List of Canadian Politicians Who Have Crossed The Floor - 2000s

2000s

• April 2000 - André Harvey, MP, Progressive Conservative to independent.
• September 12, 2000 - David Price, MP, and Diane St-Jacques, MP, Progressive Conservative to Liberal; André Harvey, former PC MP, independent since April, also joined the Liberals at the same announcement. St-Jacques and Price reportedly told PC leader Joe Clark months earlier that they would leave the party.
• September 27, 2000 - Rick Laliberte, NDP MP, sits as a Liberal and later switched to independent for the 2004 election.
• 2001 - Jean-Guy Carignan, Liberal MP, to Independent-Liberal, to Liberal to Independent.
• 2001 - Jim Melenchuk and Ron Osika leave the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan when the party leaves the coalition with NDP. Both decide to continue to support the government and stay in cabinet. In the 2003 election both run for the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan and are defeated.
• 2001 - MPs Art Hanger, Chuck Strahl, Gary Lunn, Jim Pankiw, Val Meredith, Grant McNally, Jay Hill, Jim Gouk, Monte Solberg, Andy Burton, Brian Fitzpatrick, Deborah Grey, and Inky Mark were either expelled from or voluntarily left the Canadian Alliance caucus after publicly criticizing party leader Stockwell Day, and sat as an "Independent Alliance Caucus". Hanger, Gouk, Solberg, Fitzpatrick and Burton returned to the Alliance at the end of the summer; the remaining MPs continued to sit as the Democratic Representative Caucus. All but Mark and Pankiw eventually rejoined the Alliance by 2002.
• 2002 - Inky Mark, Democratic Representative Caucus MP to independent, then later to the Progressive Conservatives.
• 2002 - Jim Pankiw, Democratic Representative Caucus was denied permission to rejoin the Canadian Alliance and sat the remainder of his term as an independent MP.
• May 2002 - Dennis Fentie, MLA for the Yukon New Democratic Party, leaves the party to join the conservative Yukon Party.
• 2002 - Joe Peschisolido, Canadian Alliance MP to Liberal.
• 2002 - Ghislain Lebel, Bloc Québécois MP, to independent.
• 2003 - Pierre Brien, Bloc Québécois MP, to independent.
• December 11, 2003 - Scott Brison, Progressive Conservative MP to Liberals on the former's merger into the Conservative Party. Also Robert Lanctôt, Bloc Québécois MP, to Liberal.
• February 17, 2004 - John Bryden, Liberal MP sits as an Independent.
• February 25, 2004 - John Bryden, Independent MP, sits with the new Conservative Party. He subsequently lost the Conservative nomination in his riding held shortly after his switch.
• January 14, 2004 - Keith Martin, Canadian Alliance MP, sits as an Independent and announces he intends to seek the Liberal Party's nomination for his riding to protest the former's merger into the Conservative Party. He subsequently won the nomination, won the election and sat in the Liberal caucus until his retirement in 2011.
• June 8, 2004 - Anne Cools, appointed to the Senate as a Liberal, announces that she will be crossing the floor to sit as a Conservative.
• June 29, 2004 - Gary Masyk, Alberta MLA, crosses the floor from the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party to the Alberta Alliance Party.
• November 22, 2004 - Carolyn Parrish, Liberal MP, was suspended from the caucus on November 18 after public comments about the Liberal party and Prime Minister Paul Martin. She decided to sit as an Independent member four days later.
• 2005 - David Kilgour, MP, Liberals to independent.
• May 17, 2005 - Belinda Stronach, MP, Conservative Party to Liberals and joined Paul Martin's cabinet.
• June 6, 2005 - Pat O'Brien, Liberals sits as an Independent MP.
• October 17, 2005 - Bev Desjarlais, NDP, sits as an Independent MP after losing her party's nomination for an upcoming election
• January 13, 2006 - Frank Branch, dean of the New Brunswick legislature and MLA for Nepisiguit, switches his affiliate from Liberal to independent pending a police investigation into his business practices
• February 6, 2006 - David Emerson, MP, Liberals to Conservatives and joined Stephen Harper's cabinet two weeks after the election.
• February 21, 2006 - Michael Malley, New Brunswick MLA for Miramichi-Bay du Vin, Progressive Conservative to independent, after being turned down for a New Brunswick cabinet position and other demands. This move changed the balance of power from a majority government to a minority government in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly.
• April 13, 2006 - Michael Malley switches from independent back to Progressive Conservative while serving as speaker. This is seen as precedent setting.
• January 5, 2007 - Wajid Khan, MP, leaves the Liberals and joins the Conservatives.
• March 29, 2007 - Tim Peterson, MPP in Ontario leaves the Liberals to sit as an independent. On June 6, 2007 Peterson joins the Progressive Conservatives.
• April 17, 2007 - Joan MacAlpine-Stiles and Wally Stiles, spouses and MLAs in the New Brunswick legislature, leave the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick and join the governing New Brunswick Liberal Association.
• August 30, 2008 - Blair Wilson, independent MP who resigned from the Liberal caucus due to allegations of financial impropriety, joins the Green Party of Canada becoming its first ever Member of Parliament.
• October 23, 2008 - André Riedl and Pierre-Michel Auger, Quebec MNA, cross the floor from the ADQ to the governing Liberals.
• November 6, 2009 - Quebec MNAs Éric Caire and Marc Picard leave the ADQ to sit as independents. In 2011, they join the Coalition Avenir Québec.