Legislators at Queen's Park will be asked by the premier to get involved in the fight over the number of seats Ontario is allocated in the House of Commons.

Premier Dalton McGuinty is going to table a resolution Monday afternoon calling the federal redistribution formula unfair.

McGuinty says British Columbia and Alberta are getting an appropriate number of new seats to account for their expected growth in population, but not Ontario.

Ontario will have 11 fewer seats than warranted by its increased population, according to McGuinty.

"If a matter comes up for a vote in the House of Commons and we have a particular perspective on this as Ontarians, our influence is now reduced and others now have a significantly larger influence," he said.

When McGuinty first criticized the federal legislation, the Conservative House leader Peter Van Loan called him "the small man of Confederation."

McGuinty replied that the province was not going to be bullied into submission.

The resolution to be tabled Monday will call on the Harper government to change the legislation governing seat distribution.