~14 Alliance MPs form Democratic Representative Caucus (2001)

What the record says

In 2001, in the House of Commons, the record groups eight changes of affiliation, each from the Canadian Alliance to the Democratic Representative Caucus. Eight people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as partial. A partial resolution means the named participants are not established as the whole group. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry May 16, 2001. 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.

Participants

1. Charles (Chuck) Strahl

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-2DD045E5-01

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

2. Gary Lunn

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-14DAAEA4-02

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

3. Jim Pankiw

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-1E09DB2C-03

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

4. Valerie (Val) Meredith

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-B08969D1-04

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

5. Grant McNally

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-EA5B9C7E-05

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

6. Jay D. Hill

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-41DA4DAA-06

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   May 16, 2001

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

7. Deborah C. Grey

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-A0148DB8-07

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   July 2001to the month

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

8. Inky Mark

   CTF-EP-GRP-20010516-5B134FA7-08

   Canadian Alliance→ToDemocratic Representative CaucusTo 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

   July 2001to the month

   Kind of transition

   Departure from caucus

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

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1. ~14 Alliance MPs form Democratic Representative Caucus changed affiliation from Canadian Alliance to Democratic Representative Caucus / Independent in 2001.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Not assessed

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   • Democratic Representative Caucus — Wikipedia

     Wikipedia · record participant rows of drc-alliance-rebellion-2001 already cited to this source: 8 of 8 recorded participants — Charles (Chuck) Strahl; Deborah C. Grey; Gary Lunn; Grant McNally; Inky Mark; Jay D. Hill; Jim Pankiw; Valerie (Val) Meredith · EN

     This citation carries the evidence already attached to this event's participant rows up to the event claim. The source evidences 8 of the 8 participant rows recorded for this event, and the event's own participant count is recorded as an estimate of 14, so the source does not establish the total the claim states.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-GRP-WIKI-DRC-2001 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

2. In 2001, in the House of Commons, the record groups eight changes of affiliation, each from the Canadian Alliance to the Democratic Representative Caucus. Eight people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as partial. A partial resolution means the named participants are not established as the whole group. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry May 16, 2001. 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.

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What happened afterwards

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No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

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  Machine assistance: research entity matching and translation draft

  AI-assisted source discovery, PDF text extraction, entity matching, and French translation drafting produced this private candidate. The contemporaneous House affiliation index records exactly eight MPs in the PC/DR Coalition from September 13, 2001, and Speaker Milliken describes the DRC as eight independent members. The separate earlier Canadian Alliance revolt involved thirteen MPs, five of whom returned before the coalition affiliation was recorded. A human editor must open every source, verify all identities and locators, inspect the underlying contemporary newspaper citations behind the tertiary chronology, distinguish the earlier revolt from this event, and review the bilingual wording before promotion. Promotion does not publish or verify the event.

Revision history

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1. 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 8 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-10FF2A4A0021, 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

2. r3 expanded

   8 of an estimated 14 participants were named from cited sources and attached to this event; resolution status set to 'partial'. 13 Alliance MPs left the caucus during the 2001 revolt: Art Hanger (2 May); Strahl, Lunn, Pankiw, Meredith, McNally, Hill and Gouk (16 May); Solberg, Burton and Fitzpatrick (late June); Grey and Mark (first week of July). Five of them - Hanger, Gouk, Solberg, Fitzpatrick and Burton - accepted Stockwell Day’s readmission offer BEFORE the DRC was founded on 12 September 2001 and so were never DRC members; they are deliberately excluded. The 8 recorded here are those who did not return.

   September 1, 2026

3. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/drc-alliance-rebellion-2001, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/drc-alliance-rebellion-2001, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

4. 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