Liberal Party to join the Conservative Party. September 17, 2018: The five remaining MPs of Québec debout, Rhéal Fortin, Monique Pauzé, Louis Plamondon, Gabriel Ste-Marie, and Luc Thériault rejoin the Bloc Québécois. March 11, 2019: Catherine Fournier, MNA, leaves the Parti Québécois to sit as an independent, citing the party's lack of commitment to the sovereignist ideology. 2020s January 16, 2020: Amanda Simard, MPP for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, having previously resigned from the Ontario PC caucus in September 2018 due to the government's Franco-Ontarian policies, joins the Ontario Liberal Party. June 10, 2021: Jenica Atwin, MP for Fredericton, leaves the Green Party to join the Liberal Party. March 7, 2022: Lela Evans, MHA for Torngat Mountains, having previously resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, joins the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party. Other changes The following list contains items that, while not generally considered crossing the floor, may be similar in nature. In 1979, Pauline Jewett, who had been a Liberal MP from 1963 to 1965, returns to Parliament as a New Democrat. In 1997, David MacDonald, who had been a Progressive Conservative MP from 1965 to 1980 and 1988 to 1993, was a candidate to re-enter Parliament as a New Democrat, but was not elected. February 2, 2004: André Bachand, Joe Clark, and John Herron remain Progressive Conservative MPs (and are officially designated as independent Progressive Conservatives) when the Progressive Conservative Party merges with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada. Herron runs as a Liberal candidate in the 2004 election but is unsuccessful. In 2004, Canadian Alliance MP Chuck Cadman lost his party renomination race, but ran for re-election as an independent and won. The election resulted in a minority Liberal government, and Cadman's controversial vote to support a 2005 Liberal budget amendment, a confidence vote, was decisive in sustaining the Liberal government. In 2004, former NDP MP Chris Axworthy, who had resigned from Parliament in 1999, attempts to return to the House of Commons as a Liberal but is unsuccessful. He suffers a second defeat in 2006. Former British Columbia NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh was elected as a Liberal MP in the 2004 federal election. Former provincial cabinet minister and former Quebec Liberal MNA Lawrence Cannon was elected as a Conservative MP in the 2006 federal election and subsequently became Minister of Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities and later Minister of Foreign Affairs.