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This record is a lead, not a finding
It was imported from the project’s earlier compilation and has not been through verification. It is published so it can be checked and corrected. Do not cite it as established.
year only — the day is not recorded
In 1998, in Ontario, the recorded affiliation of Alex Cullen changes from the Ontario Liberal Party to the Ontario New Democratic Party. 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. This entry records the affiliation and its date. It does not record why the change was 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.
CTF-EP-000179-01Ontario Liberal PartyToOntario New Democratic PartyTo another party
No recorded transition matches leaving Ontario Liberal Party, joining Ontario New Democratic Party and at the provincial level (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 4, 2026). That is a statement about this database's coverage, not about Canadian history.
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.
Alex Cullen changed affiliation from Ontario Liberal to Ontario NDP in 1998.
Pending reviewAlex Cullen — Member profile, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Legislative Assembly of Ontario · section Party affiliation(s): Ontario Liberal Party ends 1998-11-15; Independent 1998-11-15 to 1998-11-23; New Democratic Party of Ontario begins 1998-11-23 · EN
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario's own member page records this change as two steps passing through Independent, both inside the year this record states. The record collapses them into a single entry. The affiliation rows this citation rests on, transcribed from the source: New Democratic Party of Ontario — November 23, 1998 – May 5, 1999 ; Independent — November 15, 1998 – November 23, 1998 ; Ontario Liberal Party — September 4, 1997 – November 15, 1998. The Assembly prints each affiliation as its own block, with the party name on one line and the two dates below it; the em dashes above join them and are this project’s, so this is a transcription and not a quotation. Verified against the live page on 2026-09-01. quote_excerpt held that transcription and was cleared on that date, because the field promises text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source.
Archived copy — April 29, 2026
CTF-S-OLA-ALEXCULLEN · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
In 1998, in Ontario, the recorded affiliation of Alex Cullen changes from the Ontario Liberal Party to the Ontario New Democratic Party. On 2026-09-01, 1 citation was attached to this record's affiliation claim, drawn from 1 source, 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. This entry records the affiliation and its date. It does not record why the change was 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 reviewAssumptions: 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.
No source is cited for this claim.
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.
Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.
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 1 participant row 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-EF97B6716855, 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/alex-cullen-1998, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/alex-cullen-1998, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.
September 1, 2026
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