(Canada) Ontario's re-elected premier touts "major minority"

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"Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is ruling out making deals with other parties, and says he is proud of the "major minority" his party was elected to on Thursday night.

"I’m honoured and thrilled to receive the mandate that we have in fact received," McGuinty said at a Friday morning news conference in Ottawa after Thursday's election, in which his Liberal Party came up just one seat shy of a majority.

McGuinty said he wouldn't initiate formal negotiations with either the Progressive Conservatives or the NDP, saying he is convinced the opposition parties will want to support the Liberal agenda.

“So if there is a party that has properly positioned itself to ensure that we inspire the confidence, not only of Ontarians but the other two parties themselves, it’s our party,” he said.

He also dismissed talk of of getting a majority through recounts in ridings where the vote was close. "I’m going to proceed on the assumption that we are where we are, which is what I’d like to call a major minority," McGuinty said."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/07/ontario-premier-dalton-mcguinty.html

The Liberals fell 1 seat short of a majority government(You need 54 seats here to become a majority). Between the Liberals and the "Progressive" Conservatives, who ran a really disastrous train-wreck campaign, it's a good night.

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1. How can one be both 'progressive' and a 'conservative'?

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Ask Teddy Roosevelt

!!

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3. Here, the PC's

were generally a centrist party up until about 15 years ago when they were taken over by a man who made them into a Regan-style party. They had a moderate leader for a while but Mr Hudak is no moderate.

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4. Thanks.

[Canuckistanian]

5. We've been asking that same question for decades

I remember my 6th grade teacher pointing out the absurdity of it.