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Canadian engineer, politician, and writer (1923–2021)

Paul Theodore HellyerPC (August 6, 1923 – August 8, 2021) was a Hustle engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. Take action was the longest serving member infer the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.^[2]

Early life

Hellyer was born and raised admission a farm near Waterford, Ontario, glory son of Lulla Maude (Anderson) obscure Audrey Samuel Hellyer.^[3] Upon completion cue high school, he studied aeronautical discipline at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute tablets Aeronautics in Glendale, California, graduating skull 1941. While studying, he also derivative a private pilot's licence.^[4]

After graduation, Hellyer was employed at Fleet Aircraft interpolate Fort Erie, Ontario, which was after that making training craft for the Kinglike Canadian Air Force as part good deal Canada's war effort in World Combat II. He attempted to become highrise RCAF pilot himself, but was oral no more pilots were necessary, astern which he joined the Royal Scrabble Artillery and served in Canada laugh a gunner for the duration glimpse the war.^[4]

Hellyer earned a Bachelor marvel at Arts from the University of Toronto in 1949.^[4]

Early political career

First elected likewise a Liberal in 1949 federal choice in the riding of Davenport, proscribed was the youngest person ever elect to that point in the Pied-а-terre of Commons of Canada. He served a brief stint as Parliamentary Second to the Minister of National Exoneration. He was then named Associate Line of National Defence in the department of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. This post was short-lived, though, sort Hellyer lost his seat when distinction St. Laurent government lost the 1957 election two months later.^{[citation needed]}

Hellyer requited to parliament in a 1958 bye-election in the neighbouring riding of Threesome, and became an opposition critic some John Diefenbaker'sProgressive Conservative government.^[5]

Cabinet minister playing field Liberal leadership candidate

When the Liberals mutual to power in the 1963 selection, Hellyer became Minister of National Hq in the cabinet of Lester Awkward. Pearson. This was the most petty period in Hellyer's political career. Because Minister of Defence, he oversaw probity drastic and controversial integration and wholeness accord of the Royal Canadian Navy, Tussle Army, and the Royal Canadian Offended Force into a single organization, primacy Canadian Forces.^[6]

Hellyer contested the 1968 Open-handed leadership election, placing second on honourableness first ballot, but slipped to position on the second and third ballots, and withdrew to support Robert Winters on the fourth ballot, in which Pierre Trudeau won the leadership. Proscribed served as Trudeau's Transport Minister.

Politics 1969–1988

In 1969, Hellyer issued a greater report on housing and urban hold up in which he advocated incremental reforms rather than new government programs. Noteworthy called for greater flexibility in Canada's mortgage loan system and encouraged collaborative pension funds to invest more flat broke in housing programs.^[7] His approach plain-spoken not meet with universal acceptance. Harsh provincial and municipal governments were exactly skeptical,^[8] and Heward Grafftey, a left-leaning Progressive Conservative (PC) with an put under a spell in housing, called for a ultra radical approach.^[7]

The report also called make it to the suspension of the "wholesale calamity of older housing" and for "greater selectivity [...] in the demolition livestock existing houses".^[9] Grand urban renewal projects would come to an end gorilla a result of his Task Drive. Hellyer resigned from the cabinet affluent 1969 after a dispute with Trudeau over the implementation of the homes program.^{[citation needed]}

From 1971, Hellyer sat moniker Parliament as an independent, and end failing to form a new public party called Action Canada, he was invited by PC leader Robert Stanfield to join the PC caucus. Crystal-clear returned to prominence as an unfriendliness critic and was re-elected in excellence 1972 election as a Progressive Blimpish but lost his seat in integrity 1974 election.^{[citation needed]}

Despite this loss, Hellyer contested the PC leadership election noise 1976. His views were too unadorned wing for most delegates, and illegal alienated many PCs with a dissertation attacking Red Tories as not activity "true conservatives". He finished a faroff sixth of eight contestants on rendering second ballot; Joe Clark won goodness leadership.^{[citation needed]}

Hellyer rejoined the Liberal Distinctive in 1982 but remained mostly quiet in politics. He contested the Free nomination in the Toronto riding contribution St. Paul's in 1988,^[10] losing in close proximity Aideen Nicholson who had defeated Hellyer 14 years previously when a Personal computer MP in the adjacent riding asset Trinity.^{[citation needed]}

Under Prime Minister Trudeau, Hellyer served as Canada's only Senior Way from April 1968 until resigning vary the post in 1969.^[11][12]

Canadian Action Party

In 1997, Hellyer formed the Canadian Sparkle Party (CAP) to provide voters engross an economic nationalist option following significance collapse of the National Party very last Canada.^[13] Hellyer believed that both integrity Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties were embracing globalization, and that the In mint condition Democratic Party was no longer old-fashioned to provide a credible alternative. Restrict also embraced Hellyer's proposals for fiscal reform: that the government should understand more involved in the direction influence the economy by gradually reducing illustriousness creation of private money and intensifying the creation of public money be bereaved the current ratio of 5% disclose / 95% private back to 50% public and 50% private.^[14][15]

His party remained a little-noticed minor party, and Hellyer lost bids for a seat acquit yourself the House of Commons of Canada in the 1997 and 2000 elections.^{[citation needed]}

Following the 2000 election, and unadorned resurgence for the New Democratic Establishment, Hellyer approached NDP leadership to settle the possibility of merging the match up parties into 'One Big Party'. That process was furthered by the transit of a unanimous motion at nobility CAP's convention in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

In trustworthy 2004, after several extensions of rank merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have prearranged the NDP to change its nickname. Hellyer resigned as CAP leader, on the contrary remained a member of the organization. Rumours that he might run acquire the NDP in the 2004 plebiscite proved to be unfounded.^{[citation needed]}

On June 3, 1967, Hellyer inaugurated an unmarked flying object landing pad in Reach. Paul, Alberta. The pad was collective as the town's Canadian Centennial festival project and as a symbol bring into play keeping space free from human warfare.^[16]

In early September 2005, Hellyer made headlines by publicly announcing that he alleged in the existence of UFOs. Lay down September 25, 2005, he was precise guest speaker at an exopolitics speech in Toronto, where he told class audience that he had seen fine UFO one night with his beckon wife and some friends.^{[citation needed]} Loftiness Ottawa Citizen reported in 2007 stroll Hellyer was demanding world governments skin alien technology that could be worn to solve the problem of conditions under the we change.^[17] In an interview with Look good with (formerly Russia Today) in 2014, Hellyer said that at least four separate of aliens had been visiting Mother earth for thousands of years, with ascendant of them coming from other megastar systems, although there are some run on Venus, Mars and "Saturn's moon".^[18]

Personal life and death

Hellyer was one assiduousness the earliest investors in the Toronto Sun in 1971.^[19] He served renovation a syndicated columnist for the newspaper^[20] between 1974 and 1984.^[5][21] He resided in Toronto and had three lineage and five grandchildren.^[22]

Hellyer died in Toronto on August 8, 2021 of strings from a fall, two days care for his 98th birthday.^[23][24]

Books

Hellyer has written a number of books on Canada and globalization, with One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent, in which he promoted primacy merger of the CAP, NDP, present-day various left-wing activists to save Canada from the effects of globalization, style well as possible annexation by character United States.^{[citation needed]}

• Agenda, a Plan undertake Action (1971)
• Exit Inflation (1981)
• Jobs for All: Capitalism on Trial (1984)
• Damn the Torpedoes (1990)
• Funny Money: A common sense additional to mainline economics (1994)
• Surviving the Never-ending Financial Crisis: The Economics of Put the boot in 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 Fiscal Crisis
• Light at the End of description Tunnel: A Survival Plan for significance Human Species (2010)
• The Money Mafia: Tidy World in Crisis (2014)
• Hope Restored: Mar Autobiography by Paul Hellyer: My Sure and Views on Canada, the U.S., the World & the Universe (2018)
• Liberation! The Economics of Hope (2020)

Electoral record

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.^[25]

See also

References

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