Lucien Bouchard (1996)

What the record says

On January 27, 1996, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of Lucien Bouchard changes from the Bloc Québécois to the Parti Québécois. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. 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.

Participants

1. Lucien Bouchard

   CTF-EP-PLI-19960127-E772ABE2-01

   Bloc Québécois→ToParti QuébécoisTo 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

   January 27, 1996

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

How rare is this?

Claims and the sources cited for them

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.

1. PARLINFO records a change of party affiliation from "Bloc Québécois" to "Parti Québécois" effective 1996-01-27.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Medium

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   Concerns a living person

   • PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)

     Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record Lucien Bouchard | 1996-01-27 | Bloc Québécois -> Parti Québécois — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 80 · MUL

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

2. On January 27, 1996, in the House of Commons, the recorded affiliation of Lucien Bouchard changes from the Bloc Québécois to the Parti Québécois. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. 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 review

   Field:

   summary

   Confidence:

   High

   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.

   • PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)

     Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19960127-7C39A0F7 — Lucien Bouchard | 1996-01-27 | Bloc Québécois -> Parti Québécois — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 80 · MUL

     Cited here because it is the source already attached to this affiliation event. It supports the literal affiliation and date only.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

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.

Revision history

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

1. 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 (1/1). 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-1545373CBB46, 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. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/lucien-bouchard-parti-quebecois-1996, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/lucien-bouchard-parti-quebecois-1996, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

3. r1 created

   Created from the Library of Parliament PARLINFO affiliation-change record (class C1_voluntary_party_switch).

   September 1, 2026