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“That’s the one precept every religion has in common. The Golden Rule…None of us practice it. And if we did, a miracle would happen. Joy and justice would be inter-twined in our journeys! And the world we create because we’re writing our own history.
“Then, and then only, will there be light at the end of the tunnel!”
– Paul Hellyer (From his last presentation to Winnipeg. Oct 20, 2016) [1]
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Warm. Friendly. Courageous as hell. Gentle as a warm summer breeze.
Those are the thoughts I have of Paul Hellyer from his last visit to Winnipeg now more than five years ago. He left me and a crowd of well over a hundred people engaged in spite of not having particularly dynamic oratorical skills. Such were the power of the man, his ideas and the urgency with which he learned and taught his ideas to major cities all across the country.
Hellyer was a high profile federal cabinet minister in the 60s. He ran for the leadership of both the Liberal and the Progressive Conservative parties. In the late 90s he founded and led the Canadian Action Party. [2]
Mr. Hellyer was a Canadian nationalist and a political campaigner. He was notable essentially for his critiques of the Free Trade Agreements, beginning with the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s. But he was also a fervent believer in the Bank of Canada remaining a public bank, and remaining the prime lender at low or no rates of interest for major government projects as it was before that focus was removed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1974. [3]
In spite of all his accomplishments, and him also being the longest serving member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, this author can personally attest to the complete lack of interest of a local visit by this man now past his 93rd birthday.[4]
Paul Hellyer has authored fifteen separate books including Agenda, a Plan for Action (1971), Funny Money: A common sense alternative to mainline economics (1994), One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent (2003), The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis (2014), and Liberation! The Economics of Hope (2020)
And now, sadly, as Christmas approaches, Paul Hellyer will not be joining Winnipeggers, or anyone, to greet the holiday season. His long and exciting life came to a close on August 8 of this year.
To mark the passage of a dear member of the Canadian community, and a good friend, we present this tribute in audio made up of the voices of a number of individuals who knew his record and met him. We also include a brief message of his own from an except of our last full interview with him in 2016.
As a bonus, we include on this page a copy of his talk in Winnipeg.
Ronald Stagg is a Professor of History at Ryerson University. He has taught there over three decades. His research interests include Canadian social history and Canadian-American relations, and his teaching interests are in social protest and in the relationship between film and history.
Howard Bertram was a member of the Canadian Action Party, founded and led by Paul Hellyer.
Barrie Zwicker has been a journalist for a time spanning 7 decades. He is also a media critic and a documentary producer. He met Paul Hellyer in person during 9/11 visibility conference in 2004.
Rocco Galati has been a constitutional lawyer for 32 years. He is the Executive Director of the Constitutional Rights Centre Inc. In the past he won multiple suits against the government. Galati was named twice by Canadian Lawyers’ Magazine as one of Canada’s top 25 lawyers.
Grant Cameron is a UFOlogist. His interests have turned to the involvement and actions of the President of the United States in the UFO problem. He has made over 20 trips to the National Archives and most of the various Presidential archives looking for presidential UFO material. HE recently wrote the book, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT UFO STORY: The Wilbert Smith Files.
Victor Viggiani is the News Director of Zland Communications an international news service, and a close friend to Paul Hellyer.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 337)
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Notes:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MndOxRLBg0&t=109s
- Taylor C. Noakes (Aug 13, 2021), ‘Former federal defence minister Paul Hellyer dies at 98’, The Canadian Press; https://www.thestar.com/politics/2021/08/13/former-federal-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-dies-at-98.html?rf
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-sovereignty-the-free-trade-agreements-and-the-money-mafia-a-conversation-with-paul-hellyer/5532851
- “Current Chronological List of Members of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada”. Privy Council Office. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
