Relax Dalton... it's only a bad thing...

...when CTV and Mickey Ignatieff say it is...

McGuinty's Liberal government is more than halfway through its second mandate -- with an election scheduled for October 2011 -- and it wouldn't be unusual for a premier to prorogue the legislature and return with a throne speech outlining a new government agenda.

However, the backlash faced by Harper has McGuinty taking his time to make a decision about proroguing, which he insisted is not always a bad thing for a government leader to do.