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{{Short description|Canadian engineer, politician, and writer (1923–2021)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Paul Hellyer
| birth_name          = Paul Theodore Hellyer
| honorific-suffix    = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}}
| image               = Paul Hellyer portrait.jpg
| imagesize           = 
| caption             = Hellyer, {{circa|1967}}
| office              = [[Minister of Transport (Canada)|Minister of Transport]]
| primeminister       = [[Lester B. Pearson]]<br />[[Pierre Trudeau]]
| term_start          = September 19, 1967
| term_end            = April 30, 1969
| predecessor         = [[Jack Pickersgill]]
| successor           = [[James Armstrong Richardson]]
| office1             = [[Senior Minister (Canada)|Senior Minister]]
| primeminister1      = [[Pierre Trudeau]]
| term_start1         = April 30, 1968
| term_end1           = April 23, 1969
| predecessor1        = ''Office established''
| successor1          = ''Vacant''
| office2             = [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]]
| primeminister2      = [[Lester B. Pearson]]
| term_start2         = April 22, 1963
| term_end2           = September 18, 1967
| predecessor2        = [[Gordon Churchill]]
| successor2          = [[Léo Cadieux]]
| riding3             = [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity]]
| parliament3         = Canadian
| term_start3         = December 15, 1958
| term_end3           = July 7, 1974
| predecessor3        = [[Edward Lockyer]]
| successor3          = [[Aideen Nicholson]]
| riding4             = [[Davenport (federal electoral district)|Davenport]]
| parliament4         = Canadian
| term_start4         = June 27, 1949
| term_end4           = June 9, 1957
| predecessor4        = [[John Ritchie MacNicol]]
| successor4          = [[Douglas Morton (politician)|Douglas Morton]]
| party               = [[Canadian Action Party]] (1997–2017)
| otherparty          = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] (1949–1971, 1982–1997),<br /> [[Independent politician|Independent]] (1971),<br />[[Action Canada]] (1971–1972),<br />[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] (1972–1982)
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1923|8|6}}
| birth_place         = [[Waterford, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2021|8|8|1923|8|6}}
| death_place         = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| spouse              = {{Marriage|Ellen Jean Ralph|1945|2004|reason=died}} <br />{{Marriage|Sandra Bussiere|2005}}<ref>{{cite web | website=The Toronto Star at Legacy.com| url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=paul-t-hellyer&pid=199733354&fhid=7359 | title=Paul T. Hellyer | access-date=August 16, 2021}}</ref>
| children            = 2 sons, 1 daughter
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = [[University of Toronto]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| profession          = Engineer
| branch              = [[File:Canadian_Red_Ensign_(1921%E2%80%931957).svg|20px]] [[Canadian Army]]
| serviceyears        = 1944–1946
| rank                = [[File:Canadian_Army_OR-3.svg|20px]] [[Private (rank)|Gunner]]
| unit                = [[Royal Canadian Artillery]]
}}

'''Paul Theodore Hellyer''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (August 6, 1923 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the [[List of current members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada#St. Laurent|longest serving]] member of the [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada]] at the time of his death.<ref>{{cite web|title = Current Chronological List of Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada|url = http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/chronolog-eng.htm|publisher = [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|Privy Council Office]]|access-date = June 17, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160215221747/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres%2Fchronolog-eng.htm|archive-date = February 15, 2016|url-status = dead}}</ref>

==Early life==
Hellyer was born and raised on a farm near [[Waterford, Ontario]], the son of Lulla Maude (Anderson) and Audrey Samuel Hellyer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAbUh7mxKjsC&q=Paul+Theodore+Hellyer+1923|title = The Canadian Parliamentary Companion|year = 1963}}</ref> Upon completion of high school, he studied [[aeronautical engineering]] at the [[Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute|Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics]] in [[Glendale, California]], graduating in 1941. While studying, he also obtained a private pilot's licence.<ref name=empireclub>{{cite speech
 |url         = http://empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=1926&FT=yes
 |title       = Inflation vs. Unemployment
 |publisher   = Speeches 1957–1958
 |date        = February 20, 1958
|location    = The Empire Club of Canada
 |access-date  = September 1, 2019
|first       = Paul
 |last        = Hellyer
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070912121033/http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=1926&FT=yes
 |archive-date = September 12, 2007
}}</ref>

After graduation, Hellyer was employed at [[Fleet Aircraft]] in [[Fort Erie, Ontario]], which was then making training craft for the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] as part of Canada's war effort in [[World War II]]. He attempted to become an RCAF pilot himself, but was told no more pilots were necessary, after which he joined the [[Royal Canadian Artillery]] and served in Canada as a gunner for the duration of the war.<ref name=empireclub/>

Hellyer earned a Bachelor of Arts from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1949.<ref name=empireclub/>
[[File:Paul Hellyer 1940s.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Hellyer in his early 20s (circa 1942–1948)]]

==Early political career==
First elected as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] in [[1949 Canadian federal election|1949 federal election]] in the riding of [[Davenport (federal electoral district)|Davenport]], he was the youngest person ever elected to that point in the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. He served a brief stint as [[Parliamentary Secretary|Parliamentary Assistant]] to the [[List of Canadian Ministers of National Defence|Minister of National Defence]]. He was then named [[Associate Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Associate Minister of National Defence]] in the [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet]] of Prime Minister [[Louis St. Laurent]]. This post was short-lived, though, as Hellyer lost his seat when the St. Laurent government lost the [[1957 Canadian federal election|1957 election]] two months later.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Hellyer returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the neighbouring riding of [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity]], and became an opposition critic of [[John Diefenbaker|John Diefenbaker's]] [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] government.<ref name="canenc">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/paul-hellyer|title=Paul Hellyer|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>

==Cabinet minister and Liberal leadership candidate==
When the Liberals returned to power in the [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963 election]], Hellyer became [[List of Canadian Ministers of National Defence|Minister of National Defence]] in the [[Canadian cabinet|cabinet]] of [[Lester B. Pearson]]. This was the most significant period in Hellyer's political career. As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and [[Unification of the Canadian Forces|unification]] of the [[Royal Canadian Navy]], [[Canadian Army]], and the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] into a single organization, the [[Canadian Forces]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/unification-of-the-canadian-armed-forces }}</ref>

Hellyer contested the [[1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|1968 Liberal leadership election]], placing second on the first ballot, but slipped to third on the second and third ballots, and withdrew to support [[Robert Winters]] on the fourth ballot, in which [[Pierre Trudeau]] won the leadership. He served as Trudeau's [[List of Canadian Ministers of Transport|Transport Minister]].

==Politics 1969–1988==
In 1969, Hellyer issued a major report on housing and urban renewal in which he advocated incremental reforms rather than new government programs. He called for greater flexibility in Canada's mortgage loan system and encouraged corporate pension funds to invest more money in housing programs.<ref name="Winnipeg Free Press 1969, p. 11">''Winnipeg Free Press'', January 25, 1969, p. 11.</ref> His approach did not meet with universal acceptance. Some provincial and municipal governments were openly skeptical,<ref>''Winnipeg Free Press'', January 30, 1969, p. 6. It was noted that [[Toronto]] councillor [[David Rotenberg]] was a supporter of Hellyer's proposals.</ref> and [[Heward Grafftey]], a left-leaning [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] (PC) with an interest in housing, called for a more radical approach.<ref name="Winnipeg Free Press 1969, p. 11"/>

The report also called for the suspension of the "wholesale destruction of older housing" and for "greater selectivity [...] in the demolition of existing houses".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Milner|first1=J.B.|title=Review of Report of the Federal Task Force on Housing and Urban Development by Paul T. Hellyer|journal=University of Toronto Law Journal|year=1969|volume=19|issue=3|page=442|doi=10.2307/825051|jstor=825051}}</ref> Grand urban renewal projects would come to an end as a result of his Task Force. Hellyer resigned from the cabinet in 1969 after a dispute with Trudeau over the implementation of the housing program.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

From 1971, Hellyer sat in Parliament as an [[Independent (politician)|independent]], and after failing to form a new political party called [[Action Canada]], he was invited by PC leader [[Robert Stanfield]] to join the PC [[caucus]]. He returned to prominence as an opposition critic and was re-elected in the [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972 election]] as a Progressive Conservative but lost his seat in the [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974 election]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Despite this loss, Hellyer contested the [[1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election|PC leadership election]] of 1976. His views were too right wing for most delegates, and he alienated many PCs with a speech attacking [[Red Tories]] as not being "true conservatives". He finished a distant sixth of eight contestants on the second ballot; [[Joe Clark]] won the leadership.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Hellyer rejoined the Liberal Party in 1982 but remained mostly silent in politics. He contested the Liberal nomination in the [[Toronto]] riding of [[St. Paul's (electoral district)|St. Paul's]] in 1988,<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3627741 CBC News Archives, "Paul Hellyer attempts political comeback in 1988"]</ref> losing to [[Aideen Nicholson]] who had defeated Hellyer 14 years previously when a PC MP in the adjacent riding of Trinity.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Under Prime Minister Trudeau, Hellyer served as Canada's only [[Deputy prime minister of Canada#Senior Minister|Senior Minister]] from April 1968 until resigning from the post in 1969.<ref name="OttawaCitizen-1982-11-10">{{cite news|newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |title=A Heartbeat From The Top |author=Lynch, Charles |date=November 10, 1982 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Reading Eagle]] |title=Hellyer Quits Cabinet Job |date=April 24, 1969 |page=47}}</ref>

==Canadian Action Party==
In 1997, Hellyer formed the [[Canadian Action Party]] (CAP) to provide voters with an economic nationalist option following the collapse of the [[National Party of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/WhoWeAre/OurHistory.asp |title=Who We Are > Our History |access-date=July 27, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009033949/http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/WhoWeAre/OurHistory.asp |archive-date=October 9, 2006 |website=[[Canadian Action Party]]}}</ref> Hellyer believed that both the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties were embracing [[globalization]], and that the [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]] was no longer able to provide a credible alternative. CAP also embraced Hellyer's proposals for monetary reform: that the government should become more involved in the direction of the economy by gradually reducing the creation of private money and increasing the creation of public money from the current ratio of 5% public / 95% private back to 50% public and 50% private.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=2&B=1&C=0&D=0&Language=English |title=Who We Are > Party Policies > National Interest - Public Purse |access-date=July 27, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009111624/http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=2&B=1&C=0&D=0&Language=English |archive-date=October 9, 2006 |website=[[Canadian Action Party]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=9&B=3&C=0&D=0&Language=English |title=Who We Are > Party Policies > Money |access-date=July 27, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051201032012/http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/PartyInfo/Policies.asp?A=9&B=3&C=0&D=0&Language=English |archive-date=December 1, 2005 |website=[[Canadian Action Party]]}}</ref>

His party remained a little-noticed [[minor party]], and Hellyer lost bids for a seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1997 Canadian federal election|1997]] and [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000 elections]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Following the 2000 election, and a resurgence for the New Democratic Party, Hellyer approached NDP leadership to discuss the possibility of merging the two parties into 'One Big Party'. This process was furthered by the passage of a unanimous motion at the CAP's convention in 2003.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

In early 2004, after several extensions of the merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have required the NDP to change its name. Hellyer resigned as CAP leader, but remained a member of the party. Rumours that he might run for the NDP in the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 election]] proved to be unfounded.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

==Extraterrestrial intelligence claims==
On June 3, 1967, Hellyer inaugurated an [[unidentified flying object]] landing pad in [[St. Paul, Alberta]]. The pad was built as the town's [[Canadian Centennial]] celebration project and as a symbol of keeping space free from human warfare.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=UFO Landing Pad|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/stvincent-stpaul/st_paul/community_UFO_en.html|date=December 8, 2010|format=archived copy|encyclopedia=Heritage Community Foundation Alberta Online Encyclopedia|language=English}}</ref>

In early September 2005, Hellyer made headlines by publicly announcing that he believed in the existence of UFOs. On September 25, 2005, he was a guest speaker at an [[exopolitics]] conference in Toronto, where he told the audience that he had seen a UFO one night with his late wife and some friends.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} The ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' reported in 2007 that Hellyer was demanding world governments disclose alien technology that could be used to solve the problem of [[climate change]].<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=February 28, 2007 |url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3e57926c-bfeb-4ff3-acf6-50c575ee996c |title=Alien technology the best hope to 'save our planet:' ex-defence boss |access-date=April 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014075201/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3e57926c-bfeb-4ff3-acf6-50c575ee996c |archive-date=October 14, 2011}}</ref> In an interview with RT (formerly [[Russia Today]]) in 2014, Hellyer said that at least four species of aliens had been visiting Earth for thousands of years, with most of them coming from other star systems, although there are some living on Venus, Mars and "Saturn's moon".<!--probably meant Titan--><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/former-canadian-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-says-aliens-205829262.html |title=Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer says aliens will help humans if we stop wars |last=Coutts |first=Matthew |date=January 7, 2014 |access-date=August 12, 2015 |website=[[Yahoo! News]] |url-status=live |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520003719/https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/former-canadian-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-says-aliens-205829262.html}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==

Hellyer was one of the earliest investors in the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' in 1971.<ref>{{cite news|title=Play it again, Paul: Hellyer fights to run as Liberal |author=Cruickshank, John |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |location=Toronto, ON |date=August 15, 1988 |page=A3}}</ref> He served as a syndicated columnist for the newspaper<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-xCwAAQBAJ&dq=paul+hellyer+toronto+sun+column&pg=PA554 |title=Writers Directory |date=March 5, 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-03650-9 |language=en}}</ref> between 1974 and 1984.<ref name="canenc" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hellyer-paul-t |title=Hellyer, Paul T. |website=Encyclopedia.com |url-status=live |archive-date=October 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030185213/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hellyer-paul-t}}</ref> He resided in Toronto and had three children and five grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://midlandparktoronto.com/uploads/3/4/1/7/34170717/paul_t._hellyer_biography.pdf |title=Honourable Paul T. Hellyer, Biography |website=midlandparktoronto.com |url-status=live |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901134328/https://midlandparktoronto.com/uploads/3/4/1/7/34170717/paul_t._hellyer_biography.pdf}}</ref>

Hellyer died in Toronto on August 8, 2021 of complications from a fall, two days after his 98th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://turnerporter.permavita.com/site/TheHonorablePaulHellyer.html?s=40 |title=In Celebration of The Honorable Paul Hellyer |work=Turner & Porter Funeral Directors |url-status=live |archive-date=March 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307040452/https://turnerporter.permavita.com/site/TheHonorablePaulHellyer.html?s=40}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/former-federal-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-dies-at-98/article_7f110c26-3614-543d-9f59-9620adea974a.html |title=Former federal defence minister Paul Hellyer dies at 98 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |date=August 13, 2021 |last=Taylor C. |first=Noakes |agency=The Canadian Press |url-status=live |archive-date=September 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907140956/https://www.thestar.com/politics/former-federal-defence-minister-paul-hellyer-dies-at-98/article_7f110c26-3614-543d-9f59-9620adea974a.html}}</ref>

==Books==
Hellyer has written several books on Canada and [[globalization]], including ''[[One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent]]'', in which he promoted the merger of the CAP, NDP, and various left-wing activists to save Canada from the effects of [[globalization]], as well as possible annexation by the United States.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

*''Agenda, a Plan for Action'' (1971)
*''Exit Inflation'' (1981)
*''Jobs for All: Capitalism on Trial'' (1984)
*''Damn the Torpedoes'' (1990)
*''Funny Money: A common sense alternative to mainline economics'' (1994)
*''Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: The Economics of Hope 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 Financial Crisis''
*''Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species'' (2010)
*''The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis'' (2014)
*''Hope Restored: An Autobiography by Paul Hellyer: My Life and Views on Canada, the U.S., the World & the Universe'' (2018)
*''Liberation! The Economics of Hope'' (2020)

== Electoral record ==
{{1949 Canadian federal election/Davenport}}
{{1953 Canadian federal election/Davenport}}
{{1957 Canadian federal election/Davenport}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|December 15, 1958 by-election following Lockyer's death: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|-
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 5,175
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|Joe Lesniak
|align="right"| 4,404
{{Canadian party colour|CA|CCF|row}}
|[[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|Co-operative Commonwealth]]
|John Elchuk
|align="right"|1,724
{{CANelec|CA|Labor-Progressive|[[Sam Walsh (politician)|Sam Walsh]]|488}}
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1962 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|-
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 9,615
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|Stanley Frolick
|align="right"|6,124
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
|Thomas Paton
|align="right"|3,740
{{CANelec|CA|Communist| [[Leslie Morris]]| 449 }}
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|Peter D'Agostino
|align="right"|295
{{CANelec|CA|Social Credit|David E. Hartman| 227   }}
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1963 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|-
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 10,595
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|John Wasylenko
|align="right"|5,171
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
|Thomas Paton
|align="right"| 3,512
{{CANelec|CA|Communist| [[Leslie Morris]]|391   }}
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1965 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|- {{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 9,897
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|John Brazill
|align="right"| 4,375
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
|Enzo Ragno
|align="right"| 2,773
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1968 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|-
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 13,126
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|Ed Robertson
|align="right"| 5,360
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
|Jim De Candole
|align="right"| 4,177
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1972 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|- {{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 8,518
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|[[Aideen Nicholson]]
|align="right"| 8,334
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
|Edward Boucher
|align="right"|3,725
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}
|Unknown
|Norman Freed
|align="right"|330
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}
|Unknown
|Rae Greig
|align="right"|134
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="6"|[[1974 Canadian federal election]]: [[Trinity (electoral district)|Trinity, Toronto]]
|- style="background:#e9e9e9;"
! colspan="2" style="width: 200px"|Party
! style="width: 170px"|Candidate
! style="width: 40px"|Votes
|-
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal|row}}
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|[[Aideen Nicholson]]
|align="right"|  10,683
{{Canadian party colour|CA|PC|row}}
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
|Paul Hellyer
|align="right"| 6,537
{{Canadian party colour|CA|NDP|row}}
|[[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]]
| Jonathan Cohen
|align="right"|2,637
{{CANelec|CA|Communist| [[William Kashtan]]|234}}
{{CANelec|CA|Marxist-Leninist|Jim Turnbull| 90  }}
{{Canadian party colour|CA|Independent|row}}
|Independent
|[[Martin K. Weiche]]
|align="right"|64
|}
{{1997 Canadian federal election/Etobicoke—Lakeshore}}
{{2000 Canadian federal election/Toronto Centre—Rosedale}}
''Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.''

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There is a [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=156132&lang=eng Paul Hellyer fonds] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paul Hellyer fonds, Library and Archives Canada| date=November 25, 2016 |url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=156132&lang=eng|access-date=September 4, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform]]
*[[Disclosure (ufology)]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{cite web |last1=Freeman |first1=Alan |title=Maverick politician Paul Hellyer was seen as a possible candidate for PM |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-maverick-politician-paul-hellyer-was-seen-as-a-possible-candidate-for/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=June 26, 2022 |date=September 9, 2021}}

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