Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude Blanchet


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The result was   delete. (soft) slakr  \ talk / 23:30, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Claude Blanchet

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The only source in this article is in regard to the subject being called for a hearing, which fits ONEEVENT. Fails WP:GNG. Even with proper sources, his only notability seems to be in the fact that he is the spouse of Pauline Marois, there is no real, in depth coverage of the subject. ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  02:47, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * In theory, the primary claim of notability here is his past position as CEO of two major financial institutions in Quebec — but his actual notability has not been adequately demonstrated by the use of reliable sources, and he doesn't get an automatic presumption of notability just for leading a company even in the absence of solid sourcing. Most of the other people who've led the Fonds de solidarité FTQ before or after him don't have Wikipedia articles, and while some of the other people who've led the Société générale de financement do, they also have much more substantial articles cited to a much more substantive array of sources than this, and much stronger claims of notability than just the SGF alone. And since notability is not inherited, he doesn't get a presumption of notability just for being the spouse of someone notable either. No prejudice against future recreation if somebody can write a good and properly sourced article about him, but this version is a delete. Bearcat (talk) 05:36, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
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 He is only the "spouse of Pauline Marois". I wonder if the same attitude would prevail if a stub were started for Michelle Obama. Would there be a call for its deletion because she is only "the spouse of the President of the USA"?

The stub on Claude Blanchet should be allowed to stand, because as the "spouse" of a now former "premier ministre" (English: Premier) of a province the size of 3 European countries, he is more than sufficiently "notable". His links to Campeau Corporation and thus to Power Corporation of Canada are also extremely important, because that latter multinational corporation is renowned for financing the election campaigns of a series of Prime Ministers of the federal Parliament of Canada. Anything Power Corporation does in Quebec, and in Canada, is extremely noteworthy and needs to be documented, precisely because of all their strings attached to the people and levers behind political "power" in Canada.

In fact, it is probably little known, but factually supported, that the PARTI QUEBECOIS, led by Marois until the recent election, was ordained to be set up by a group of federal Liberal cabinet ministers in the Lester Pearson government of Canada, while meeting in 'secret committee' on the premises of Power Corporation of Canada in 1967, i.e., their Montreal shipping building for Canada Steamship Lines. Therefore, again, the links of CLAUDE BLANCHET to Marois (leader of the same PARTI QUEBECOIS), are important because he is also linked to POWER CORPORATION and the creation of the PARTI QUEBECOIS by RENE LEVESQUE on the "encouragement" if not "instructions" of the federal LIBERAL GOVERNMENT operating out of POWER CORPORATION business premises. This therefore means that POWER CORPORATION is linked to the LIBERALS, and that both are linked to the creation and set-up of the PARTI QUEBECOIS, a political party whose GOAL is to destroy Canada. Research into the referendums launched by this party in 1980 and 1995 indicates that the goal was to replace Canada with a new regional system matching that underway in Europe since the 1950s.

The chapter documenting the decision taken by the federal Liberals on the premises of Power Corporation to set up a 'separatist' party is available in both French and English:

[1] "The secret committee at Power" http://www.calameo.com/books/000111790f1bc6388c506

[2] "Dans L'oeil de l'Aigle - Le «Comité secret» de Power (1967)" http://www.calameo.com/books/00011179030fd555d1a92

When a multinational corporation is involved in setting up a political party to destroy a country, and the wife of one of its own employees (CLAUDE BLANCHET) ends up leading that party, everyone linked to that corporation, including BLANCHET, is sufficiently "notorious" to deserve an in-depth public biography.

I would therefore strongly suggest that the stub on CLAUDE BLANCHET should be maintained, the deletion request should be cancelled, and a request for more details should be substituted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.202.72.99 (talk) 18:40, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * My response to your essay is simply that Notability is not Inherited, and since there are no reliable sources (sorry, in my opinion something published on Calameo that does not cite reliable sources is like linking to someone's opinion on Facebook), he has no notability in an encyclopaedia. ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  01:39, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Being the First Lady of the United States is a notable, well-defined public role, which garners more than enough coverage in reliable sources to qualify its holders for articles — Michelle Obama has an article because she, herself, is notable in her own right, and not just because her husband is notable. The spouse of a provincial premier (or a US state governor), however, is not an equivalently notable role — a person who happens to be married to a premier of Quebec might also be independently notable, but is not entitled to an article just because of their marriage. If you cannot demonstrate that Blanchet would be sufficiently notable for a Wikipedia article independently of whomever he happened to be married to, then he is not sufficiently notable for a Wikipedia article. And your conspiracy theory about Power Corporation and the Liberal Party of Canada, while impressive, has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Blanchet meets our inclusion rules. Bearcat (talk) 19:16, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


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