Dalton Mcguinty: Progressive Conservatives

Double Digits Dept: The federal party suffered a historic defeat in May. In Ontario, Dalton McGuinty's two-term Liberal government was trailing Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives by double digits in the polls. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper was musing about a "hat trick," with Conservatives in power in Ottawa, at Queen's Park and in the mayor's office in Toronto, according to Vancouver Sun. That leaves only Ontario and tiny Prince Edward Island as redoubts of Liberal power. So if nothing else, McGuinty's Lazarus-like resurrection, culminating in Thursday's somewhat ambiguous third-straight mandate, is a welcome morale booster for Canada's dwindling tribe of large-l Liberals and scant months ago, things were looking grim for Canadian Liberals. The Liberal brand was battered and hemorrhaging, with diminishing prospects for its survival. True, parties bearing the Liberal label still govern in Quebec and in British Columbia, but they are wholly unlike their namesakes elsewhere. Quebec's Liberal government is led by a former federal Conservative cabinet minister, and is essentially a vehicle for anti-sovereigntist sentiment. B.C.'s Liberal party is a coalition of everyone who fears the socialist hordes. And both are unpopular, with their prospects of re-election hovering between uncertain and improbable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.