Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli looks on as Liberal leader and Ontario's new Premier Kathleen Wynne speaks to reporters.

The new premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne made her first official visit to Ottawa today, extending an olive branch to her Liberal colleagues here.

Neither Ottawa-Vanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur, nor Bob Chiarelli, MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, backed Wynne’s leadership bid — they instead supported challenger Sandra Pupatello. But both managed to garner a cabinet post under the new Wynne regime.

Meilleur held on to her role as community safety and correctional services minister, Chiarelli, was named energy minister. Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi, who as party president remained neutral during the leadership race, was tapped for the labour portfolio. The outgoing premier, Ottawa South MPP Dalton McGuinty, also remained neutral.

During a visit to broadcasting equipment maker Ross Video in the city's south end, Wynne described the recent leadership campaign that replaced Dalton McGuinty as “not a divisive or rancorous process.”

“I wouldn’t say that there are any rifts between me and any of my colleagues standing here,” said Wynne.

Chiarelli also characterized the leadership race in similar terms.

"This was one of the least controversial leadership campaigns in the history of the province of Ontario,” said Chiarelli. “So, the day the results came in, we were together on the same page, the same team.”

With a provincial budget to table and Ontario $250 billion in debt, half of that racked up during outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty's tenure, it was “the same page, same team” that reporters wanted to talk about, while Wynne tried to steer the conversation toward employment.

After the Ross Video photo-op and brief question and answer with reporters there, Wynne attended a ceremonial contract signing between the city and the Rideau Transit Group that will construct the first phase of the city’s light rail transit system.