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Reform Party of Canada → Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (2000-03-27)

March 27, 2000

CanadaFederalHouse of Commons

What the record says

On March 27, 2000, in the House of Commons, the record groups fourteen changes of affiliation, each from the Reform Party of Canada to the Canadian Alliance. Fourteen people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as complete. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were 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.

This is a group event

One event in which several members moved together. It counts as ONE event with several participants, never as several separate crossings.

Counted as one event: 1
Participants named in the record: 14
Head count confirmed editorially: 14

Every participant named

Counting a group event as several crossings is the single largest source of disagreement between published floor-crossing totals. This site counts events; see the counting rules for how to put our figure and someone else’s on the same footing.

How a group event is counted

Participants

14 participants named in the recordEvery participant named

Chuck Cadman
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-A8B01CC9-01
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Peter Goldring
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-16E1C108-02
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Deborah C. Grey
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-1E8B8AA5-03
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Grant Hill
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-93ED128C-04
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Jay D. Hill
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-5F13B182-05
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Inky Mark
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-AD3B61F2-06
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Grant McNally
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-D2E2B93C-07
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Valerie (Val) Meredith
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-42F4139E-08
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Deepak Obhrai
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-A3E652BC-09
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Jim Pankiw
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-8E7B7990-10
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
John Douglas Reynolds
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-7435E9E5-11
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Monte Solberg
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-B67857F5-12
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Charles (Chuck) Strahl
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-F935EA5D-13
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded
Keith Martin
CTF-EP-PLI-20000327-5D352EE4-14
Reform Party of CanadaToCanadian AllianceTo 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
March 27, 2000
Kind of transition
Changed party affiliation
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded

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.

PARLINFO records a change of party affiliation from "Reform Party of Canada" to "Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance" effective 2000-03-27.
Pending review
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
Medium
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
Concerns a living person
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record Chuck Cadman | 2000-03-27 | Reform Party of Canada -> Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 117 · MUL
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
On March 27, 2000, in the House of Commons, the record groups thirteen changes of affiliation, each from the Reform Party of Canada to the Canadian Alliance. Thirteen people are named individually, but the record counts fourteen participants in this group: one is not named here. The record marks the resolution of this group as partial, which those two figures reflect. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were 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.
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-20000327-34F7167B — Chuck Cadman | 2000-03-27 | Reform Party of Canada -> Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 117 · MUL
  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-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · 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.

Revision history

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

r7 corrected
Redrafted this record’s summary because the roster underneath it changed. The paragraph said in words how many participants the record named and how many it counted, and named the shortfall; participants counted but not named have since been named from the same PARLINFO cluster that produced the count, so those sentences had stopped being true. The paragraph was regenerated by the project’s own summary drafter from the current rows, not edited by hand. NOTE: the identical paragraph is mirrored in the summary claim for this event in the claims table, which this actor does not own and has not modified. Until the claim is redrafted, the claim and this column disagree, and the claim is the stale one.
September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r6 corrected
Roster completed and the resolution flag corrected from partial to complete. This record counted 14 participants and named 13; the 1 it counted without naming — Keith P. Martin — are now named from the Library of Parliament, PARLINFO parliamentarian profile cluster that produced the count itself, each matched to a PARLINFO PersonId whose role chain carries this exact transition on this exact date. The roster now names 14 of 14. "Complete" here means complete with respect to that source, and no more than that.
September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r5 corrected
The record asserted participant_resolution_status = "complete" while holding 13 participant rows against its own participant_count_known of 14. Corrected to "partial": the roster is short by 1. No participant row was added or removed; the person named in the source cluster but absent from this record is left for editorial review. The summary sentence that reported the flag as complete was updated to match.
September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r4 corrected
The machine-assembled summary reported 13 participant rows as the whole group and repeated the record's "complete" resolution flag, while the event row counts 14 participants. Corrected to carry both figures, name the 1 not present, and state that the two disagree.
September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier
r3 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 13 participant rows 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-EB0E58E24347, 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
r2 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/reform-party-of-canada-to-canadian-reform-conservative-alliance-2000-03-27, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/reform-party-of-canada-to-canadian-reform-conservative-alliance-2000-03-27, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
r1 created
Created from the Library of Parliament PARLINFO affiliation-change record (class C1_voluntary_party_switch).
September 1, 2026

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-PLI-20000327-34F7167B
Revision: 7
Published: Not published as a verified record
Last verified: Never verified
Record last changed: September 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 2 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. “Reform Party of Canada → Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (2000-03-27)” (CTF-E-PLI-20000327-34F7167B). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/reform-party-of-canada-to-canadian-reform-conservative-alliance-2000-03-27 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/reform-party-of-canada-to-canadian-reform-conservative-alliance-2000-03-27
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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