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Hon. Paul Hellyer on ‘X’ Zone Hot Seat 73
Rob McConnell interviews
the Honorable Paul
Hellyer, former Canadian
Minister of Defense and
Deputy Prime Minister
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In my book I list a whole bunch of, of headlines
of projects that are starting, you know, for more
building in the Beaufort Sea, and off
Newfoundland and in the Gulf of Mexico, more
fracking, more extensions to, to the tar sands
and so on.
RM: Mr. Hellyer, we have to take a
commercial break Sir, please standby. It’s great
having you on the show Sir, and once again, I’m government should start telling the truth about information that what’s going on in their own
sure, from Canadians from the east coast to the them instead of, of telling, uh, telling constant country. And so it was um, at that point that I
west coast, thank you for your service to this lies. You know, this, this…how I got involved said I have a responsibility to people everywhere
country. We’ll be back on the other side of this was really accidental. There was a young chap to get this out into the public domain. So, before
commercial break with the Right Honourable from Ottawa, bilingual chap, Pierre Juneau, and I decided to uh, go public, I had to do two things.
Paul Hellyer, the former Deputy Prime Minister uh, he sent me information on this subject and I I got the Generals number from my nephew
of Canada right here on The ‘X’ Zone as we was honest with him and said, “Pierre, I haven’t because I had met him actually in an [era]
continue from our broadcast centre in Hamilton, got time to read it.” He said, “Well, just put it on exhibit one day and um, so I phoned him and
Ontario, Canada and around the world on the a shelf somewhere and um, and um, eventually before I could even say “Hello. How are you?”
Starcom Radio Network. Don’t go away. maybe you’ll have time.” And he sent me a he said “every word is true and more.” And then
book called “The Day After Roswell,” by he went on to say that, uh, there had been face to
COMMERCIAL BREAK Colonel Philip Corso and I uh, I said I thought face meetings between United States officials
that looked interesting so, um, I intended to read and extraterrestrials from other star systems.
RM: ‘X’ Zone Nation, the Right it in the summer time when I go to Muskoka and And so with that assurance I was prepared to go
Honourable Paul Hellyer is my very special have a holiday and that’s about the only time I but it just happened I was getting married a
guest this hour. His website is have to read. I looked for it in the summer and week from the day of the symposium, and uh, so
www.paulhellyerweb.com. That’s p-a-u-l-h-e-l- couldn’t find it so I took “The Life of Brian,” I had to phone my bride (Sandra Bussiere) who
l-y-e-r-w-e-b.com, AND Mr. Hellyer, as always which I found fascinating. The following year I was the widow of my very best friend ever and
a great pleasure and honour having you on the was looking for another book and couldn’t find the three of them and my late wife had been a
show Sir. Um… it and there starring me in the face was “The foursome for many years…25 years I guess…
HPH: Rob, before you on, dare I correct Day Before…The Day After Roswell.” And so I and so uh, when my wife died, and a we were the
you on one thing? took it…started to read it, and uh, just wasn’t only two left, I asked her if she’d marry me and
RM: Sure. too far into until I came to the conclusion this, she said yes. So I phoned her and she was not
HPH: Canadian Privy Councilors are this is the real thing because I recognized the really wildly enthusiastic about me doing it, but,
not “Right Honourable,” they reserve that for names of the Generals and of the airfields that said, “okay,” and I said “it’ll only be one off,”
Britain, I think Australia, New Zealand…we’re Corso mentioned, they are ones that I and I didn’t really know I wasn’t telling the …
just Honourables. remembered from my days in National Defence my crystal ball wasn’t working that day, so I, I
RM: Alright, I guess I’m old fashioned, and curiously enough, my, my nephew was the went and uh, said that, “UFOs are as real as the
but, “The Honourable Paul Hellyer.” same compound at the time and he came along airplanes flying over your head,” because I
HPH: And before…thank you for and said, “what are you reading?” and I told knew it to be true. And uh, and uh, I thought the
mentioning my website paulhelyerweb.com and him. He said, “Well, I’m a skeptic.” I said, public had the night…the right to know. Well of
maybe I could put in a plug for my book and say “Well, it’s okay for you to be a skeptic, it’s still course, once I had said that, then information
that anybody, is available in all the usual places, a free country, more or less.” And uh, so he went started coming in from all over the world.
but anybody who would like a personally uh, home and a couple of days later he said “I Documents…some classified…some
personal salutation and a personal autographed phoned the General and the General said ‘every unclassified…one book after another…and I
copy can buy it through my website and get the word is true and more. Where can I get a read…I can’t tell you how many books I read
little extra and that’s only limited time until the copy?’” And by then, I had finished the book but, literally dozens over a period…over the last
end of June. and curiously enough a couple of Canadian 10 years and I uh, briefed by some of the best
RM: And that’s at paulhellyerweb.com. ufologists, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird had ufologists uh, in uh, North America, Canada, the
Alright, Mr. Hellyer, you were Deputy Prime invited me to speak at the University of Toronto United States and some uh, one from Britain and
Minister of Canada, you were a Minister, you in September and I had absolutely no intention uh, others, and uh, so I’ve had the chance to sort
were under Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and you of uh, accepting, but I must admit that I of grow into the situation. But coming back to
know, the history is there. You were responsible procrastinate and I just hadn’t got around to this truth business, they, the, extraterrestrial, the
for the unification of the Canadian Armed telling them. UFOs have been coming to Earth for thousands
Forces, where did your interest come Sir, when RM: (Chuckles) of years and that is perfectly clear to me now
it comes to the UFO question…the HPH: So, after I finished the book, I and especially…you know there are biblical
extraterrestrial question? Because, it seems that said to myself, “there are huge issues here, huge references that can only be explained that way,
you’re the only ranking member of any issues. I mean the possibility of the United and uh, there are other things that I, could
government who’s ever come out and said, States Air Force getting us into an intergalactic explain that uh, indicate, beyond question that
“You know what? They’re real!” war or whatever and the American people who they’ve been coming for thousands of years.
HPH: They are real and more people are most directly concerned, um, have the right
should know about them and more people to know about it. They been picking up the tab (Continued on Page 78)
should know more about them and the and they should have, they should have the