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Calgary - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is not ruling out quitting after winning fewer than expected seats in Monday's election. Conservative party strategists are also sifting through the election results to figure out what went wrong. The party was unable to make the breakthroughs in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Ontario it had expected at the start of the campaign. The Conservatives ended up with 99 seats. Instead the party is back in opposition: shut out of Quebec; only 24 seats in Ontario; in Atlantic Canada the party lost ground to the Liberals. Montreal - The leader of the Bloc Qubcois says he's ready to work with the Liberal minority government, but he'll take it one issue at a time. Gilles Duceppe appeared before the media Tuesday, a day after his party won 54 of the province's 75 seats, tying a 1993 record set under former leader Lucien Bouchard. The Bloc leader said there are three issues he'll push in the next session of Parliament: health care funding, the surplus in Employment Insurance premiums collected by the federal government and the distribution of federal funds among the provinces. Ottawa - A strategist for the Conservative party says members should be campaigning now for the next election. 'There is no win until there is a majority," Tim Powers said on CBC Newsworld, quoting Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
