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HPH: Canadian Privy Councillors are not “Right Honourable,” they reserve that for Britain, I
think Australia, New Zealand…we’re just Honourables.

RM: Alright, I guess I’m old fashioned, but, “The Honourable Paul Hellyer.”

HPH: And before…thank you for mentioning my website paulhelyerweb.com and maybe I could
put in a plug for my book and say that anybody, is available in all the usual places, but
anybody who would like a personally uh, personal salutation and a personal
autographed copy can buy it through my website and get the little extra and that’s only
limited time until the end of June.

RM: And that’s at paulhellyerweb.com. Alright, Mr. Hellyer, you were Deputy Prime Minister
of Canada, you were a Minister, you were under Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and you know,
the history is there. You were responsible for the unification of the Canadian Armed
Forces, where did your interest come Sir, when it comes to the UFO question…the
extraterrestrial question? Because, it seems that you’re the only ranking member of any
government who’s ever come out and said, “You know what? They’re real!”

HPH: They are real and more people should know about them and more people should know
more about them and the government should start telling the truth about them instead of,
of telling, uh, telling constant lies. You know, this, this…how I got involved was really
accidental. There was a young chap from Ottawa, bilingual chap, Pierre Juneau, and uh,
he sent me information on this subject and I was honest with him and said, “Pierre, I
haven’t got time to read it.” He said, “Well, just put it on a shelf somewhere and um, and
um, eventually maybe you’ll have time.” And he sent me a book called “The Day After
Roswell,” by Colonel Philip Corso and I uh, I said I thought that looked interesting so,
um, I intended to read it in the summer time when I go to Muskoka and have a holiday
and that’s about the only time I have to read. I looked for it in the summer and couldn’t
find it so I took “The Life of Brian,” which I found fascinating. The following year I was
looking for another book and couldn’t find it and there starring me in the face was “The
Day Before…The Day After Roswell.” And so I took it…started to read it, and uh, just
wasn’t too far into until I came to the conclusion this, this is the real thing because I
recognized the names of the Generals and of the airfields that Corso mentioned, they are
ones that I remembered from my days in National Defence and curiously enough, my, my
nephew was the same compound at the time and he came along and said, “what are you
reading?” and I told him. He said, “Well, I’m a skeptic.” I said, “Well, it’s okay for you
to be a skeptic, it’s still a free country, more or less.” And uh, so he went home and a
couple of days later he said “I phoned the General and the General said ‘every word is
true and more. Where can I get a copy?’” And by then, I had finished the book and
curiously enough a couple of Canadian ufologists, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird had
invited me to speak at the University of Toronto in September and I had absolutely no

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