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Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins the Conservative Party of Quebec (2026)

March 26, 2026

QuebecProvincialNational Assembly

What the record says

Maïté Blanchette Vézina appeared officially in the National Assembly as a member of the Conservative Party of Quebec on March 26, 2026, after an announcement two days earlier. The legacy identifier and slug are retained.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Maïté Blanchette Vézina
CTF-EP-000141-01
IndependentToConservative Party of QuebecFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.
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
Rimouski(Quebec)
Effective
March 26, 2026
Kind of transition
Joined a party
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Not applicable
Appointment
Not appointed
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.
- party nomination — Candidate for La Peltrie
  March 24, 2026 · result: yes · causation: not established · status
  The Conservative Party of Quebec announced Maïté Blanchette Vézina as its candidate in La Peltrie on March 24, 2026, two days before her first official National Assembly appearance under that affiliation. The sequence is documented; causation is not inferred.

How rare is this?

No recorded transition matches leaving Independent, joining Conservative Party of Quebec and at the provincial level (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 2, 2026). That is a statement about this database's coverage, not about Canadian history.

Check GET /api/v2/coverage before concluding: the newest record we hold varies widely by jurisdiction.
No senator appears in the published record: 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.

Maïté Blanchette Vézina appeared officially in the National Assembly as a member of the Conservative Party of Quebec on March 26, 2026, after an announcement two days earlier. The legacy identifier and slug are retained.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Point de presse de Mme Maïté Blanchette Vézina, députée de Rimouski
  Assemblée nationale du Québec · March 26, 2026 · section 26 mars 2026; première présence officielle comme membre du Parti conservateur du Québec · FR
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-ANQ-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Maïté Blanchette Vézina to run in La Peltrie for Éric Duhaime’s Conservatives
  CityNews Montreal / The Canadian Press · March 24, 2026 · record Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins Conservative Party of Quebec and will run in La Peltrie; 2026-03-24 · EN
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-CITYNEWS-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
The Conservative Party of Quebec announced Maïté Blanchette Vézina as its candidate in La Peltrie on March 24, 2026, two days before her first official National Assembly appearance under that affiliation. The sequence is documented; causation is not inferred.
Supported
Field:
political_outcome
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Maïté Blanchette Vézina to run in La Peltrie for Éric Duhaime’s Conservatives
  CityNews Montreal / The Canadian Press · March 24, 2026 · record Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins Conservative Party of Quebec and will run in La Peltrie; 2026-03-24 · EN
  The source supports the literal office or nomination and its timing. Causation and compensation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-CITYNEWS-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

Maïté Blanchette Vézina affiliation sequence
The inherited year-only record collapsed a CAQ-to-Conservative path. It now preserves the legacy identifier for the exact March 26, 2026 Independent-to-Conservative event and adds the September 18, 2025 CAQ-to-Independent event separately.
August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-MAITE-SEQUENCE-2026

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.

r2 corrected
Corrected the inherited year-only Maïté Blanchette Vézina record to the exact March 26, 2026 Independent-to-Conservative event while preserving its permanent identifier and slug.
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: 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-000141
Revision: 2
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: August 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 2 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. “Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins the Conservative Party of Quebec (2026)” (CTF-E-000141). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/maite-blanchette-vezina-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/maite-blanchette-vezina-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)

All records·Coverage·Corrections

Official and independentVerifiedJoined a partyIndividual

Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins the Conservative Party of Quebec (2026)

March 26, 2026

QuebecProvincialNational Assembly

What the record says

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Maïté Blanchette Vézina
CTF-EP-000141-01
IndependentToConservative Party of QuebecFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.
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
Rimouski(Quebec)
Effective
March 26, 2026
Kind of transition
Joined a party
Voluntary
Voluntary
Direction
Not applicable
Appointment
Not appointed
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.
- party nomination — Candidate for La Peltrie
  March 24, 2026 · result: yes · causation: not established · status
  The Conservative Party of Quebec announced Maïté Blanchette Vézina as its candidate in La Peltrie on March 24, 2026, two days before her first official National Assembly appearance under that affiliation. The sequence is documented; causation is not inferred.

How rare is this?

Check GET /api/v2/coverage before concluding: the newest record we hold varies widely by jurisdiction.
No senator appears in the published record: 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.

Maïté Blanchette Vézina appeared officially in the National Assembly as a member of the Conservative Party of Quebec on March 26, 2026, after an announcement two days earlier. The legacy identifier and slug are retained.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Point de presse de Mme Maïté Blanchette Vézina, députée de Rimouski
  Assemblée nationale du Québec · March 26, 2026 · section 26 mars 2026; première présence officielle comme membre du Parti conservateur du Québec · FR
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-ANQ-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Maïté Blanchette Vézina to run in La Peltrie for Éric Duhaime’s Conservatives
  CityNews Montreal / The Canadian Press · March 24, 2026 · record Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins Conservative Party of Quebec and will run in La Peltrie; 2026-03-24 · EN
  The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-CITYNEWS-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
The Conservative Party of Quebec announced Maïté Blanchette Vézina as its candidate in La Peltrie on March 24, 2026, two days before her first official National Assembly appearance under that affiliation. The sequence is documented; causation is not inferred.
Supported
Field:
political_outcome
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Maïté Blanchette Vézina to run in La Peltrie for Éric Duhaime’s Conservatives
  CityNews Montreal / The Canadian Press · March 24, 2026 · record Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins Conservative Party of Quebec and will run in La Peltrie; 2026-03-24 · EN
  The source supports the literal office or nomination and its timing. Causation and compensation are not inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-CITYNEWS-MAITE-PCQ-2026 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

Maïté Blanchette Vézina affiliation sequence
The inherited year-only record collapsed a CAQ-to-Conservative path. It now preserves the legacy identifier for the exact March 26, 2026 Independent-to-Conservative event and adds the September 18, 2025 CAQ-to-Independent event separately.
August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-MAITE-SEQUENCE-2026

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.

r2 corrected
Corrected the inherited year-only Maïté Blanchette Vézina record to the exact March 26, 2026 Independent-to-Conservative event while preserving its permanent identifier and slug.
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: 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-000141
Revision: 2
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: August 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 2 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. “Maïté Blanchette Vézina joins the Conservative Party of Quebec (2026)” (CTF-E-000141). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/maite-blanchette-vezina-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/maite-blanchette-vezina-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)

All records·Coverage·Corrections

What the record says

Participants