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Justin Trudeau bluntly shut down the possibility of a Liberal-NDP coalition on Thursday after a prominent NDP MP floated the idea as a way of ousting the ruling Conservatives.

“A formal coalition is out of the question,” the Liberal Party leader said at a Winnipeg news conference. “There are a number of issues on which the Liberal party and the NDP disagree on a quite a fundamental level.”

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The remarks followed Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen’s suggestion that the NDP were willing to join forces. In a Wednesday interview with the Canadian Press, Cullen said while winning a majority in this fall’s federal election is still his party’s goal, ultimately the number-one priority is toppling the Tories.

“The Liberal voters that I know are as fed up with Stephen Harper as anybody,” Cullen said.

But Trudeau quickly dismissed the idea Thursday, saying that “Canadians are in desperate need of a better government, not just a different government.”