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It was imported from the project’s earlier compilation and has not been through verification. It is published so it can be checked and corrected. Do not cite it as established.

UnverifiedLegacy leadChanged party affiliationIndividual

Hazen Argue (1962)

February 20, 1962

CanadaFederalHouse of Commons

What the record says

On February 20, 1962, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of Hazen Argue changes from the New Democratic Party to the Liberal Party of Canada. The event record cites two sources, none of them a primary official record. This entry records the affiliation and its date. It does not record why the change was 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 participants named in the record

Hazen Argue
CTF-EP-000056-01
New Democratic PartyToLiberal Party of CanadaTo 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
February 20, 1962
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded

How rare is this?

4 recorded transitions match leaving New Democratic Party, joining Liberal Party of Canada and at the federal level, across 4 events and 4 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 2, 2026). The most recent is Lori Idlout, March 11, 2026 — the 4th on record. The earliest on record is Peter Ittinuar, December 6, 1982.

1 of the 4 meet the database's publication standard; the other 3 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 4 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.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.

Hazen Argue changed affiliation from NDP to Liberal in 1962.
Pending review
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
Not assessed
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
Concerns a living person
- Wikipedia: Hazen Argue
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — July 20, 2026
  CTF-S-000054 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Hazen Argue - Wikipedia
  UND
  Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000095 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
On February 20, 1962, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of Hazen Argue changes from the New Democratic Party to the Liberal Party of Canada. The event record cites two sources, none of them a primary official record. This entry records the affiliation and its date. It does not record why the change was 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:
High
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.
- Wikipedia: Hazen Argue
  record CTF-E-000056 · UND
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to this affiliation event. It supports the literal affiliation and date only.
  Archived copy — July 20, 2026
  CTF-S-000054 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only
- Hazen Argue - Wikipedia
  record CTF-E-000056 · UND
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to this affiliation event. It supports the literal affiliation and date only.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-000095 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only

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.

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 1 participant row 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 (1/1). 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-82B340036E84, 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 corrected
Date precision upgraded from year (1962-01-01) to day (1962-02-20) using the Library of Parliament PARLINFO record.
September 1, 2026
r2 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/hazen-argue-1962, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/hazen-argue-1962, 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-000056
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, 4 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. “Hazen Argue (1962)” (CTF-E-000056). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/hazen-argue-1962 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/hazen-argue-1962
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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