Roch La Salle

Life dates: not recorded

Legacy leadLiving-person review: Not reviewed — this check has not been runCTF-P-L000244

Biography

The record holds five affiliation changes for Roch La Salle, in the House of Commons. On May 4, 1971 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. In 1972 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. On February 26, 1974 the recorded affiliation changes from Independent to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In 1981 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to the Union Nationale. On August 17, 1981 the recorded affiliation changes from the Union Nationale to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Four of the five event records carry a citation. The other one is a legacy lead with no source cited. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. The record holds no riding, no year of birth and no election result for Roch La Salle. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.

Affiliation changes on record

Every event this person is recorded as taking part in, oldest first. Each links to the full record with its sources.

Roch La Salle (1971)
Single sourcePending reviewEvidence: Single sourceOne source supports the record, with a locator, and it has been read. No second source has confirmed it independently.What you may rely onUsable with the source named in your own copy. Where the single source is a news report, the risk is that the report itself was the origin of a later chain of repetition.Editorial status: Pending reviewRead the attached sources yourself. What is pending is our judgement, not necessarily the evidence.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
May 4, 1971
Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependentTo 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.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.
Roch La Salle (1972)
UnverifiedLegacy leadEvidence: UnverifiedNobody has stood behind this record with a citation. It was inherited, or entered from a lead, and it has not been checked against a source.What you may rely onTreat as a lead, not as a finding. Usable to know where to look; not usable as the basis of a published statement. Expect year-precision dates and unconfirmed party labels.Editorial status: Legacy leadThe label is a warning, not a formality. Legacy leads are the part of the record most likely to carry a wrong year, a collapsed episode, or a party label that did not exist under that name at the time.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
1972year only
Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependentTo 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.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.
Roch La Salle (1974)
Single sourcePending reviewEvidence: Single sourceOne source supports the record, with a locator, and it has been read. No second source has confirmed it independently.What you may rely onUsable with the source named in your own copy. Where the single source is a news report, the risk is that the report itself was the origin of a later chain of repetition.Editorial status: Pending reviewRead the attached sources yourself. What is pending is our judgement, not necessarily the evidence.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
February 26, 1974
IndependentToProgressive Conservative Party of CanadaFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.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.
Roch La Salle (1981)
Single sourcePending reviewEvidence: Single sourceOne source supports the record, with a locator, and it has been read. No second source has confirmed it independently.What you may rely onUsable with the source named in your own copy. Where the single source is a news report, the risk is that the report itself was the origin of a later chain of repetition.Editorial status: Pending reviewRead the attached sources yourself. What is pending is our judgement, not necessarily the evidence.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
1981year only
Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToUnion NationaleTo 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.
Roch La Salle (1981)
Single sourcePending reviewEvidence: Single sourceOne source supports the record, with a locator, and it has been read. No second source has confirmed it independently.What you may rely onUsable with the source named in your own copy. Where the single source is a news report, the risk is that the report itself was the origin of a later chain of repetition.Editorial status: Pending reviewRead the attached sources yourself. What is pending is our judgement, not necessarily the evidence.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
August 17, 1981
Union NationaleToProgressive Conservative 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.

Crossbench episodes

Where this person left a caucus for the crossbench and later joined a party, the two legs are shown as one sequence. The sequence is the story: what separates a member who went to the crossbench, faced the voters and then sat under a new banner from one who joined another caucus without the voters being asked is what happened between these two dates.

Left the caucus1972year onlyTo 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.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.
Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependent
Roch La Salle (1972)
Between the twoOne of the two dates is not known to the day, so the interval is not stated.Returned to the party they had left.
Joined a partyFebruary 26, 1974From the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.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.
IndependentToProgressive Conservative Party of Canada
Roch La Salle (1974)
Whether a general election fell between these two dates is not shown here
The verdict depends on how complete the record of general elections is for this jurisdiction, and it is incomplete outside the federal series. An election missing from that table is indistinguishable from an election that never happened, so this page reports the question as open rather than answering it from an absence. The database derives it per leg, together with the reason for every verdict it cannot give.

Where they sat

Compiled affiliation spans — “sat as X from then to then”.

No affiliation spans have been compiled for this person yet. That means the compilation has not been done — it does not mean they never sat with a party.

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.

The record holds five affiliation changes for Roch La Salle, in the House of Commons. On May 4, 1971 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. In 1972 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to Independent. On February 26, 1974 the recorded affiliation changes from Independent to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In 1981 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to the Union Nationale. On August 17, 1981 the recorded affiliation changes from the Union Nationale to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Four of the five event records carry a citation. The other one is a legacy lead with no source cited. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. The record holds no riding, no year of birth and no election result for Roch La Salle. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.
Pending review
Field:
biography
Confidence:
Medium
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-19710504-2F9C37DE — Roch La Salle | 1971-05-04 | Progressive Conservative Party -> Independent — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 441 · MUL
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19740226-035A57FB — Roch La Salle | 1974-02-26 | Independent -> Progressive Conservative Party — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 442 · MUL
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19810101-7595C501 — Roch La Salle | 1981-01-01 | Progressive Conservative Party -> Union nationale — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 443 · MUL
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
- PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
  Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19810817-F7863FAF — Roch La Salle | 1981-08-17 | Union nationale -> Progressive Conservative Party — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 444 · MUL
  Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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

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Biography

Affiliation changes on record

Every event this person is recorded as taking part in, oldest first. Each links to the full record with its sources.

Roch La Salle (1971)

Single sourcePending review

May 4, 1971

Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependentTo 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.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.

Roch La Salle (1972)

UnverifiedLegacy lead

1972year only

Roch La Salle (1974)

Single sourcePending review

February 26, 1974

IndependentToProgressive Conservative Party of CanadaFrom the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left the crossbench for a partyThe return leg: a member sitting outside every caucus joins one. Sometimes the caucus they had left, sometimes another.What you may rely onThat the member ended in a caucus. Whether a general election fell between the departure and this return is the question that separates two very different sequences, and it is answered per leg by `independent_return_intervals`, not by this badge.How it countsCounted toward neither total. The outbound leg of the same episode is already counted as a departure to the crossbench, and adding this one would count a single person twice for one episode.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.

Roch La Salle (1981)

Single sourcePending review

1981year only

Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToUnion NationaleTo 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.

Roch La Salle (1981)

Single sourcePending review

August 17, 1981

Union NationaleToProgressive Conservative 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.

Crossbench episodes

Left the caucus1972year onlyTo the crossbench

Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaToIndependent

Roch La Salle (1972)

Between the twoOne of the two dates is not known to the day, so the interval is not stated.Returned to the party they had left.

Joined a partyFebruary 26, 1974From the crossbench

IndependentToProgressive Conservative Party of Canada

Roch La Salle (1974)

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.

Pending review

Field:: biography
Confidence:: Medium
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-19710504-2F9C37DE — Roch La Salle | 1971-05-04 | Progressive Conservative Party -> Independent — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 441 · MUL
Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19740226-035A57FB — Roch La Salle | 1974-02-26 | Independent -> Progressive Conservative Party — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 442 · MUL
Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19810101-7595C501 — Roch La Salle | 1981-01-01 | Progressive Conservative Party -> Union nationale — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 443 · MUL
Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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
PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)
Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19810817-F7863FAF — Roch La Salle | 1981-08-17 | Union nationale -> Progressive Conservative Party — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 444 · MUL
Cited here because it is the source already attached to the affiliation event this paragraph restates. 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