Dalton McGuinty achieved an impressive triumph for the Liberal Party in last week's Ontario Province elections, winning the premiership by an impressive 10-point margin over his nearest competitor.

McGuinty won the premier's post with a 42 percent vote, a substantial plurality figure.  The 52-year-old lawyer held a solid edge over John Tory of the Liberal Progressives.  Tory achieved a 32 percent figure.

It is good news for progressives that McGuinty triumphed by opposing the issue that Tory hoped would propel his party to victory.  That issue was what is termed separation of church and state in the United States.  

Tory sought public funding of faith-based private schools.  His party's loss is seen as a reflection that Ontario's voters rejected the idea of financing through the public treasury parochial schools.