# Canadian Defense Minister and aliens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751 "2005-11-26T00:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/1 "2005-11-26T00:55:46Z")
> [@Yahoo! News](#): > > 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.” Full text here: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs\_prweb/prweb314382\_1](http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382_1) So, I can see why this guy is a _former_ Defense Minister. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/2 "2005-11-26T05:39:26Z")
So is this why the Canadians refused to help us with the missile defense project? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/3 "2005-11-26T15:52:49Z")
More likely this guy is a ‘former’ because the party he was a member of went out of power years ago and he went with them. Oh, they’ve been back since then, but I think the new guard figured that this guy was a looooooony. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/4 "2005-11-26T22:50:38Z")
Hellyer was defense minister during the Canadian Centennial (1967,) during which he officially presided over the inaugural ceremony opening the [U.F.O. landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta](http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/stpaul.html). Most people regard this as the sort of fluffy tourist attraction that little towns are famous for (like The World’s Biggest Cruller,) but you’ve got to wonder if he was already cracked enough back then to think that he was involved in Something of Earth-Shattering Importance. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/5 "2005-11-26T22:52:18Z")
I guess it falls to me to state that really, not _all_ of us are like this. :o _Most_ of us, but… ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/6 "2005-11-26T23:59:08Z")
Bah. He’s been an inconsequential nutter for over thiry years. There’s no shortage of nutty uncles in the U.S. either. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-defense-minister-and-aliens/332751/7 "2005-11-28T01:16:15Z")
You can see a vid of his speech [here](http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_toronto_exopolitics_symposium.htm) and he’s got noted “nuclear physicist” Stanton Friedman with him!