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Carney’s Liberals needed 172 seats to achieve a majority mandate. Currently they are elected or leading in 168 seats to the Conservatives 144, while the BQ has 23 seats, the NDP seven, and the Greens one.

“You cannot skate alone on the ice,” said Blanchet. He dismissed notions that the NDP would hold the balance of power rather than the BQ, or that the opposition parties would bring down the government anytime soon.

“Imagine, after having a pretty quick election, that in the middle of the process, we decide to just ruin everything. There would be a price to pay for that,” Blanchet said. “So, without there being a major crisis, unless there is crisis of bad faith, I cannot see any scenario happening other than collaboration for a period of about a year or more.”

Blanchet told a news conference in Montreal聽he had not yet spoken to Carney, but offered “my co-operation, my collaboration, to Mr. Carney’s government 鈥� again, not a blind or naive collaboration, because the Quebec economy is different from the Ontario community.”

He said the conditions for his support include no more talk about pipelines through Quebec, or “offensive” discussions about Quebec’s language and secularism laws 鈥� which the Liberals plan to challenge in the Supreme Court of Canada because of the province’s use of constitutional override powers.聽

“The leaders should get together,” he said in French. “They should meet and establish the terms of a partisan, you know, a period where we will not be looking to score points.

“We don’t want dissension, so I think there needs to be some restraint shown, and I believe that Canadians and Quebecers expect from the new House of Commons, that it be stable and responsible for the entire duration of those negotiations with the U.S.”

While Blanchet said that, for now, “what we need is a truce on sovereignty,” he did not say the Quebec independence movement was dead, and dismissed criticism of the BQ campaign by the separatist Parti Quebecois, calling it “bellicose rhetoric” ahead of a provincial election campaign.

Still, Blanchet said his offer of support would need to be met with goodwill on Carney’s part.

“Co-operation goes both ways. That means that we will co-operate with them and they will co-operate with us for a certain period of time,” he said.

“And that is what the citizens have asked of us. They want us to form a sort of alliance among the parties, so I think we must abstain from trying to score points, one against the other, over the next little while. We have to show restraint in our partisan comments.”

Asked whether the House of Commons will be more co-operative or combative now that the NDP and the Conservative leaders have both lost their seats, Blanchet demurred, saying he didn’t want to “go there now” 鈥� even though three days ago he did just that, predicting NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh would lose his B.C. seat and saying he “would not miss this guy.”

On Tuesday, Blanchet acknowledged that feelings were raw the morning after the election, and any comments he might make wouldn’t help set the “conditions for the better working of the Parliament.”

Blanchet said there is “no future for oil and gas, at least in Quebec and probably everywhere,” adding he has a “brand new weapon” with his party’s leverage of 23 seats in Parliament 鈥� even though his party dropped by 10 seats, including that of BQ House leader Alain Therrien, which helped the Liberals grow their Quebec seat total to 43 from 33.

Blanchet blamed his party’s losses in part on the Liberal focus on “the threat from the White House and the very clever use of the fear in the population.”

“Each time they feared to lose ground, suddenly the 51st state (threat) came back,” Blanchet said.

The NDP won only seven seats in the election, and will soon be leaderless, with Singh saying he will step down as soon as an interim leader is chosen.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was confirmed to have lost his Carleton seat when complete results of the race were released Tuesday morning, but has indicated he wants to stay on to lead the party.

At Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford聽called for quick movement on approvals of major infrastructure projects like an east-west pipeline and axing interprovincial trade barriers.

鈥淚 encourage all parties to work together for the common good,鈥� Ford said.

鈥淭he common good is to make sure that we deliver economic prosperity 鈥� around the country,鈥� he added. 鈥淲e have to bring this country together like we鈥檝e never had before.鈥�

B.C. Premier David Eby echoed the call for unity in the fight against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and thanked Singh.

Eby, a New Democrat, added he has no intention in running for the leadership of the federal NDP, and emphasized that he wants to work with Carney to respond to Trump’s threats against Canada.

“We will be central to the growth of the country’s economy in the years to come, because of our ports, because of our resources, because of our people, and I look forward to working with the prime minister on those shared goals.”

Quebec Premier Fran莽ois Legault said he would be able to work with Carney, calling the Liberal leader “more on the economy than Justin Trudeau.”聽Legault聽said he is on the same “wavelength” as Carney and his finance minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, particularly on the need to drop trade barriers to a “single economy” but he added “we each have our own priorities.”

Legault agreed the Liberals won in large part due to adding seats in Quebec, and said “the best way to thank Quebecers is to take action about the economy, and about immigration.”

“Temporary immigrants have to be properly controlled,” he said, thanking Poilievre for raising that issue, as well as making cost of living issues a priority during the campaign.

With files from Rob Ferguson