Global warming just one challenge that could be faced with the extraterrestrial technology, former Liberal defence minster tells Toronto crowd on Saturday.
In his memoirs, former prime minister Lester
Pearson said he would always wonder what might have happened had Paul
Hellyer, not Pierre Trudeau, succeeded him in 1968.
But not in his wildest imaginings could
Pearson have reckoned on the intriguing ways Hellyer would pass the
decades even without the country’s top job.
All going well, Paul Theodore Hellyer — who
first served in a Canadian cabinet 11 prime ministers ago under Louis
St. Laurent — will be 92 this summer.
On Saturday morning, he was keynote speaker at
a Toronto symposium on UFO secrecy, an event that saw about 150 people
gather at a University of Toronto auditorium for the old politician’s
fascinating review of what ails the country, the world economy, the
entire planet.
In short, explained Hellyer, it is a secret
cabal’s stranglehold on the international banking system, humankind’s
failure to adopt the technology available from extraterrestrial
visitors, and to apply it to the climate crisis of global warming.
“Most of us do not know what is going on,”
Hellyer said. And the problem, he said, in the punning way he was famous
for a half-century ago in Ottawa, is that “what you don’t see is what
you get.”
To all appearances, the audience Saturday seemed to get pretty much what it came for.
Those in attendance passed through a lobby
that, on its walls, had exhibits telling the story of doctors Banting
and Best, and on tables beneath had vendors offering copies of Science Was Wrong, Flying Saucers and Science, UFOs and Aliens and, of course, Hellyer’s own books.
Hellyer was raised a devout Baptist, added a
rich baritone to his church choir and studied as an engineer. After
being elected, he served in cabinet for a few months under St. Laurent
in 1957 before becoming defence minister under Pearson. In that
portfolio, he played a key role in changing the Liberal government’s
nuclear arms policy and integrating the Canadian armed forces.
Then things got a little hairy.
Hellyer ran for the Liberal leadership but
lost to Trudeau in 1968, quit Trudeau’s cabinet and the Liberal party a
year later, sat as an independent MP, joined the federal PCs and ran for
their leadership in 1976, when he denounced Red Tories for not being
true conservatives.
After that erratic phase, he tried
unsuccessfully to negotiate the merger of the Canadian Action Party he
founded with the NDP, rejoined the Liberals, made a few more doomed bids
for election before turning his attention to UFOs, grand conspiracies
and such.
Hellyer’s old pal in the Commons, Judy
LaMarsh, with whom he sneaked across Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin
in 1962 in a caper much frowned on by their bosses, once said “he wants
to give people their money’s worth.”
You’d have to think that he did to those who’d ponied up $50 for a ticket on Saturday morning.
At first blush, it could have been a weekend
continuing education class on, say, creative writing, or financial
literacy for retiring baby boomers. But it was rather less banal.
Hellyer said that when extraterrestrials
landed a flying disk in New Mexico — shortly after the end of the Second
World War, a war that established the United States as the most
technologically advanced nation in human history — well, “it was
extremely upsetting” to the Americans to learn there were, in fact,
other societies “light years ahead of theirs.”
Much of what has ensued over the last 60 years
has been an effort to keep the public in the dark about technology
available from ETs, he explained. “Why all the lies and coverup?”
Hellyer said he receives emails by the day from all over the world from people reporting UFO sightings.
From time to time, these visitors have
interfered with control systems of nuclear missile installations on
Earth, he said. The ETs have taken an inventory of earthly goings-on —
“they have the whole picture” — and are not amused by what they see, he
warned.
“It is my opinion that they look at us and say, ‘the children have been playing with matches.’ ”
Our planet is down to a few years, if not
months, to get our house in order, he said. A key window for the massive
monetary reform Hellyer says is needed to free up the resources to
address climate change (in part by collaborating with the
extraterrestrials) is in the final months of President Barack Obama’s
administration, when he has little to fear from bold action.
During a question period after the talk, one
audience member suggested those on hand call themselves “Hellyer-ites,”
the better (assuming, he said with a laugh, that Bill C-51 didn’t
infringe on their activities) to reveal such alarming developments and
demand action.
Though admittedly flattered, Hellyer — who
said he is frequently on radio in the U.S. these days — suggested
something like “Truth-ites” might better fit the bill.
Even the unflappable Mike Pearson, long in his grave, would surely be astonished.
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