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Percy E. Downe

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Pending reviewLiving-person review: PendingCTF-P-PLI-B03A9BA83994

Biography

The record holds two affiliation changes for Percy E. Downe, in the Senate of Canada. On November 14, 2019 the recorded affiliation changes from the Liberal Party of Canada to the Progressive Senate Group (2019). On November 18, 2019 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Senate Group (2019) to the Canadian Senators Group. One of them is recorded as a leg of a group event. Both event records carry a citation and each cites at least one primary official record. 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 year of birth for Percy E. Downe. 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.

Liberal Party of Canada → Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) (2019-11-14)
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.
November 14, 2019
Liberal Party of CanadaToProgressive Senate Group (2019)Parliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.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.
Percy E. Downe (2019)
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.
November 18, 2019
Progressive Senate Group (2019)ToCanadian Senators GroupParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.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

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 two affiliation changes for Percy E. Downe, in the Senate of Canada. On November 14, 2019 the recorded affiliation changes from the Liberal Party of Canada to the Progressive Senate Group (2019). On November 18, 2019 the recorded affiliation changes from the Progressive Senate Group (2019) to the Canadian Senators Group. One of them is recorded as a leg of a group event. Both event records carry a citation and each cites at least one primary official record. 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 year of birth for Percy E. Downe. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.
Pending review
Field:
biography
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-20191114-356CB4FC — Jane Cordy | 2019-11-14 | Liberal Party of Canada -> Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 190 · 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-20191118-8A790DE6 — Percy E. Downe | 2019-11-18 | Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) -> Canadian Senators Group — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 245 · 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.

Liberal Party of Canada → Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) (2019-11-14)

Single sourcePending review

November 14, 2019

Liberal Party of CanadaToProgressive Senate Group (2019)Parliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.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.

Percy E. Downe (2019)

Single sourcePending review

November 18, 2019

Progressive Senate Group (2019)ToCanadian Senators GroupParliamentary groupWhere the seat went: A parliamentary group is on one side of the change or on bothA parliamentary group is not a party and not the crossbench. It contests no election and holds no seat that voters awarded — the Senate has organised around groups rather than parties since 2016 — so moving into one carries no seat anywhere, and moving out of one is not a withdrawal to sit alone.What you may rely onThat the change involved a group rather than a party. Most such legs are in the Senate; the ones in an elected chamber are listed for review, because a breakaway group of sitting members is a closer thing to a crossing than a Senate group change is.How it countsCounted toward neither total.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.

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:: 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-20191114-356CB4FC — Jane Cordy | 2019-11-14 | Liberal Party of Canada -> Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 190 · 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-20191118-8A790DE6 — Percy E. Downe | 2019-11-18 | Progressive Senate Group (2019-2019) -> Canadian Senators Group — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 245 · 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