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NOVEMBER 28, 2000

Canada's controlling party has kept its hold on politics in the country, according to preliminary results from Monday's national elections.

Jean Chretien has led the Liberal Party to be the first Prime Minster to three consecutive majority party wins since the 1940s. Nationwide, the party has won 173 seats, a gain of 12.

The party's primary competitor, the Canadian Alliance, has 67 seats, a gain of nine. First Nations leaders criticized the party for its stances on treaty rights, self-government, and aboriginal rights.

In British Columbia, where First Nations are engaged in treaty negotiations with the government, the Alliance party now has 27 seats, an increase of three seats. The Alliance's national leader, Stockwell Day, easily won the Okanagan-Coquihalla riding.

Two Liberal office holders in BC lost their seats to Alliance candidates, dropping their total in the province to five.

In New Brunswick, the location of the fishing rights battle between Mik'maq First Nations and the federal government, voters rejected the Alliance. Alliance candidates tried to make fishing rights an issue but the party won no seats.

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