Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian
Parliament To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien "Et" Civilizations

Thu Nov 24, 7:00 AM ET

(PRWEB) – OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 — A former Canadian
Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined
forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada
to hold public hearings on Exopolitics — relations with “ETs.”

By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced
extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto
that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer,
Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime
Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes
that fly over your head."

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences
might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say
something."

Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the
Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above
top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a
mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could
be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war
without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has
finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will
put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the
visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

Hellyer’s speech ended with a standing ovation. He said, "The time has come
to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real
and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet
today."

Three Non-governmental organizations took Hellyer’s words to heart, and
approached Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, to hold public
hearings on a possible ET presence, and what Canada should do. The Canadian
Senate, which is an appointed body, has held objective, well-regarded hearings
and issued reports on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage and medical
marijuana,

On October 20, 2005, the Institute for Cooperation in Space requested
Canadian Senator Colin Kenny, Senator, Chair of The Senate Standing Senate
Committee on National Security and Defence, “schedule public hearings on the
Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, so that witnesses such as the Hon. Paul
Hellyer, and Canadian-connected high level military-intelligence,
NORAD-connected, scientific, and governmental witnesses facilitated by the
Disclosure Project and by the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium can present
compelling evidence, testimony, and Public Policy recommendations.”

The Non-governmental organizations seeking Parliament hearings include
Canada-based Toronto Exopolitics Symposium, which organized the University of
Toronto Symposium at which Mr. Hellyer spoke.

The Disclosure Project, a U.S.– based organization that has assembled high
level military-intelligence witnesses of a possible ET presence, is also one of
the organizations seeking Canadian Parliament hearings.

Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), whose
International Director headed a proposed 1977 Extraterrestrial Communication
Study for the White House of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who himself has
publicly reported a 1969 Close Encounter of the First Kind with a UFO, filed the
original request for Canadian Parliament hearings.

The Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, presented by the organizations to a
Senate Committee panel hearing in Winnipeg, Canada, on March 10, 2005, proposes
that the Government of Canada undertake a Decade of Contact.

The proposed Decade of Contact is “a 10-year process of formal, funded public
education, scientific research, educational curricula development and
implementation, strategic planning, community activity, and public outreach
concerning our terrestrial society’s full cultural, political, social, legal,
and governmental communication and public interest diplomacy with advanced,
ethical Off-Planet cultures now visiting Earth.”

Canada has a long history of opposing the basing of weapons in Outer Space.
On September 22, 2004 Canadian

Prime
Minister Paul Martin declared to the U.N. General Assembly,” "Space
is our final frontier. It has always captured our imagination. What a tragedy it
would be if space became one big weapons arsenal and the scene of a new arms
race.

Martin stated, "In 1967, the

United
Nations agreed that weapons of mass
destruction must not be based
in space. The time has come to extend this ban to all weapons…"

In May, 2003, speaking before the Canadian House of Commons Standing
Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs, former Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Canada Lloyd Axworthy, stated “Washington's offer to Canada is not an
invitation to join America under a protective shield, but it presents a global
security doctrine that violates Canadian values on many levels."

Axworthy concluded, “There should be an uncompromising commitment to
preventing the placement of weapons in space.”

On February 24, 2005, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin made official
Canada's decision not to take part in the U.S government’s Ballistic Missile
Defence program.

Paul Hellyer, who now seeks Canadian Parliament hearings on relations with
ETs, on May 15, 2003, stated in Toronto’s Globe & Mail newspaper, “Canada
should accept the long-standing invitation of U.S. Congressman

Dennis
Kucinich of Ohio to launch a conference to seek approval of an
international treaty to ban weapons in space. That would be a positive Canadian
contribution toward a more peaceful world.”

In early November 2005, the Canadian Senate wrote ICIS, indicating the Senate
Committee could not hold hearings on ETs in 2005, because of their already
crowded schedule.

“That does not deter us,” one spokesperson for the Non-governmental
organizations said, “We are going ahead with our request to Prime Minister Paul
Martin and the official opposition leaders in the House of Commons now, and we
will re-apply with the Senate of Canada in early 2006.

“Now is the time for open disclosure that there are ethical Extraterrestrial
civilizations visiting Earth,” a spokesperson for the Non-Governmental
Organizations stated. “Our Canadian government needs to openly address these
important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer space and war
plans against ethical Extraterrestrial societies.”

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CONTACT NOW:
Toronto, Canada: Victor Viggiani, Exopolitics Toronto
Symposium
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Winnipeg, Canada: Randy Kitchur
Tel: 204-582-4424

Washington, D.C.: Dr. Steven Greer, The Disclosure Project
Tel: (540)
456-8302 (Office)
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Vancouver, Canada: Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
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Cooperation in Space
Tel: 604-733-8134
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