Amanda Simard joins the Ontario Liberal Party (2020)

What the record says

Amanda Simard joined the Ontario Liberal Party from Independent status on January 16, 2020. This is the second of two affiliation stages, after leaving the Progressive Conservatives in 2018.

Participants

1. Amanda Simard

   CTF-EP-000084-01

   Independent→ToOntario Liberal PartyFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.

   Marked as a label rather than a party: the database has no party row for this side of the transition. Overwhelmingly this means the member sat as an Independent, and there is deliberately no “Independent” party.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   January 16, 2020

   Kind of transition

   Joined a party

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

   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.

   • defeated

     June 2, 2022 · result: yes · causation: not established · none

     Amanda Simard was defeated in Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in 2022: Stéphane Sarrazin received 18,661 votes and Simard received 17,529.

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Claims and the sources cited for them

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1. Amanda Simard changed from Independent to Ontario Liberal on January 16, 2020.

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   affiliation_change

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   High

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   Concerns a living person

   • Wikipedia: Amanda Simard

     UND

     Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-000072 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only

   • Amanda Simard - Wikipedia

     UND

     Legacy record-level citation; claim-level locator pending review.

     Archived copy — January 13, 2026

     CTF-S-000123 · Reliability tier: tertiary · Rights: link only

   • Amanda Simard — Profil de députée

     Assemblée législative de l’Ontario · section Parti; Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario; Députée indépendante; Parti libéral de l'Ontario; Parlement 42 · FR

     The French Assembly profile independently exposes the same affiliation intervals in the French edition.

     Archived copy — May 15, 2026

     CTF-S-OLA-SIMARD-ROLES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Amanda Simard — Member profile

     Legislative Assembly of Ontario · section Party; Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario; Independent Member; Ontario Liberal Party; Parliament 42 · EN

     The Assembly profile gives the Independent and Liberal intervals.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-OLA-SIMARD-ROLES · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

2. Amanda Simard was defeated in Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in 2022: Stéphane Sarrazin received 18,661 votes and Simard received 17,529.

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   Field:

   defeated

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   High

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   Official-source deterministic verifier

   Concerns a living person

   • Official tabulation — Glengarry—Prescott—Russell — 2022

     Elections Ontario · June 2, 2022 · page p. 8; Glengarry-Prescott-Russell final vote totals; Stephane Sarrazin 18,661; Amanda Simard 17,529 · EN

     The official tabulation gives the final candidate totals.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-EO-SIMARD-2022 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

Corrections to this record

• Permanent citation address did not resolve

  The permanent URI published for this record was https://crossingthefloor.ca/en/crossings/amanda-simard-2020. This site has never served a language-prefixed route and has no /id/ route, so that address returned HTTP 404: any citation made against it did not resolve to the record. The permanent URI is now https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/amanda-simard-2020, the canonical record address. The record's facts, dates, parties, participants, sources and public identifier (CTF-E-000084) are unchanged; only the stored address was corrected.

  September 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-URI-000084

• Amanda Simard timeline and election result

  The 2018 Independent interval is now a separate event, the 2020 Liberal entry remains at its legacy ID, and the 2022 result is defeated rather than re-elected.

  August 1, 2026 · material correction · CTF-COR-OUTCOME-000084

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

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1. r3 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/amanda-simard-2020, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/amanda-simard-2020, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

2. r2 corrected

   Preserved the 2020 Liberal entry while separating the 2018 Independent interval and correcting the 2022 result to defeated.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

3. 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