Editing Radical centrism (section)

=== Canada ===

In the late 1970s, Prime Minister [[Pierre Trudeau|Pierre Elliott Trudeau]] claimed that his [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] adhered to the "radical centre".<ref name=Graham>Graham, Ron, ed. (1998). ''The Essential Trudeau''. McClelland & Stewart, p.&nbsp;71. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-8591-8}}.</ref><ref>Thompson, Wayne C. (2017). ''Canada 2017–2018''. Rowman & Littlefield, p.&nbsp;135. {{ISBN|978-1-4758-3510-6}}.</ref> One thing this means, Trudeau said, is that "sometimes we have to fight against the state".<ref name=Graham /> [[Paul Hellyer]], who served in Trudeau's first cabinet and spent over half a century in Canadian political life,<ref name=Blaikie>[[Bill Blaikie|Blaikie, Bill]] (2011). ''The Blaikie Report: An Insider's Look at Faith and Politics''. United Church Publishing House / [[United Church of Canada]], pp.&nbsp;96–97. {{ISBN|978-1-55134-188-0}}.</ref> {{#tag:ref|In 1997, forty-eight years after first being elected to the [[Parliament of Canada|Canadian Parliament]], Hellyer founded a minor political party, the [[Canadian Action Party]].<ref name=Blaikie />|group="nb"}} said in 2010, "I have been branded as everything from far left to far right. I put myself in the radical centre – one who seeks solutions to problems based on first principles without regard to ideology. I believe that it is the kind of solution the world desperately needs at a time when niggling change or fine tuning is not good enough".<ref>Hellyer, Paul (2010). ''Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species''. AuthorHouse, p.&nbsp;xi. {{ISBN|978-1-4490-7613-9}}.</ref>