7 Bloc Québécois MPs (Québec debout crisis) (2018)

What the record says

In 2018, in the House of Commons, the record groups seven changes of affiliation, each from the Bloc Québécois to the Groupe parlementaire québécois. Seven people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as complete. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry February 28, 2018. No source is cited for this event record: it is a legacy lead, kept from an earlier phase of the project because it points at something real, not because anyone has checked it. 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.

Participants

1. Michel Boudrias

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-DFB6DCDC-01

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

2. Rhéal Éloi Fortin

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-19BCF430-02

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

3. Simon Marcil

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-B8BBE4ED-03

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

4. Monique Pauzé

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-9073B86D-04

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

5. Louis Plamondon

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-75D25F6F-05

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

6. Gabriel Ste-Marie

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-D37C89CE-06

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

7. Luc Thériault

   CTF-EP-GRP-20180228-6295FDF3-07

   Bloc Québécois→ToGroupe parlementaire québécoisParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   February 28, 2018

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

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.

1. 7 Bloc Québécois MPs (Québec debout crisis) changed affiliation from Bloc Québécois to Independent / Québec debout in 2018.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Not assessed

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88651; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88651</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Michel</FirstName><LastName>Boudrias</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Terrebonne</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Michel Boudrias — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88651; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T00:00:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — April 7, 2025

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-BOUDRIAS-88651 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88605; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88605</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Rhéal</FirstName><LastName>Fortin</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Rivière-du-Nord</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Rhéal Fortin — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88605; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     No archived copy has been captured for this source. If the address stops resolving, the citation cannot be checked from here.

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-FORTIN-88605 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88544; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88544</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Simon</FirstName><LastName>Marcil</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Mirabel</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Simon Marcil — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88544; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T00:00:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — October 8, 2025

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-MARCIL-88544 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88595; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88595</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Monique</FirstName><LastName>Pauzé</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Repentigny</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Monique Pauzé — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88595; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T11:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — March 12, 2026

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-PAUZE-88595 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=413; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>413</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Louis</FirstName><LastName>Plamondon</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Louis Plamondon — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=413; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-PLAMONDON-413 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88485; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88485</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Gabriel</FirstName><LastName>Ste-Marie</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Joliette</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Gabriel Ste-Marie — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88485; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — April 7, 2025

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-STEMARIE-88485 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)

     House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · record PersonId=88552; EffectiveDate=2018-02-28; Reason="Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois" · EN

     <MembershipChanges><PersonId>88552</PersonId><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber><EffectiveDate>2018-02-28T00:00:00</EffectiveDate><FirstName>Luc</FirstName><LastName>Thériault</LastName><HonorificTitle /><Reason>Change of political affiliation — Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois</Reason><ConstituencyName>Montcalm</ConstituencyName></MembershipChanges>

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

   • Roles — Luc Thériault — caucus memberships (XML)

     House of Commons of Canada · record CaucusMemberRoles; PersonId=88552; caucus boundary at 2018-02-28T00:00:00 · EN

     One of the seven members named in this group event. Official record of the same move, on the same date, for this member. The two <CaucusMemberRole> elements this citation rests on, transcribed from the XML: <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Bloc Québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2015-10-19T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-02-27T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> <CaucusMemberRole><CaucusShortName>Groupe parlementaire québécois</CaucusShortName><FromDateTime>2018-02-28T00:00:00</FromDateTime><ToDateTime>2018-06-05T23:59:00</ToDateTime><ParliamentNumber>42</ParliamentNumber></CaucusMemberRole> Each element appears in the document exactly as written here, re-verified against the live XML on 2026-09-01, but they are separate elements and the document lists caucus periods newest first — so the pair above is a transcription assembled for reading, not a contiguous quotation. quote_excerpt held that assembled pair and was cleared on 2026-09-01, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.

     Archived copy — October 8, 2025

     CTF-S-HOC-ROLES-THERIAULT-88552 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

2. In 2018, in the House of Commons, the record groups seven changes of affiliation, each from the Bloc Québécois to the Groupe parlementaire québécois. Seven people are named individually, and the record marks the resolution of this group as complete. The event itself is dated only to the year; the participant rows all carry February 28, 2018. On 2026-09-01, 14 citations were attached to this record's affiliation claim, drawn from 8 sources, and they are recorded as pending review. The editorial status of the record is unchanged: it remains a legacy lead, and no editor has yet stood behind it. 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:

   Low

   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.

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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.

Linked records

• component of Bloc Québécois → Groupe parlementaire québécois (2018-02-28)This event records part of the same real-world episode as the group lead bq-quebec-debout-2018. Both records describe the same people; participant totals that count them separately will double-count. Recorded so the overlap is explicit rather than hidden.
• duplicate of Bloc Québécois → Groupe parlementaire québécois (2018-02-28)Whole-record duplicate: this PARLINFO record and the legacy group lead bq-quebec-debout-2018 describe one and the same real-world event - the same single transition (Bloc Québécois to Groupe parlementaire québécois) on the same effective date, 2018-02-28. Six of the seven people appear in both records. Neither record is deleted here; the overlap is recorded so that any total counting both will double-count those six.

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  AI-assisted source discovery and entity matching produced this private candidate from a CPAC recording of the MPs’ announcement and independent reporting. A human editor must verify the identities, parliamentary-group status, and bilingual wording before promotion.

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1. r4 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 7 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 (0/1). 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-8202D9692FFE, 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

2. r3 expanded

   7 of an estimated 7 participants were named from cited sources and attached to this event; resolution status set to 'complete'. PARLINFO records exactly 7 Bloc Québécois MPs moving to the Groupe parlementaire québécois on 2018-02-28. Mid-term, so the date is genuine. This is the opening step of the crisis that produced Québec debout in June 2018.

   September 1, 2026

3. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/bq-quebec-debout-2018, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/bq-quebec-debout-2018, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

4. 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