Biography:Paul Hellyer
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The Honourable Paul Hellyer | |
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 Hellyer, c. 1967 | |
| Minister of Transport | |
| In office September 19, 1967 – April 30, 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Lester B. Pearson Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Jack Pickersgill |
| Succeeded by | James Armstrong Richardson |
| Senior Minister | |
| In office April 30, 1968 – April 23, 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Minister of National Defence | |
| In office April 22, 1963 – September 18, 1967 | |
| Prime Minister | Lester B. Pearson |
| Preceded by | Gordon Churchill |
| Succeeded by | Léo Cadieux |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Trinity | |
| In office December 15, 1958 – July 7, 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Lockyer |
| Succeeded by | Aideen Nicholson |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Davenport | |
| In office June 27, 1949 – June 9, 1957 | |
| Preceded by | John Ritchie MacNicol |
| Succeeded by | Douglas Morton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Paul Theodore Hellyer August 6, 1923 Waterford, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 8, 2021 (aged 98) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Canadian Action Party (1997–2017) |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal (1949–1971, 1982–1997), Independent (1971), Action Canada (1971–1972), Progressive Conservative (1972–1982) |
| Spouse(s) | Ellen Jean Ralph (m. 1945; died 2004) Sandra Bussiere (m. 2005) [1] |
| Children | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (BA) |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | 20px Canadian Army |
| Years of service | 1944–1946 |
| Rank | 20px Gunner |
| Unit | Royal Canadian Artillery |
Paul Theodore Hellyer PC (August 6, 1923 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.[2]
Early life
Hellyer was born and raised on a farm near Waterford, Ontario, the son of Lulla Maude (Anderson) and Audrey Samuel Hellyer.[3] Upon completion of high school, he studied aeronautical engineering at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics in Glendale, California, graduating in 1941. While studying, he also obtained a private pilot's licence.[4]
After graduation, Hellyer was employed at Fleet Aircraft in Fort Erie, Ontario, which was then making training craft for the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of Canada's war effort in World War II. He attempted to become an RCAF pilot himself, but was told no more pilots were necessary, after which he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and served in Canada as a gunner for the duration of the war.[4]
Hellyer earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1949.[4]
Early political career
Hellyer returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the neighbouring riding of Trinity, and became an opposition critic of John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government.[5]
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 significant period in Hellyer's political career. As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces.[6]
Hellyer contested the 1968 Liberal leadership election, placing second on the first ballot, but slipped to third on the second and third ballots, and withdrew to support Robert Winters on the fourth ballot, in which Pierre Trudeau won the leadership. He served as Trudeau's Transport Minister.
Politics 1969–1988
In 1969, Hellyer issued a major report on housing and urban renewal in which he advocated incremental reforms rather than new government programs. He called for greater flexibility in Canada's mortgage loan system and encouraged corporate pension funds to invest more money in housing programs.[7] His approach did not meet with universal acceptance. Some provincial and municipal governments were openly skeptical,[8] and Heward Grafftey, a left-leaning Progressive Conservative (PC) with an interest in housing, called for a more radical approach.[7]
The report also called for the suspension of the "wholesale destruction of older housing" and for "greater selectivity [...] in the demolition of existing houses".[9] Grand urban renewal projects would come to an end as a result of his Task Force. Hellyer resigned from the cabinet in 1969 after a dispute with Trudeau over the implementation of the housing program.
Under Prime Minister Trudeau, Hellyer served as Canada's only Senior Minister from April 1968 until resigning from the post in 1969.[10][11]
Canadian Action Party
In 1997, Hellyer formed the Canadian Action Party (CAP) to provide voters with an economic nationalist option following the collapse of the National Party of Canada.[12] Hellyer believed 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 of the economy by gradually 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.[13][14]
Extraterrestrial intelligence claims
On June 3, 1967, Hellyer inaugurated an unidentified flying object landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta. The pad was built as the town's Canadian Centennial celebration project and as a symbol of keeping space free from human warfare.[15]
In early September 2005, Hellyer made headlines by publicly announcing that he believed in the existence of UFOs. On September 25, 2005, he was a guest 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. The Ottawa Citizen reported in 2007 that Hellyer was demanding world governments disclose alien technology that could be used to solve the problem of climate change.[16] In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today) in 2014, Hellyer said that at least four species of aliens had been visiting Earth for thousands of years, with most of them coming from other star systems, although there are some living on Venus, Mars and "Saturn's moon".[17]
Personal life and death
Hellyer was one of the earliest investors in the Toronto Sun in 1971.[18] He served as a syndicated columnist for the newspaper[19] between 1974 and 1984.[5][20] He resided in Toronto and had three children and five grandchildren.[21]
Hellyer died in Toronto on August 8, 2021 of complications from a fall, two days after his 98th birthday.[22][23]
Books
- Agenda, a Plan for Action (1971)
- Exit Inflation (1981)
- Jobs for All: Capitalism on Trial (1984)
- Damn the Torpedoes (1990)
- Funny Money: A common sense alternative to mainline economics (1994)
- Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: The Economics of Hope for Generation X (1996)
- Evil Empire : Globalization's Darker Side (1997)
- Stop: Think (1999)
- Goodbye Canada (2001)
- One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent (2003)
- A Miracle in Waiting (2010), update of Surviving the Global Financial Crisis
- Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species (2010)
- The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis (2014)
- Hope Restored: An Autobiography by Paul Hellyer: My Life and Views on Canada, the U.S., the World & the Universe (2018)
- Liberation! The Economics of Hope (2020)
Electoral record
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| December 15, 1958 by-election following Lockyer's death: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Paul Hellyer | 5,175 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | Joe Lesniak | 4,404 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Co-operative Commonwealth | John Elchuk | 1,724 | ||
| 1962 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Paul Hellyer | 9,615 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | Stanley Frolick | 6,124 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Thomas Paton | 3,740 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Independent | Peter D'Agostino | 295 | ||
| 1963 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Paul Hellyer | 10,595 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | John Wasylenko | 5,171 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Thomas Paton | 3,512 | ||
| 1965 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Paul Hellyer | 9,897 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | John Brazill | 4,375 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Enzo Ragno | 2,773 | ||
| 1968 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Paul Hellyer | 13,126 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | Ed Robertson | 5,360 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Jim De Candole | 4,177 | ||
| 1972 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | Paul Hellyer | 8,518 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Aideen Nicholson | 8,334 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Edward Boucher | 3,725 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Unknown | Norman Freed | 330 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Unknown | Rae Greig | 134 | ||
| 1974 Canadian federal election: Trinity, Toronto | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Liberal | Aideen Nicholson | 10,683 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Progressive Conservative | Paul Hellyer | 6,537 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | New Democratic Party | Jonathan Cohen | 2,637 | ||
| style="background:#Template:Canadian party colour/colour; width: 16px"| | Independent | Martin K. Weiche | 64 | ||
Template:1997 Canadian federal election/Etobicoke—Lakeshore Template:2000 Canadian federal election/Toronto Centre—Rosedale Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
Archives
There is a Paul Hellyer fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[24]
See also
- Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
- Disclosure (ufology)
References
- ↑ "Paul T. Hellyer". https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=paul-t-hellyer&pid=199733354&fhid=7359.
- ↑ "Current Chronological List of Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada". Privy Council Office. http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/chronolog-eng.htm.
- ↑ "The Canadian Parliamentary Companion". 1963. https://books.google.com/books?id=qAbUh7mxKjsC&q=Paul+Theodore+Hellyer+1923.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hellyer, Paul (February 20, 1958). Inflation vs. Unemployment (Speech). The Empire Club of Canada: Speeches 1957–1958. Archived from the original on September 12, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Paul Hellyer". The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-hellyer. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/unification-of-the-canadian-armed-forces [bare URL]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Winnipeg Free Press, January 25, 1969, p. 11.
- ↑ Winnipeg Free Press, January 30, 1969, p. 6. It was noted that Toronto councillor David Rotenberg was a supporter of Hellyer's proposals.
- ↑ Milner, J.B. (1969). "Review of Report of the Federal Task Force on Housing and Urban Development by Paul T. Hellyer". University of Toronto Law Journal 19 (3): 442. doi:10.2307/825051.
- ↑ Lynch, Charles (November 10, 1982). "A Heartbeat From The Top". Ottawa Citizen: p. 3.
- ↑ "Hellyer Quits Cabinet Job". Reading Eagle: p. 47. April 24, 1969.
- ↑ "Who We Are > Our History". http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/WhoWeAre/OurHistory.asp.
- ↑ "Who We Are > Party Policies > National Interest - Public Purse". http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=2&B=1&C=0&D=0&Language=English.
- ↑ "Who We Are > Party Policies > Money". http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=9&B=3&C=0&D=0&Language=English.
- ↑ "UFO Landing Pad" (in English) (archived copy). Heritage Community Foundation Alberta Online Encyclopedia. December 8, 2010. http://www.abheritage.ca/stvincent-stpaul/st_paul/community_UFO_en.html.
- ↑ "Alien technology the best hope to 'save our planet:' ex-defence boss". Ottawa Citizen. February 28, 2007. http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3e57926c-bfeb-4ff3-acf6-50c575ee996c.
- ↑ Coutts, Matthew (January 7, 2014). "Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer says aliens will help humans if we stop wars". https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/former-canadian-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-says-aliens-205829262.html.
- ↑ Cruickshank, John (August 15, 1988). "Play it again, Paul: Hellyer fights to run as Liberal". The Globe and Mail (Toronto, ON): p. A3.
- ↑ (in en) Writers Directory. Springer. March 5, 2016. ISBN 978-1-349-03650-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-xCwAAQBAJ&dq=paul+hellyer+toronto+sun+column&pg=PA554.
- ↑ "Hellyer, Paul T.". https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hellyer-paul-t.
- ↑ "Honourable Paul T. Hellyer, Biography". https://midlandparktoronto.com/uploads/3/4/1/7/34170717/paul_t._hellyer_biography.pdf.
- ↑ "In Celebration of The Honorable Paul Hellyer". Turner & Porter Funeral Directors. https://turnerporter.permavita.com/site/TheHonorablePaulHellyer.html?s=40.
- ↑ Taylor C., Noakes (August 13, 2021). "Former federal defence minister Paul Hellyer dies at 98". https://www.thestar.com/politics/former-federal-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-dies-at-98/article_7f110c26-3614-543d-9f59-9620adea974a.html.
- ↑ "Paul Hellyer fonds, Library and Archives Canada". November 25, 2016. http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=156132&lang=eng.
External links
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- Freeman, Alan (September 9, 2021). "Maverick politician Paul Hellyer was seen as a possible candidate for PM". https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-maverick-politician-paul-hellyer-was-seen-as-a-possible-candidate-for/.
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