All Floor Crossings

Amanda Simard

2020Notable

Prog. Conservative → LiberalMPPOntario

1/5

Simard resigned from Doug Ford's Ontario PC caucus because the government cut funding for Franco-Ontarian services - including eliminating the French Language Commissioner. She …

Fournier, PQ MNA for Marie-Victorin, left the PQ to sit as an independent, citing the party's insufficient commitment to Quebec sovereignty and its failure to modernize.

Bellavance, BQ MP for Richmond-Arthabaska since 2004, left the Bloc to sit as an independent, expressing disillusionment with the party's direction.

Sana Hassainia

2014Notable

NDP → IndependentMPQuebec

0/5

Hassainia disagreed with NDP leader Thomas Mulcair's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She left the party over it.

Brent Rathgeber

2013Notable

Conservative → IndependentMPAlberta

0/5

Rathgeber was a Conservative backbencher who became increasingly frustrated with Stephen Harper's tight control over MPs. He felt MPs were being treated as rubber stamps rather …

Bruce Hyer

2012Notable

New Democratic Party → Green PartyMPOntario

1/5

Hyer, NDP MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, left the NDP in 2012 over the party's whipped vote on the long-gun registry. He sat as an independent before joining the Greens in 2…

Blair Lekstrom

2010

BC Liberal → IndependentMLABritish Columbia

2/5

Lekstrom, BC Liberal MLA for Peace River South and former cabinet minister, left the BC Liberal caucus to protest the party's implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

Heather Forsyth

2010Notable

Progressive Conservative → Wildrose AllianceMLAAlberta

3/5

Forsyth, a long-serving PC MLA and former cabinet minister, crossed to the Wildrose Alliance with Rob Anderson over dissatisfaction with PC governance.

Anderson, PC MLA for Airdrie-Chestermere, crossed to the Wildrose Alliance along with Heather Forsyth, citing overspending, broken promises, and democratic reform.

Bill Casey

2007Notable

Conservative → IndependentMPNova Scotia

3/5

William David "Bill" Casey, the Conservative MP for Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley in Nova Scotia, was expelled from the Conservative caucus on June 6, 2007, after vo…

Joseph R. "Joe" Comuzzi, a Liberal MP from Thunder Bay—Superior North since 1988, was suspended from the Liberal caucus in March 2007 after voting in favour of the Harper Conser…

Branch, New Brunswick Liberal MLA for Nepisiguit, left the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent over policy disagreements with the government.

David Kilgour (2nd crossing)

2005Notable

Liberal → IndependentMPAlberta

0/5

Kilgour left the Liberal caucus in 2005, citing the sponsorship scandal and disagreements on Sudan policy. This was his second floor crossing — he had previously crossed from th…

O'Brien left the Liberal caucus over the government's same-sex marriage legislation, sitting as an independent.

André Bachand, a Progressive Conservative MP for Richmond—Arthabaska since 1997, refused to join the newly merged Conservative Party of Canada on February 2, 2004, choosing inst…

Masyk, Alberta PC MLA for Edmonton-Norwood, crossed the floor to join the Alberta Alliance Party over disagreements with PC governance.

John Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP for Fundy—Royal since 1997, was one of the last three sitting PC MPs to refuse to join the new Conservative Party of Canada when it wa…

Gooshen, Saskatchewan PC MLA, refused to join the new Saskatchewan Party formed from the merger of PCs and Liberals, choosing instead to sit as an independent.

John Nunziata

1996Notable

Liberal → IndependentMPOntario

0/5

In 1993, the Liberals won a huge election partly by promising to eliminate the GST (sales tax). Once in power, they broke that promise. Nunziata voted against his own party's bu…

Dennis Drainville

1993

Ontario NDP → IndependentMPPOntario

0/5

Drainville, Ontario NDP MPP for Victoria-Haliburton, quit the NDP caucus to sit as an independent to protest the Rae government's decision to allow casino gambling in Ontario.

David Kilgour

1990Notable

Prog. Conservative → IndependentMPAlberta

3/5

Kilgour left the Conservatives over policy disagreements. He later joined the Liberals. Then in 2005, he left the Liberals too - one of only two people to cross the floor twice.

Donald James Johnston

1988Notable

Liberal → Independent LiberalMPQuebec

1/5

Donald Johnston, a prominent Montreal Liberal MP and former cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau and John Turner, broke with the Liberal Party in January 1988 over his vehement…

William Yurko, a Progressive Conservative MP for Edmonton East and former Alberta provincial cabinet minister, broke with his party in January 1982 over fundamental disagreement…

Rideout, a Newfoundland Liberal MHA, crossed to the PCs over his opposition to the federal government's handling of offshore resource ownership, siding with Brian Peckford's pos…