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Paul Martin was a part of the Chretien Government as Finance Minister from 1993-2002.

The election seemed to me to play out much like the US election minus the great number of vote manipulation etc.

People in the states voted for Kerry because they didn't like bush, not because they liked kerry.

People in Canada voted for Harper because they wanted to punish the liberals, or were tired of "corruption" in government and wated a change, not because they thought Harper and the conservatives were the best party to run the country.