Conrad later joined Paul Hellyer's economically nationalist Canadian Action Party, and ran under its banner in the 2000 federal election.
Former Minister of National Defence Paul Hellyer wrote that information in the novel seemed sufficiently credible to alter the mandate of a high-profile inquiry into wrongdoing by the RCMP Security Service.
Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer, politician, writer and commentator
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In a 1977 review Paul Hellyer, a former Minister of National Defence, suggested other characters were strongly based on John Starnes, Bennett's boss, Solicitor General Jean-Pierre Goyer, Karl Kristian Ring, who he identifies as an arms dealer.