Old Defence Ministers Never Die...

My Google-Alert service has just informed me that former Defence Minister Paul Hellyer is calling on Parliament to hold hearings into the existence of extra-terrestrials.

It's a good thing I signed up for these things. Otherwise, I would have surely missed such a pressing piece of breaking news. Below is the opener to the news release.

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."

Duly noted. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll make sure to validate your parking on the way out.

(Just wait 'til Norad tracks Santa again this year. It'll blow his mind.)