The Action Canada movement was an attempt to establish a new political party in Canada in 1971.
Paul Hellyer, who had been a senior cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of prime ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau had quit the Liberal Party after being defeated by Trudeau in the 1968 Liberal leadership convention.
Hellyer sat as an independent Member of Parliament, and attempted to form his own political party to advocate putting more money in circulation to reduce unemployment, and using wage and price controls to prevent inflation from occurring.
The new party attracted little support, and Hellyer later accepted Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield's invitation to join the PC caucus.
In the early 1990s, after having failed win the PC leadership in 1976, and having returned to and left the Liberal Party again, Hellyer again formed a new party, the Canadian Action Party.
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