The quartering of Canada
IT WAS hardly a triumph. Jean Chrétien, Canada's prime minister, made the best he could of his election victory on June 2nd. For the first time in nearly half a century, he said, the Liberals had won two successive majorities in the federal parliament. But, although he said he was determined to lead Canada into the next century, the modest scale of the victory—his party holds only 155 of the 301 House of Commons seats—means that he may not.
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