Source-checked case file
Lionel Carmant returns to the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus (2026)
- Permanent identifier
- CTF-E-000287
- Publication status
- Verified
- Evidence level
- Official and independent sources
- Revision
- 1
Record identity
- Date
- April 1, 2026
- Date precision
- Exact day
- Jurisdiction
- Quebec
- Legislature
- National Assembly of Quebec
- Chamber
- National Assembly
- Transition type
- Return to a party
- Event scope
- Individual
- Legacy row ID
- Unknown
- Last source check
- August 1, 2026
Participants and affiliation change
After the switch
What happened next?
Only claim-cited outcomes with a recorded AI or human source check appear here. Timing alone never proves that a job or appointment was exchanged for a floor crossing.
Lionel Carmant
CTF-EP-000287-01
Cabinet appointment
DocumentedLionel Carmant was appointed Minister responsible for Social Services and the Fight Against Homelessness on April 21, 2026, twenty days after returning to the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus. Timing is documented; a quid pro quo or other causal exchange is not established.
- Date
- April 21, 2026
- Evidence
- 1 linked sources
- Compensation
- Pay unknown
- Timing from crossing
- 20 days after
- Causation
- Causation not established
- Evidence confidence
- High confidence
- Official title
- Minister responsible for Social Services and the Fight Against Homelessness
- Appointment authority
- Premier of Quebec
- Christine Fréchette unveils the composition of her new cabinetGovernment of Quebec · Lionel Carmant appointed Minister responsible for Social Services and the Fight Against Homelessness; 2026-04-21
CTF-O-0020-CARMANT-CABINET-20260421
Claims and evidence
Historical fact · Supported · High confidence
Lionel Carmant rejoined the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus on April 1, 2026, after sitting as an Independent. His cabinet appointment twenty days later is an observed outcome; causation is not established.
CTF-CL-000287-AFFILIATION
Documents tabled on April 1, 2026 — Lionel Carmant rejoins government caucus — source checked
- Permanent identifier
- CTF-S-ANQ-CARMANT-RETURN-2026
- Reliability
- Official primary source
- Source language
- French
- Locator
- record Sessional Paper 701-20260401; Lionel Carmant rejoined Government Caucus on 2026-04-01
Return of ex-minister Carmant to the CAQ a bit of good news ahead of October election — source checked
- Permanent identifier
- CTF-S-GLOBAL-CARMANT-RETURN-2026
- Reliability
- Reliable secondary source
- Source language
- English
- Locator
- record Lionel Carmant rejoins CAQ after five months as Independent; 2026-04-01
Revision history
Revision 1 · Created
Created Lionel Carmant’s exact 2026 return-to-CAQ event and separate cabinet-appointment outcome.
CTF-R-000287-0001