David Emerson

Biography

Affiliation changes on record

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1. David Emerson joins the Conservative Party and Cabinet (2006)

   CorroboratedVerifiedEvidence: CorroboratedAt least two independent sources support the record, each with a locator. Independent means they do not derive from one another.What you may rely onUsable as a factual statement about the date, the parties and the person. Motive, benefit and causation are never covered by this level, whatever the sources say about them.Editorial status: VerifiedCitable. Check the date precision before writing a day into a sentence, and check the verification level to know which of the two evidentiary standards was met.

   February 6, 2006

   Liberal Party of Canada→ToConservative Party of CanadaTo 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.Read from the two affiliation labels this record carries, by the same rule the database applies. It states the direction of the move, not the editorial ruling on how the leg counts.

Where they sat

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Recorded election results

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Recorded appointments

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• Minister of International Trade

  2006-02-06 – 2007-08-14 · Stephen Harper

• Minister of International Trade

  2006-02-06 – 2007-08-14 · Stephen Harper

• Minister of Foreign Affairs

  2007-08-14 – 2008-10-30 · Stephen Harper

• Minister of Foreign Affairs

  2007-08-14 – 2008-10-30 · Stephen Harper