Sona Lakhoyan Olivier is excluded from the Quebec Liberal caucus (2025)

What the record says

Sona Lakhoyan Olivier was excluded from the Quebec Liberal caucus on December 4, 2025, and began sitting as an Independent. The literal caucus status and date are corroborated.

Participants

1. Sona Lakhoyan Olivier

   CTF-EP-000291-01

   Quebec Liberal Party→ToIndependentTo the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left a caucus and sat as an independentThe change begins at a party and ends outside every caucus. No party gained the seat. A designation such as “Independent Liberal” or “(Not in Caucus)” is on this side of the line: it describes an alignment, not a caucus membership.What you may rely onWhere the member sat afterwards, and only that. Whether they walked out or were expelled is `voluntary_status`, which is recorded separately and reads unknown on most legs; /coverage has the live share.How it countsCounted as its own figure and never added to the floor-crossing total. They are different acts, and a single number that merged them could not answer either question.

   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

   Chomedey(Quebec)

   Effective

   December 4, 2025

   Kind of transition

   Expelled from caucus

   Voluntary

   Involuntary

   Direction

   Opposition to the cross benches

   Appointment

   Not appointed

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1. Sona Lakhoyan Olivier was excluded from the Quebec Liberal caucus on December 4, 2025, and began sitting as an Independent. The literal caucus status and date are corroborated.

   Supported

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

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   Concerns a living person

   • La députée Sona Lakhoyan Olivier exclue du caucus libéral

     TVA Nouvelles · December 4, 2025 · record Sona Lakhoyan Olivier excluded from Quebec Liberal caucus; 2025-12-04 · FR

     The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-TVA-SONA-LAKHOYAN-2025 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Letter on Sona Lakhoyan Olivier’s Official Opposition caucus status

     Assemblée nationale du Québec · December 4, 2025 · record Letter dated 2025-12-04; Sona Lakhoyan Olivier no longer member of Official Opposition caucus · EN

     The source supports the literal affiliation and date. Motive, reward, and causation are not inferred.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-ANQ-SONA-LAKHOYAN-2025 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

   • Canadian Parliamentary Review — Volume 49, Number 1 — Quebec report

     Canadian Parliamentary Review · June 2026 · section Legislative Reports - Quebec, Composition (entry dated 2025-12-04) · EN

     On December 4, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, Member for Chomedey, was excluded from the caucus of the parliamentary group forming the Official Opposition.

     Independent scholarly summary of the Quebec legislative session; the cited entry states this affiliation change and its date. Supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive is inferred.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-CPR-QC-AFFILIATIONS-2026 · Reliability tier: scholarly · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

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No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

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• fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026
• frenchapproved · August 1, 2026
• legalapproved · August 1, 2026
• living personapproved · August 1, 2026
• publicationapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

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1. r1 created

   Created the exact, source-bound Quebec Liberal exclusion event for Sona Lakhoyan Olivier.

   August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier