Paul Hellyer

Paul Theodore Hellyer PC FRSA ( born August 6, 1923 in Waterford, Ontario ) is a Canadian entrepreneur, engineer, businessman and politician of the Liberal Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and most recently the Canadian Action Party, of more than 23 years a Member of the House of Commons, several times minister, and between 1997 and 2003 Chairman of the Canadian Acion party was.

Life

Career and politician of the Liberal Party

After schooling Hellyer earned a degree, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. Between 1944 and 1946 he did his military service in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Artillery. Later he worked as a civil engineer, entrepreneur and businessman.

In the general election of June 27, 1949 Hellyer was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the deputies in the lower house and represented in this until his election defeat in the general election of 10 June 1957 constituency Davenport. His first government took office in February 1956 Hellyer as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence, before he was in 1957 Minister attached to the Minister of National Defence in the area formed by Prime Minister Louis Saint -Laurent 17 Canadian Cabinet from April 1957 to June.

After he once again missed the re-entry as an MP in the House of Commons at the general election on 31 March 1958 in this constituency, he was elected in a by-election on 15 December 1958 at the constituency Trinity back to the deputies in the lower house.

On April 22, 1963 he was finally appointed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as Minister of National Defence in the 19 Government of Canada, in which he took over the post of transport minister after a cabinet reshuffle on September 19, 1967.

At the party the Liberal Party on April 6, 1968 Hellyer belonged to the circle of candidates for the succession of the party leader Lester Pearson. He was first on the first ballot with 330 delegate votes Second, although the distance to the winners, the then Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau was clear who got 752 votes. In the second round he ended up with just under 465 on the third place among the six remaining candidates, as well as in the third ballot of five candidates with 377 votes then, and he withdrew his candidacy further. Ultimately, the Trudeau prevailed as the fourth ballot and was elected with 50.9 percent of the Chairman of the Liberal Party.

The Office of the Minister of Transport, he retained even after the April 20, 1968 Pearson's successor, Pierre Trudeau had formed the 20th Canadian Cabinet. Just over a year later, Hellyer resigned on April 29, 1969 from his post as Minister of Transport, after there had been differences of opinion about the housing policy of the government.

Political career in the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadia Action Party

After several re- elections Hellyer occurred on 20 May 1971, the Liberal Party from, remained initially as an independent Liberal in the House and was then again elected after his entry into the Progressive Conservative Party in the general election on 30 October 1972 at the constituency Trinity for Members, lost his constituency but two years later, again at the general election on July 8, 1974. During this time he was between December 1972 and September 1974 spokesman for the progressive- conservative opposition party for industry, trade and commerce.

At the Congress of the Progressive Conservative Party on 22 February 1976, he also competed for the succession of Robert Stanfield as party chairman. He was, however, on the first ballot with 231 delegate votes, only fifth among eleven candidates, and in the second ballot with 118 votes only sixth among the eight remaining candidates, after which he withdrew his candidacy further. Finally, Joe Clark was the fourth ballot with 1187 votes just ahead of Claude Wagner, who got 1122 delegates' votes, the new chairman of the Progressive Conservative Party.

In November 1982 he resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party again and was again a member of the Liberal Party, before he left this once again in 1997, founder and first President of the Canadian Action Party was. As such, he led the party as the leading candidate in the general election of 2 June 1997 and 27 November 2000 in which the party but only 17,502 votes (0.13 percent ) and 27,101 votes (0.21 percent ) received and the entry into the House missed. He ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of Etobicoke - Lakeshore (1997) and Toronto Centre - Rosedale (2000 ) by a re-entry as a deputy. In 2003 he finally resigned from the post of chairman of the Canadian Action Party.

Hellyer has written numerous books beyond that dealt in particular with political issues.

Publications

  • Agenda: a plan for action, Scarborough 1971
  • Exit inflation, Scarborough 1981
  • Jobs for all: capitalism on trial, Toronto 1984
  • Damn the torpedoes: my fight to unify Canada's armed forces, Toronto 1990
  • Funny money, Toronto 1994
  • Surviving the global financial crisis: the economics of hope for generation X, Toronto 1996
  • The evil empire: globalization 's darker side, Toronto 1997
  • Stop: think, Toronto 1999
  • Goodbye Canada, Toronto 2001
  • One big party: to keep Canada independent, Toronto 2003
  • A Miracle in Waiting, Toronto 2010 update of Surviving the Global Financial Crisis
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