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thank you very much Courtney I was a

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different kind of minister actually

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generous introductions like that remind

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me of something General Eisenhower said

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that's like chewing gum you can taste it

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for a minute or two but for heaven's

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sake don't swallow it more actually like

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this small boy who fell headfirst into a

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barrel of molasses and when they pulled

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them out he licked some of the molasses

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from his face and said Lord make my

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tongue adequate to this occasion hmm

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well actually I have the advantage that

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Courtney told me what I should say today

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and what I shouldn't say and that's a

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big help but he also said that it

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towards the end of my speech I could say

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what I wanted to say hmm

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so I'm going to take him up on that

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invitation when I get towards the back

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side of it a bit of a throat problem so

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I hope I'll be able to get around that

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I'd like to start with a story that I

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find kind of interesting and you might

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which is about perspective Sherlock

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Holmes and dr. Watson went on a camping

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trip after a good meal and a bottle of

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wine they lay down for the night and

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went to sleep some hours later Holmes

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awoke and nudged his faithful friend

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Watson look up in the sky and tell me

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what you see

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Watson replied I see millions and

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millions of stars what does that tell

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you asked Holmes Watson pondered for a

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minute and replied astronomically it

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tells me that there are millions of

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galaxies and potentially billions of

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astrologically I observed that Saturn is

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Anil hora logically I did use at the

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time is approximately a quarter past

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three theologically I can see that God

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is all-powerful and that we are small

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Meteor logically I suspect that we will

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have a clear and sunny day tomorrow what

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does it tell you Holmes Holmes was

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silent for a minute then spoke Watson

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you idiot

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somebody has stolen our tent so when

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you're talking about these things you

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can have quite different perceptions

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depending on your worldview well as a

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result of the notoriety gained by the

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dubious distinction of being the first

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person of cabinet rank and the g8 group

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of countries to speak out and say that

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UFOs are real no qualifications they are

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as real as the airplanes flying over

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your head I was able to meet some very

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interesting people that I probably

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wouldn't well I certainly wouldn't have

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met otherwise

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one was that guriccho

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Apollo astronaut he was coming to

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Toronto to make a speech so he let it be

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known that he would be interested in

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meeting me and so my wife was with me

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here today was gallant enough to say

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let's invite him for dinner so we did

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and he came with his escort and we had

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three marvelous hours discussing his

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career his career as an astronaut his

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epiphany and his deep deep concern now

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for the future of our planet I had the

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honor of sharing a platform with him at

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a Knicks conference in Washington in

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April of this year and the introduction

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to his talk was quite intriguing he

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asked us to take our minds back a

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hundred years to the time when the

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Wright brothers were trying to get an

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and then planes were developed larger

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and larger we got to the Douglas dc-3

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which was the queen of the skies and

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sort of the ultimate in air travel and

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then faster and bigger planes turboprops

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jet planes supersonic planes and finally

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putting people on the moon all in the

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space of less than one century so have

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you ever thought ahead because this is

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only the beginning of you ever thought

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what it will be like a hundred years

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from now or even a thousand years from

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now assuming of course that in the

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meantime we don't make the planet

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uninhabitable which is our current

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reading Colonel Courcelles book was a

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real eye-opener for me ahead of course

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received reports of UFO sightings when I

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was Minister of National Defense and

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like most people in that position

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about 80 percent were natural phenomena

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and 15 or 20 percent were not and just

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carsales book was an eye-opener and when

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it was confirmed by a retired United

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States Air Force general of my

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acquaintance as being every word is true

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quote-unquote and more and then spending

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some time with him discussing both some

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of the basics and the end more I decided

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that I had to say something about it in

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government I was just too busy I was

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responsible as some of you may know for

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unifying the Royal Canadian Navy the

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Royal Canadian Air Force and the

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Canadian Army into a single armed force

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for Canada and if you don't think that's

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a tough tense job I recommend you try

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and get the job the Secretary of Defense

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in Washington and try unifying the US

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Army Navy and Air Force and I wish you

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luck but by the time I got out of that

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job I was as Courtney said neither

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convinced I neither believed nor

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disbelieved I just didn't know and I was

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far too busy to to worry about it

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but then after I read Corsos book that

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my general friend confirmed it he

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confirmed a lot of things that are now

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widely known and I'd like to read some

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of them a UFO did crash at Roswell New

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Mexico on or about July the 4th 1947

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there were humanoid creatures aboard

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when it crashed of course it was not at

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the crash scene at the time and did not

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personally see the survivor that was

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carried into the Army Air Force

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infirmary that he writes about in his

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book he did later however see one of the

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cadavers being transported presumably

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for autopsy the Colonel's personal

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involvement really began more than a

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decade later when he was posted to the

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Pentagon and his boss the leftenant

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General Arthur Trudeau gave him the

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foreign technology desk and turned over

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the top-secret Roswell files and a file

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of wreckage a cabinet of wreckage that

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which had been collected from the crash

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site in New Mexico and Trudeau asked him

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to make a list of those areas where he

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thought something might be developed

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which would be of use to the United

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States Army so he did and the list as it

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developed included the following image

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intensifiers which ultimately became

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night vision I had the privilege of

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attending one of the first

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demonstrations although I didn't know at

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the time

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where the technology had come from fiber

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optics which have revolutionized