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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 Do not cite it as established.
On February 2, 2004, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of John Herron changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. 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-000271-01Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependentTo the crossbench
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.
17 recorded transitions match leaving Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, joining Independent and at the federal level, across 17 events and 15 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted October 4, 2026). The most recent is Jean-Claude Rivest, June 2, 2004 — the 17th on record. The earliest on record is Rémi Paul, February 18, 1965.
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.
John Herron changed affiliation from Progressive Conservative to Independent in 2004.
Pending reviewPARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record transitions extract row — John Herron | MP | Progressive Conservative Party -> Independent | 2004-02-02 — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 370 · MUL
PARLINFO's own transition row for this person carries the same party of origin, the same party of arrival and the same date as this record. The live PARLINFO page is refused to non-browser clients (HTTP 403 on 2026-09-01) and renders its rows client-side, so the archived capture fixes the query but not the result set. The checkable artifact for this row is the committed extract research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv (882 rows, sha256 5b17f2aeb6835b2d93c456c4feb2f9c5b43f1cb22bed01fa9427a84c8fdd15e4), re-verified byte-for-byte on 2026-09-01; the row sits at line 370 of that file. This citation carries no quote_excerpt: an extract row is a data record, not a passage of the cited document, and that field is reserved for text reproduced contiguously and word-for-word from the source. Cleared 2026-09-01.
Archived copy — September 1, 2026
CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
On February 2, 2004, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of John Herron changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. 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.
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 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-6E6EE1C4B86E, 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
r3 corrected
Date precision upgraded from year (2004-01-01) to day (2004-02-02) using the Library of Parliament PARLINFO record.
September 1, 2026
r2 corrected
Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/john-herron-2004, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/john-herron-2004, 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