All Floor Crossings

Dallas Brodie

2025

BC Conservative → IndependentMLABritish Columbia

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Brodie, BC Conservative MLA, left the party caucus in 2025 amid internal disputes, sitting as an independent.

Armstrong, BC Conservative MLA, left the party caucus in 2025 amid disagreements with party leadership.

Samson, CAQ MNA for Iberville, was expelled from the CAQ caucus in 2021 after it was revealed she had donated to the Conservative Party of Quebec. She then joined the Conservati…

MacLaren, Ontario PC MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, was expelled from the PC caucus after making offensive comments about francophones. He briefly associated with the Trill…

Dean Del Mastro

2013Notable

Conservative → IndependentMPOntario

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Del Mastro had been one of PM Harper's closest allies - his parliamentary secretary. He left caucus after being charged by Elections Canada with overspending on his campaign and…

Guy Boutilier

2010

Progressive Conservative → WildroseMLAAlberta

3/5

Boutilier, Alberta PC MLA for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, was ejected from the PC caucus in 2009 for publicly criticizing the government's response to the oilsands housing crisi…

Garth Turner

2007Notable

Conservative → LiberalMPOntario

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Turner was expelled from the Conservative caucus in October 2006 for publicly criticizing the party. After sitting as an independent, he joined the Liberals in February 2007.

Desjarlais, NDP MP for Churchill, voted against same-sex marriage in defiance of her party's position. She lost her NDP nomination and sat as an independent.

Carolyn Parrish

2004Notable

Liberal → IndependentMPOntario

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Parrish was expelled from the Liberal caucus after publicly insulting Prime Minister Paul Martin and famously stomping on a George W. Bush doll on a comedy TV show.

Chuck Cadman

2004Notable

Conservative → IndependentMPBritish Columbia

2/5

Chuck Cadman, the Conservative MP for Surrey North and a well-known victims' rights advocate whose teenage son Jesse had been murdered in 1992, lost the Conservative Party nomin…

Larry Spencer, a Canadian Alliance MP for Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, was expelled from the Alliance caucus in November 2003 after making controversial comments to a newspaper c…

Pankiw, MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt, was part of the DRC dissidents from the Alliance. He sat as an independent after failing to join other parties, known for controversial views.

Jack Ramsay

2000

Reform Party → IndependentMPAlberta

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Jack Ramsay, a Reform Party MP for Crowfoot in Alberta and former RCMP officer, was suspended from the Reform caucus in November 1999 following criminal charges and personal con…

Jake Hoeppner, a Reform Party MP for Portage—Lisgar in Manitoba, had a prolonged falling out with the party that began with his suspension from caucus in July 1999. Hoeppner was…

Réjean Lefebvre, a Bloc Québécois MP, left the party caucus in January 1999 following personal disputes with the party leadership. Lefebvre had been elected in the 1993 BQ sweep…

Janet (Jan) Brown

1996

Reform Party → IndependentMPAlberta

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Jan Brown, a Reform Party MP for Calgary Southeast, was suspended from the Reform caucus on May 7, 1996, after clashing repeatedly with the party leadership. Brown had been one …

Bhaduria was removed from the Liberal caucus after controversy over falsified educational credentials and a previous court case. He sat as an independent, styling himself a "Lib…

Gilles Bernier, a Progressive Conservative MP for Beauce since 1984, was a colourful Quebec politician who ran as an Independent in the October 1993 election after being denied …

Alex Kindy, a Progressive Conservative MP for Calgary East since 1968, was suspended from the Conservative caucus on April 11, 1990, alongside David Kilgour, for voting against …

Richard Grisé, a Progressive Conservative MP from Quebec's Chambly riding, was effectively expelled from the PC caucus in April 1989 over personal conduct issues that made his c…

Suzanne Blais-Grenier was a Quebec Progressive Conservative MP who had served as Minister of State for the Environment in Brian Mulroney's first cabinet — the first woman to hol…

René Matte, one of the last remaining Créditiste MPs in the House of Commons, was expelled from what remained of the Social Credit/Créditiste caucus in 1978. By this point, the …

Gilbert Rondeau, a Créditiste/Social Credit MP from Quebec, was expelled from the Social Credit caucus around 1977 during the death throes of the Social Credit movement in feder…

James Samuel Taylor

1937

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation → IndependentMPBritish Columbia

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James Samuel Taylor, the CCF MP for Nanaimo in British Columbia, was expelled from or left the CCF caucus around 1937. Taylor was one of the CCF's earliest elected members, winn…