The Ontario government is raising the number of seats in the legislature required to achieve official party status just months after the provincial election that saw the Liberals slip below the current threshold.
Progressive Conservative House Leader Todd Smith said yesterday the new minimum to be laid out in the fall economic statement later this week will be 10%of the house, or 12 seats, up from eight.
Smith denied it's an attempt to stymie the Liberals, who fell from being the governing party to one seat short of official party status in the spring election.
Interim Liberal leader John Fraser said the government's decision is needlessly divisive and disrespectful to the roughly 1.1 million people who voted for Liberals.