When Francis Chartrand was dumped as an NDP candidate, he posted a very angry entry on his blog, calling Jack Layton and the NDP undemocratic.  He alleged that he only found out about the decision through the media, and threatened to hold a news conference to discuss the matter further.

The suddenly that post disappeared, and Chartrand posted another entry.  In this one, he realized he could do more by not being a candidate, and that he fully supported the NDP, and everything was fine.

Then that post disappeared.

I wrote about the strange shifting story, and later that day, the conciliatory post reappeared, but not the angry post.

I wrote about that too.

I decided to go back again, and now the conciliatory post is gone:

This was getting weird.

So I went through his entire blog.  Just about every post is nothing more than a re-posting of NDP press releases or op-eds written by Jack Layton.  There seem to few personal postings actually written by Chartrand.

But I kept going backwards, month by month, and I found an entry in which  Chartrand posted a mechanical translation of his biography that appears in the French language Wikipedia.

The problem is that his entry in the French language Wikipedia no longer exists.  According to the Wayback Machine, the page did exist.  Only one version is archived, dated September 13, 2006.  When you view that archived version, it simply reads "page deleted" in French.

In case someone is planning to delete this entry from his blog, I've posted the entire entry here, as it appears in his blog right now, including the links, broken or not:

Friday, November 17, 2006

Francis Chartrand biography on Wikipedia

Francis Chartrand is militant, an intellectual and a Canadian politician, born on September 8, 1982 in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec.

As a teenager, it quickly became initiated in the world political while becoming activist and militant of left when it was elected president of its coed association at Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes with 69%.

It obtained DEC in Social sciences political and social profile, in Cégep Bois-de-Boulogne, Montreal.

Activism and militancy

He worked in 2002 then with the foundation of the Cafe de la Paix at Saint-Eustache (Quebec), a coffee of street allowing the young people of the street and the least best of secured by profitter of a cordial place like offering a springboard in the company to them. It worked then like speaker and worker of street during nearly one year, which inspired the literary work of Philippe-Simon-Charbonneau, the The street, this paradise.

It militated since 2003 as voluntary with certain organizations and associations coeds of Bank-North to militate against the poverty which particularly touches the young people and less young people in the area of Deux-Montagnes by encouraging voluntariate. It worked as an organizer with coed associations of Polyvalente Deux Montagnes, Polyvalente Sainte-Thérèse and CEGEP Lionel Groulx for the pacifist marchs in March 2003 against the invasion of Iraq, Iraq War (2003-2006).

Since 2004, it always militates for the safeguard of some wooded with Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Saint-Eustache, Boisbriand like with Saint-Joseph-du-lac, and militates for the protection of the ecosystem of the River of the Thousand-Islands and the Lake of the Two Mountains. Then the same year, he becomes technical adviser with the CRUPRUS, an organization which militates in favour of the right to the freedom of expression thus of the duty of which he solves some, where he became acquainted with the committee of survival of the station of radio CHOI FM in Quebec and Jean-François Fillion.
Since the summer 2006, with a handle of militants of left, it collaborates with the Northern group Peace, organization of Lanaudière and of Laurentides following reflected israelo-Lebanese conflict of 2006, in the same direction of nostalgia that divided his/her comrades at the time of the pacifist steps in March 2003 against the invasion of Iraq. It is in the sense that it will receive the Pierre-Phaneuf Price, in October 2006, in Outremont.

political Career [to modify]

In 2006, he is a candidate new-democrat in the district of River-of-Thousand-Islands. He says that he launched out in policy with an aim of attacking the inequalities. Chartrand required that Canada nationalize the oil companies, the airline companies, water, the forests thus industries exploiting the natural resources and it affirmed on the CBC that Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and old East Germany were “good examples”.

It is also in favour of the agreement of Kyoto. It always collaborates with its counterparts of the NPD of the west of Quebec about the development of the wind power in the areas of Argenteuil and Mirabel, where certain regroupings claim 2 wind parks of 100 hectares each one.

It is always active in the promotion of public transport in order to make increase the number of trains between Montreal and Deux-Montagnes while making it possible to the users to have more trains the weekend, as well as the week at the small hours of the morning, to allow a consultation near the local population to be able to supplement the feasibility study to be able to set up a third railway station with Deux-Montagnes for the suburban train around the street Henri-Dunant.

Currently, a consultation near the local population is in hand to be able to supplement the feasibility study to be able to set up a métrobus (line of bus express train) between Boisbriand and the future subway station Montmorency or the terminus the Crossroads in Laval.

It mitita in 2004 with the current mayor of Deux-Montagnes, Marc Lauzon for the safeguarding of some wooded with Deux-Montagnes in order to protect them from the real expansion, considering these wooded is centenaries. Others of these wooded are in its test card so that they are protected.

It had 4448 votes and 9% of the vote at the time of the Canadian federal election of 2006. It will be represented at the time the next federal election.

Recovered of “http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:FrancisChartrand”

posted by Francis Chartrand @ 3:17 AM

As I've pointed out, there is no wiki entry for Franchis Chartrand in the French Wikipedia.  It seems to have been deleted two months prior to Francis Chartrand's post.  Perhaps Chartrand was trying to preserve the biography, or had intended to repost it.  In any case, that means there are only two places right now where you can read about Francis Chartrand's opinions about where Canada needed to go.  One is Francis Chartrand's entry for November 17, 2006, and the other is here on my blog.

I have a feeling that by this time tomorrow, it will only be on this blog.

And let's highlight Chartrand's view of where the NDP ought to be taking Canada:

In 2006, he is a candidate new-democrat in the district of River-of-Thousand-Islands. He says that he launched out in policy with an aim of attacking the inequalities. Chartrand required that Canada nationalize the oil companies, the airline companies, water, the forests thus industries exploiting the natural resources and it affirmed on the CBC that Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and old East Germany were “good examples”.

Well, that's interesting.

Canada under Francis Chartrand's version of the NDP would model itself after East Germany and Venezuela?

Uh...

So does that mean if Canadians started to move to the United States in large numbers to escape the economic chaos that would ensue as a result of all that nationalization...what?  Would Chartrand borrow further from the East German experience and build a wall to keep us in?  Complete with mines and guard towers and orders to shoot to kill?

Would Francis Chartrand's version of the NDP ban all other political parties as was done in East Germany (in 1946, all parties were disbanded or forced to join the National Front of Democratic Germany, a front controlled by the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany).

Would Francis Chartrand's version of the NDP take away the broadcast licenses of media outlets opposed to NDP policies the way Hugo Chavez has done?

Did the NDP get rid of this guy because he was a nut and a potential embarrassment, especially in Quebec, where the NDP is hoping to make a breakthrough?

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