Michel Chartrand was a Canadian trade union leader from Quebec.
22 Facts About Michel Chartrand
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Michel Chartrand was president of the CSN Montreal central council until 1978.
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Michel Chartrand promoted progressive values and syndicalism in the media until the end of his life.
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Michel Chartrand is considered to have been a promoter of socialism, a severe critic of capitalism, and a leading figure of syndicalism in Quebec.
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Michel Chartrand was married to feminist writer and union activist Simonne Monet-Chartrand.
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Michel Chartrand is reported to have joined the Canadian Officer Training Corps in 1941 following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.
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Michel Chartrand protested that the Canadian Army documents were only in the English language and returned to the Trappists' monastery in the village of Oka, Quebec.
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Michel Chartrand lost in a landslide to his Liberal Party of Canada opponent.
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In 1954, Michel Chartrand stood for election to the post of secretary-general of the union but was defeated by Jean Marchand.
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Michel Chartrand was appointed a Quebec delegate to the party's convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Michel Chartrand was the party's candidate in the Chambly riding in the 1956 provincial election, but was badly defeated.
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Michel Chartrand ran for the CCF in the Longueuil district in the 1953 and 1957 federal elections.
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Michel Chartrand ran for the same party in the Lapointe district in the 1958 federal election.
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Michel Chartrand's frustration became evident through his increasingly extremist statements, and in 1959, the union forced him to resign from its executive committee.
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Michel Chartrand was then hired to work at the printing office of the Parti social-democratique, and was again a delegate to the CCF's convention in Winnipeg.
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An admirer of the communist revolution in Cuba and its leader Fidel Castro, in 1963 Michel Chartrand accompanied a group on a month-long visit to Cuba.
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Michel Chartrand then helped found the Parti socialiste du Quebec, and, as its president, soon began supporting the Quebec sovereignty movement, the Rassemblement pour l'independance nationale.
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In 1968, Michel Chartrand was elected president of the Montreal Central Council of the Confederation des syndicats nationaux, serving in that position until 1978.
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On 15 October 1975, five years after the October Crisis, FLQ and Front de rassemblement d'action populaire members and supporters met at the Paul-Sauve Centre in Montreal where Michel Chartrand addressed the crowd.
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Michel Chartrand represented the Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste against Lucien Bouchard in Jonquiere, finishing third with 14 per cent of the votes.
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Michel Chartrand was the subject of a 1991 National Film Board of Canada documentary Un homme de parole.
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Michel Chartrand had a small acting role in the 1970 comedy film Two Women in Gold.