Floor Crossing

• BC United MLA defects to BC Conservatives just months before provincial election

  With fewer than five months to go before B.C.'s provincial election, a high-profile BC United MLA from the interior has defected to the BC Conservatives.

  Politics

  May 31, 2024
  
• UCP’s Jason Kenney pitches fixed vote date, changes to tax rules ahead of spring election

  Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says if he wins the spring election, he will bring in democratic reforms on everything from floor-crossing to desk-thumping.

  Money

  Feb 14, 2019
  
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• Andrew Scheer tells caucus he has message for Justin Trudeau: ‘bring it on’

  The Conservative leader used the first caucus meeting of the sitting to blast the Liberals as not up to facing the challenges in the world.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2018
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• Former floor-crossing law not a violation of rights: Manitoba judge after Fletcher lawsuit

  A Manitoba law that forbade members of the legislature from switching party caucuses did not violate the Charter of Rights,

  Politics

  Jun 20, 2018
• Danielle Smith says in hindsight floor cross was ‘very, very naive’

  Former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith says she now realizes she was very naive when she crossed the floor, and says that she was sold a bill of goods by former premier Jim Prentice.

  Politics

  May 7, 2015
• A brief history of floor crossing in Ottawa

  Stewart Campbell of Nova Scotia MP in August 1868 became the first MP to ever cross the floor. Over the next 146 years, 270 more followed in his footsteps.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2015
• Cabinet minister has ‘open mind’ to Wildrose floor crossings

  Premier Jim Prentice's caucus is discussing a bid by as many as six official Opposition members to cross the floor — and at least one cabinet minister says he's keeping an "open mind."

  Politics

  Dec 17, 2014