This promises to be the most absurd federal election since 2000, when Jean Chrétien was facing four opposition parties of somewhat equivalent strength (PC, NDP, Reform and the Bloc), ensuring he could not possibly lose, in an election he called prematurely, to try to stifle the majority of his own party who were unimpressed with him. The sequence of events he set in motion ended with Chrétien becoming the only incumbent elected prime minister in the history of Canada to be turfed out of office mid-term by his own party.
