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• Editorial assessment removed from a verified biography

  The English biography of Matt Jeneroux closed by calling his crossing "particularly notable" and "historically one of the rarest moves in Canadian politics". The first is the project rating the importance of a named living person's decision in its own voice. The second is a claim about frequency that no query in this record establishes and no source was cited for. Both have been removed. Nothing factual was lost: the record holds one participation for him, dated February 18, 2026, from Conservative to Liberal, classified as a crossing and counted as one, and his own stated reasons remain in the biography, attributed to him. No date, affiliation, classification, publication status or verification level was altered.

  September 2, 2026 · material correction

• Insinuation of an improper exchange removed from a verified biography

  The English biography of Brendan Maguire closed by saying that his crossing "drew comparisons to the Belinda Stronach and David Emerson cases due to the perceived quid pro quo". That sentence implied an improper exchange involving three named living people while attributing the implication to no one: it did not say who drew the comparisons or who perceived the exchange, and it cited no source. Nothing in this record supports it. Where this record does document a cabinet appointment made close to a change of affiliation, it says so precisely and stops there: the claims attached to the Stronach and Carmant appointments each state that the timing is documented and that a quid pro quo or other illegal exchange is not established. A biography cannot assert by implication what those claims are careful to disclaim. The sentence has been removed, and the description of his parliamentary secretary appointment no longer carries the adverb that did the same work. What he gave as his reason is unchanged and remains attributed to him. The participation itself, February 22, 2024, Liberal to Progressive Conservative, is classified as a crossing and is still counted as one.

  September 2, 2026 · material correction

• Editorial judgement removed from a verified biography

  The English biography of David Emerson closed by asserting that "his crossing was one of the most controversial in modern Canadian history". This site does not rank named people, living or dead, by how their decisions were received. The project's view of floor crossing is published as an opinion on its methodology page; it is never written into an individual's record, and no source was cited for the assessment. The sentence has been removed. Nothing factual was lost: the record holds one participation for him, dated February 6, 2006, from Liberal to Conservative, classified as a crossing and counted as one, and that date now appears in the biography where the assessment used to be. His offices are unchanged. No date, affiliation, classification, publication status or verification level was altered.

  September 2, 2026 · material correction

• Biography described a crossbench departure as a floor crossing, on the wrong date

  The English and French biographies said Amanda Simard "crossed the floor to the Ontario Liberal Party in November 2020". The record holds no change in November 2020. It holds two: on November 29, 2018 she left the Progressive Conservative caucus to sit as an independent, classified sat_as_independent, and on January 16, 2020 she joined the Ontario Liberal Party from independent status, classified joined_party_from_independent. Her countable crossing total is zero. The single sentence was therefore wrong three ways: it named the wrong month, the wrong year, and an act, a floor crossing, that this record distinguishes from both of the acts she actually performed. Leaving a caucus to sit as an independent is a legitimate response to disagreeing with a party; carrying a seat from one party to another between elections is the act this record counts. The biographies now state both changes separately at their recorded dates and classifications. A closing sentence of editorial praise was also removed. No date, affiliation, classification or verification level in the underlying participation rows was altered.

  September 2, 2026 · material correction

• Broken Wikipedia link corrected

  Corrected wiki_url. The stored value appended a "(politician)" disambiguator that does not exist on English Wikipedia, so the link returned HTTP 404. The replacement was verified on 2026-09-01 by fetching the article summary and confirming it describes the same person (surname match plus Canadian political context). The broken value predates this workflow and was found by a link audit.

  September 1, 2026 · material correction

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