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Former senior Conservative Party adviser Dimitri Soudas will join the Liberals with partner Eve Adams, who crossed the floor Monday morning, CTV News has learned.

Adams announced Monday morning that she would be leaving the Conservative caucus, where she most recently served as parliamentary secretary to health, to join the Liberal party.

It is not clear in what capacity Soudas will be working with the Liberals. According to CTV Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief Laurie Graham, Soudas will at least work with the Liberals leading into the next election.

Soudas has worked closely with the Conservative party and Prime Minister Stephen Harper as his director of communications. Last year, he was forced out as executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada over allegations about his involvement in Adams Conservative nomination bid for the riding of Oakville-North Burlington. The relationship between Soudas and the Conservatives soured after the split, said Graham.

Dimitri Soudas arrives with a handful, maybe perhaps boxes full, of information, Graham told CTV News Channel. Soudas has a lot of secrets. He tells people that. He knows a lot. He knows what went on in the Prime Ministers Office. He knows a lot more about Stephen Harper than perhaps many around him.

In an interview with CTVs Question Period last May, Soudas described Harper as a father figure.

The news about Soudas comes hours after Adams announced she would be joining the Liberals. She made the announcement alongside Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in Ottawa.

"I no longer feel at home in the Conservative party either politically or intellectually," she said.

Adams said her decision was a "difficult" one, following a hard year with a controversial nomination battle in her riding of Mississauga-Brampton South and health issues. She said she can no longer support the Conservatives, a party she has supported for more than 25 years.

"I can no longer support mean-spirited leadership that divides people instead of bringing them together.

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Former Conservative advisor Dimitri Soudas to join Liberals with Eve Adams