Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament Asked 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"
   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.

   "Time is on the side of open disclosure that there are ethical
   Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth," The spokesperson
   stated. "Our Canadian government needs to openly address these
   important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer war
   plans against ethical ET societies."

   Canadian Exopolitics Initiative
   http://www.peaceinspace.net

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