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UnverifiedLegacy leadChanged party affiliationGroup event

13 Social Credit MPs form Ralliement des créditistes (1963)

1963year only — the day is not recorded

CanadaFederalHouse of Commons

What the record says

In 1963, in the House of Commons, the record groups thirteen changes of affiliation, each from the Social Credit Party of Canada to the Ralliement des créditistes. Thirteen people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as complete. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry September 1, 1963. No source is cited for this event record: it is a legacy lead, kept from an earlier phase of the project because it points at something real, not because anyone has checked it. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.

This is a group event

One event in which several members moved together. It counts as ONE event with several participants, never as several separate crossings.

Counted as one event: 1
Participants named in the record: 13
Head count confirmed editorially: 13

Every participant named

Counting a group event as several crossings is the single largest source of disagreement between published floor-crossing totals. This site counts events; see the counting rules for how to put our figure and someone else’s on the same footing.

How a group event is counted

Participants

13 participants named in the recordEvery participant named

Jean Robert Beaulé
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-A0092F85-01
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-09B52F09-02
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Pierre-André Boutin
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-BE2BA961-03
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
David Réal Caouette
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-5FD008C5-04
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Charles-Eugène Dionne
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-4748577F-05
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Charles-Arthur Gauthier
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-A6655196-06
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Gilles Grégoire
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-D35E19B3-07
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Raymond Langlois
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-C9BE4CF8-08
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Gérard Laprise
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-CE6D3429-09
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Henry P. Latulippe
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-379424D0-10
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Gérard Perron
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-CDA62ED7-11
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Lucien Plourde
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-72C39603-12
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable
Gilbert Rondeau
CTF-EP-GRP-19630901-D265EECD-13
Social Credit Party of CanadaToRalliement des créditistesTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.
Riding
not recorded
Effective
September 1, 1963
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not applicable

Claims and the sources cited for them

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13 Social Credit MPs form Ralliement des créditistes changed affiliation from Social Credit to Ralliement des créditistes in 1963.
Pending review
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
Not assessed
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record participant rows of 13-social-credit-mps-1963 already cited to this source: 13 of 13 recorded participants — Charles-Arthur Gauthier; Charles-Eugène Dionne; David Réal Caouette; Gérard Laprise; Gérard Perron; Gilbert Rondeau; Gilles Grégoire; Henry P. Latulippe; Jean Robert Beaulé; Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger; Lucien Plourde; Pierre-André Boutin; Raymond Langlois — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv lines 39, 40, 91, 135, 237, 292, 328, 467, 477, 480, 670, 682, 752 · MUL
  This citation carries the evidence already attached to this event's participant rows up to the event claim. The source evidences 13 of the 13 participant rows recorded for this event, which is all of them. Auditability caveat carried from the source record: the PARLINFO page renders its rows client-side, so the Wayback capture fixes the query but not the result set. The checkable artifact is the committed extract research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv (882 rows, sha256 5b17f2aeb6835b2d93c456c4feb2f9c5b43f1cb22bed01fa9427a84c8fdd15e4), re-verified byte-for-byte on 2026-09-01.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
In 1963, in the House of Commons, the record groups thirteen changes of affiliation, each from the Social Credit Party of Canada to the Ralliement des créditistes. Thirteen people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as complete. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry September 1, 1963. On 2026-09-01, 1 citation was attached to this record's affiliation claim, drawn from 1 source, and they are recorded as pending review. The editorial status of the record is unchanged: it remains a legacy lead, and no editor has yet stood behind it. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.
Pending review
Field:
summary
Confidence:
Low
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Assumptions: Machine-assembled from this database’s own rows and from no other source. The text restates, as sentences, the participant rows attached to this record: the affiliation recorded on either side of each change, the date at the precision that row carries, the jurisdiction and chamber, whether the change is filed under a group event, and whether the event record behind it carries a citation. No date is printed finer than the row’s date_precision, so a year-precision row yields a year and never a day. Both languages are composed from the same rows rather than translated from one another. No motive, benefit, causation or characterisation of a person appears, and none may be added under this claim.
Counterarguments: Two limits, stated rather than glossed. First, the prose is only as sound as the rows beneath it: where a party link is wrong the wrong party name is printed, and where an event is a legacy lead the sentence repeats an unverified lead — saying so, but repeating it. Second, restating a thin record fluently can make it read as established; the pending status on this claim, and the sentence inside the text naming the evidence state, are the only things that say otherwise. Four label-to-party mappings were deliberately not printed, because the party row’s name did not exist on the date of the event; the underlying links were left untouched and are still visible on the record.
No source is cited for this claim.

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Linked records

component of Social Credit Party of Canada → Ralliement des créditistes (1963-09-01)This event records part of the same real-world episode as the group lead 13-social-credit-mps-1963. Both records describe the same people; participant totals that count them separately will double-count. Recorded so the overlap is explicit rather than hidden.
duplicate of Social Credit Party of Canada → Ralliement des créditistes (1963-09-01)Whole-record duplicate: this PARLINFO record and the legacy group lead 13-social-credit-mps-1963 describe one and the same real-world event - the same single transition (Social Credit Party of Canada to Ralliement des créditistes) on the same effective date, 1963-09-01. Eleven of the thirteen people appear in both records. Neither record is deleted here; the overlap is recorded so that any total counting both will double-count those eleven.

Machine-assisted proposals awaiting a human

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group event reconciliation pending
Machine assistance: research ocr entity matching and translation draft
AI-assisted source discovery, newspaper OCR, entity matching, and French translation drafting produced this private candidate. The later House procedural record assigns September 1 to the collective split, while contemporary Canadian Press reports show eleven named supporters by September 4 and Lucien Plourde still undecided. A tertiary chronology, citing the September 11 Montreal Gazette and Globe and Mail, places Plourde's declaration on September 10. A human editor must open every source, verify the underlying contemporary citations, confirm every participant identity and spelling, and review the bilingual wording before promotion. Promotion does not publish or verify the event.

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

r4 expanded
Wrote summary_en and summary_fr, both of which were empty. The text is machine-assembled from this database’s own rows and from no other source: the 13 participant rows attached to this event, each with the affiliation recorded on either side, the date at the precision that row carries, the jurisdiction and chamber, and whether the event record behind it carries a citation (0/1). No date is printed finer than date_precision. No motive, benefit, causation or characterisation is asserted, in keeping with the published mandate of the automated validator that signs it. Both languages are composed from the same rows rather than translated from one another. The last sentence of the text says, in the text itself, that it was assembled by machine and is pending review, so the disclosure travels with the paragraph through the API and through a copied quotation. The text is recorded as claim CTF-CL-SUM-A8389B73E91A, kind project_analysis, assertion status pending_review. Nothing was copied or paraphrased from any encyclopaedia: the earlier removal of Wikipedia-derived prose from this project is not reversed by this change. Publication status and verification level are unchanged.
September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r3 expanded
13 of an estimated 13 participants were named from cited sources and attached to this event; resolution status set to 'complete'. PARLINFO records exactly 13 Social Credit MPs moving to the Ralliement des créditistes on 1963-09-01. Mid-term (the 1963 general election was 8 April), so the date is genuine.
September 1, 2026
r2 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/13-social-credit-mps-1963, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/13-social-credit-mps-1963, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
r1 created
Imported from the legacy archive as an unpublished research lead. Historical narrative, motive labels, and benefit scores were not treated as verified claims.
July 31, 2026 · Crossing the Floor project maintainer

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: Canada
Level: Federal
Legislature: Parliament of Canada
Chamber: House of Commons

Place and party names on this page come from the institutional tables, never from free text on the record.

Record identifier

Record identifier: CTF-E-000158
Revision: 4
Published: Not published as a verified record
Last verified: Never verified
Record last changed: September 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 2 claims, 1 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

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Crossing the Floor. “13 Social Credit MPs form Ralliement des créditistes (1963)” (CTF-E-000158). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/13-social-credit-mps-1963 (consulted —).

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Release: 2026-08-01.1
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