Statement of the obvious

Michael Ignatieff reminds everyone how our democracy works.

If the governor general wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a government, then we try to form a government," Ignatieff told CBC’s Peter Mansbridge in an exclusive interview Tuesday afternoon.

"That’s exactly how the rules work and what I’m trying to say to Canadians is, I understand the rules, I respect the rules, I will follow them to the letter and I’m not going to form a coalition. What I’m prepared to do is talk to Mr. Layton or Mr. Duceppe or even Mr. Harper and say, ’We have an issue, and here’s the plan that I want to put before Parliament, this is the budget I would bring in,’ and then we take it from there."