Danielle Smith + 8 Wildrose MLAs (2014)

What the record says

In 2014, in Alberta, the record groups nine changes of affiliation, each from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta. Nine 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 December 17, 2014. 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. Danielle Smith

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-E34B00ED-01

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

2. Rob Anderson

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-E41BE867-02

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

3. Gary Bikman

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-E7DADD05-03

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

4. Rod Fox

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-85D87249-04

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

5. Jason Hale

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-206782F4-05

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

6. Bruce McAllister

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-D63F1F53-06

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

7. Blake Pedersen

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-1B9FEABA-07

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

8. Bruce Rowe

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-C2B392BA-08

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

9. Jeff Wilson

   CTF-EP-GRP-20141217-B57E3D81-09

   Wildrose Party→ToProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   December 17, 2014

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not applicable

Claims and the sources cited for them

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1. Danielle Smith + 8 Wildrose MLAs changed affiliation from Wildrose Party to Progressive Conservative in 2014.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Not assessed

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   • 9 Wildrose MLAs, including Danielle Smith, cross to Alberta Tories

     CBC News · December 17, 2014 · record participant rows of danielle-smith-wildrose-2014 already cited to this source: 9 of 9 recorded participants — Blake Pedersen; Bruce McAllister; Bruce Rowe; Danielle Smith; Gary Bikman; Jason Hale; Jeff Wilson; Rob Anderson; Rod Fox · EN

     This citation carries the evidence already attached to this event's participant rows up to the event claim. The source evidences 9 of the 9 participant rows recorded for this event, and the event's own participant count is recorded as an estimate of 8, so the source does not establish the total the claim states.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-GRP-CBC-WILDROSE-2014 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

2. In 2014, in Alberta, the record groups nine changes of affiliation, each from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta. Nine 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 December 17, 2014. 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. 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.

   No source is cited for this claim.

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.

Machine-assisted proposals awaiting a human

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• group event reconciliation pending

  Machine assistance: research entity matching and translation draft

  AI-assisted source discovery and entity matching produced this private candidate. The official Hansard index distinguishes the nine December 17 changes from Kerry Towle and Ian Donovan, who changed affiliation on November 24. A human editor must verify the complete proposal before promotion.

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

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 9 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-3F770E009FC0, 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

   9 of an estimated 8 participants were named from cited sources and attached to this event; resolution status set to 'complete'. CBC names all nine and dates the crossing 17 December 2014. The event title ("Danielle Smith + 8 Wildrose MLAs") and the stored estimate of 8 count the eight who crossed WITH Smith; the full head count is 9, so participant_count_known is set to 9 and the estimate is left untouched.

   September 1, 2026

3. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/danielle-smith-wildrose-2014, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/danielle-smith-wildrose-2014, 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