Amanda Simard leaves the Ontario Progressive Conservatives (2018)

What the record says

Amanda Simard left the Progressive Conservative caucus and began sitting as an Independent on November 29, 2018. She did not join the Ontario Liberal Party until January 16, 2020.

Participants

1. Amanda Simard

   CTF-EP-000278-01

   Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario→ToIndependentTo 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

   not recorded

   Effective

   November 29, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Left to sit as an Independent

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

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1. Amanda Simard left the Ontario Progressive Conservative caucus to sit as an Independent on November 29, 2018.

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   affiliation_change

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   Concerns a living person

   • Amanda Simard — Profil de députée

     Assemblée législative de l’Ontario · section Parti; Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario; Députée indépendante; Parti libéral de l'Ontario; Parlement 42 · FR

     The French Assembly profile gives the November 29, 2018 Independent start.

     Archived copy — May 15, 2026

     CTF-S-OLA-SIMARD-ROLES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Amanda Simard — Member profile

     Legislative Assembly of Ontario · section Party; Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario; Independent Member; Ontario Liberal Party; Parliament 42 · EN

     The Assembly profile gives the November 29, 2018 Independent start.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-OLA-SIMARD-ROLES · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

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No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Corrections to this record

• Permanent citation address did not resolve

  The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/id/events/CTF-E-000278. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/amanda-simard-2018, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000278) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.

  September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000278

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

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1. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /id/events/CTF-E-000278, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/amanda-simard-2018, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

2. r1 created

   Created the separately sourced 2018 Progressive Conservative-to-Independent Amanda Simard event.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier