuffle.

At the Liberal Party conference on April 6, 1968, Hellyer was among the candidates to succeed Lester Pearson, party leader. He came second in the first ballot with 330 delegate votes, although the gap to the first place, the then Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau , who received 752 votes, was clear. In the second ballot he landed just under third place among the six remaining candidates with 465, and in the third ballot with five candidates with 377 votes, whereupon he withdrew his candidacy. Ultimately, Trudeau prevailed in the fourth ballot and was elected chairman of the Liberal Party with 50.9 percent.

He retained the post of Minister of Transport even after Pearson's successor Pierre Trudeau had formed the 20th Canadian cabinet on April 20, 1968 . A little over a year later, Hellyer resigned as Minister of Transport on April 29, 1969 after disagreements over the government's housing policy.

Political career in the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Action Party

After several re-elections, Hellyer resigned from the Liberal Party on May 20, 1971, initially remained as an independent liberal in the lower house and was then re- elected as a member of parliament in the Trinity constituency after joining the progressive-conservative party in the lower house election on October 30, 1972 , but already lost his constituency two years later in the general election on July 8, 1974 . During this time between December 1972 and September 1974 he was the spokesman for the progressive-conservative opposition faction for industry, trade and commerce.

At the party conference of the Progressive Conservative Party on February 22, 1976, he also applied to succeed Robert Stanfield as party chairman. However, he was only fifth out of eleven candidates in the first ballot with 231 delegate votes and only sixth among the remaining eight candidates in the second ballot with 118 votes, whereupon he withdrew his candidacy. Finally, in the fourth ballot , Joe Clark became the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party with 1187 votes, just ahead of Claude Wagner, who got 1122 delegate votes.

In November 1982 he resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party and was again a member of the Liberal Party, before he left this again in 1997 and became the founder and first chairman of the Canadian Action Party. As such, he led this party as the top candidate in the lower house election of June 2, 1997 and November 27, 2000 , in which the party received only 17,502 votes (0.13 percent) and 27,101 votes (0.21 percent) respectively missed the House of Commons. He himself ran in vain in the constituencies of Etobicoke-Lakeshore (1997) and Toronto Center-Rosedale (2000) for re-election as MP. In 2003 he finally resigned as chairman of the Canadian Action Party.

Hellyer also wrote numerous books that dealt in particular with political issues. He repeatedly makes headlines by speaking about extraterrestrial life on Earth. He advocated using the alleged technologies of aliens to stop climate change and urges governments to hinder the transfer of knowledge from extraterrestrial to terrestrial science.

Publications

  • Agenda: a plan for action , Scarborough 1971
  • Exit inflation , Scarborough 1981
  • Jobs for all: capitalism on trial , Toronto 1984
  • Canada at the crossroads: a Liberal agenda for the 90's and beyond , Toronto 1990
  • Damn the torpedoes: my fight to unify Canada's armed forces , Toronto 1990
  • Funny money , Toronto 1994
  • Surviving the global financial crisis: the economics of hope for generation X , Toronto 1996
  • The evil empire: globalization's darker side , Toronto 1997
  • Stop: think , Toronto 1999
  • Goodbye Canada , Toronto 2001
  • One big party: to keep Canada independent , Toronto 2003
  • A Miracle in Waiting , Toronto 2010, update of Surviving the Global Financial Crisis
  • Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species , Toronto 2010
  • The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis , 2014

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Alien technology the best hope to 'save our planet': ex-defense boss ( memento of the original from April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ottawa Citizen , February 28, 2007, accessed May 14, 2015; Again Former Canadian Defense Minister claims the Illuminati is real and has technology to reverse climate change but wants to keep it secret to help the petroleum industry, Daily Mail , February 1, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canada.com
personal data
SURNAME Hellyer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellyer, Paul Theodore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterford , Ontario