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Youri Chassin leaves the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus (2024)

September 12, 2024

QuebecProvincialNational Assembly

What the record says

Youri Chassin left the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus on September 12, 2024, and began sitting as an Independent. The cited sources support the affiliation and exact date; motive is not inferred.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Youri Chassin
CTF-EP-000283-01
Coalition Avenir QuébecToIndependentTo the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left a caucus and sat as an independentThe change begins at a party and ends outside every caucus. No party gained the seat. A designation such as “Independent Liberal” or “(Not in Caucus)” is on this side of the line: it describes an alignment, not a caucus membership.What you may rely onWhere the member sat afterwards, and only that. Whether they walked out or were expelled is `voluntary_status`, which is recorded separately and reads unknown on most legs; /coverage has the live share.How it countsCounted as its own figure and never added to the floor-crossing total. They are different acts, and a single number that merged them could not answer either question.
Marked as a label rather than a party: the database has no party row for this side of the transition. Overwhelmingly this means the member sat as an Independent, and there is deliberately no “Independent” party.
Riding
Saint-Jérôme(Quebec)
Effective
September 12, 2024
Kind of transition
Left to sit as an Independent
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Government to the cross benches
Appointment
Not appointed

How rare is this?

6 recorded transitions match leaving Coalition Avenir Québec, joining Independent and at the provincial level, across 6 events and 6 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted September 2, 2026). The most recent is François Tremblay, January 9, 2026 — the 6th on record. The earliest on record is Pierre Dufour, September 5, 2025.

All 6 meet the database's publication standard.
2 of the 6 carry a recorded outcome after the transition; any share must be taken over those 2 and published beside that number.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: we hold Senate events, but none has passed the publication gate.

How the comparable set is defined

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Youri Chassin left the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus on September 12, 2024, and began sitting as an Independent. The cited sources support the affiliation and exact date; motive is not inferred.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Quebec seat-distribution chronology, 2024–2026
  Assemblée nationale du Québec · page Seat-distribution chronology rows for 2024-09-12 through 2026-01-09 · FR
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-ANQ-QC-AFFILIATION-CHRONOLOGY-2026 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Youri Chassin quits CAQ to sit as Independent after criticizing Legault’s government
  Global News / The Canadian Press · September 12, 2024 · record Youri Chassin leaves CAQ to sit as Independent; 2024-09-12 · EN
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-GLOBAL-YOURI-CHASSIN-2024 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Point de presse de M. Youri Chassin, député de Saint-Jérôme
  Assemblée nationale du Québec · September 12, 2024 · section 12 septembre 2024; annonce de siéger comme indépendant et de quitter le caucus de la CAQ · FR
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-ANQ-YOURI-CHASSIN-2024 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

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.

Editorial review passes

Which checks have been run against this record, and what each one concluded. A review that has not happened is shown as pending, never as passed.

fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026
frenchapproved · August 1, 2026
legalapproved · August 1, 2026
living personapproved · August 1, 2026
publicationapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

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

r1 created
Created the exact, source-bound CAQ-to-Independent event for Youri Chassin.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: Quebec
Level: Provincial
Legislature: National Assembly of Quebec
Chamber: National Assembly

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-000283
Revision: 1
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: August 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 3 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

Cite this record

Crossing the Floor. “Youri Chassin leaves the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus (2024)” (CTF-E-000283). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/youri-chassin-independent-2024 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/youri-chassin-independent-2024
Release: 2026-08-01.1
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicence recorded on this release: OGL-Canada-2.0 (project-authored structured data only)

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