Editing Canadian Alliance (section)

=== Election aftermath ===
However, the Alliance's failure to win more seats east of Manitoba, along with residual resentments from the Alliance leadership contest and questions about Day's competence, led to caucus infighting. In the spring of 2001, eleven MPs who either voluntarily resigned or were expelled from the party formed the "Independent Alliance Caucus". The group was led by [[Chuck Strahl]] and included Grey. Day offered the dissidents an amnesty at the end of the summer, but seven of them, including Grey and Strahl, turned it down and formed their own parliamentary grouping, the [[Democratic Representative Caucus]]. The DRC formed a coalition with Clark's Tories in the House, which was widely seen as an attempt by Clark to reunite the Canadian right on his terms. The split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, former Reform MP [[Stephen Harper]] defeated Day at [[Canadian Alliance leadership elections#2002 leadership election|the subsequent leadership election]].

Once Harper assumed the leadership, most of the rebellious MPs rejoined the Alliance. Two MPs did not rejoin, however: [[Inky Mark]] chose to remain outside of caucus, and eventually joined the Tories, and the scandal-plagued [[Jim Pankiw]] was rejected when he applied for readmission to the Alliance caucus.