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Lori Idlout joins the Liberal Party of Canada (2026)

March 11, 2026

CanadaFederalHouse of Commons

What the record says

The House of Commons records Lori Idlout's affiliation changing from NDP to Liberal on March 11, 2026. The archive does not infer motive or benefit.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Lori Idlout
CTF-EP-000122-01
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
Nunavut(Nunavut)
Effective
March 11, 2026
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 Lise St-Denis, January 10, 2012 — the 4th on record. The earliest on record is Hazen Argue, February 20, 1962.

0 of the 4 meet the database's publication standard; the other 4 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Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.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.

Lori Idlout changed House affiliation from NDP to Liberal on March 11, 2026.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Rôles — Lori Idlout — Actuels et passés
  Chambre des communes du Canada · record Intervalles d’affiliation politique · FR
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-IDLOUT-ROLES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Roles — Lori Idlout — Current and Past
  House of Commons of Canada · record Political Affiliation intervals · EN
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-IDLOUT-ROLES-EN · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changements à la députation — 45e législature
  Chambre des communes du Canada · July 7, 2026 · record Idlout, Lori — NPD à Libéral — 2026-03-11 · FR
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-45-CHANGES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changes in Membership — 45th Parliament
  House of Commons of Canada · July 7, 2026 · record Idlout, Lori — NDP to Liberal — 2026-03-11 · EN
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-45-CHANGES-EN · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)
  House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/party-standings/changes/xml · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
- NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals | CBC News
  CBC News · March 11, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/idlout-crossing-floor-liberals-9.7123443 · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-13132F4F98A5 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
- CTV National News: NDP MP Lori Idlout crosses the floor to the Liberals
  CTV News · March 11, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/03/11/ctv-national-news-ndp-mp-lori-idlout-crosses-the-floor-to-the-liberals/ · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-B2F38F7C5E25 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 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.

Corrections to this record

Permanent citation address did not resolve
The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/en/crossings/lori-idlout-2026. 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/lori-idlout-2026, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000122) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.
September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000122

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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.

r3 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/lori-idlout-2026, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/lori-idlout-2026, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
r2 corrected
Established the exact March 11, 2026 affiliation date from the House ledger and added the first canonical citations.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
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-000122
Revision: 3
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: September 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 7 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. “Lori Idlout joins the Liberal Party of Canada (2026)” (CTF-E-000122). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lori-idlout-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/lori-idlout-2026
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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