OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jean Chretien steamrolled Monday to his largest election win yet, the first time since World War Two that any Canadian leader has won three consecutive majorities in Parliament. Chretien boldly called an election only 3-1/2 years into his five-year mandate, defying his advisers and legislators, in order to capitalize on a lofty lead in the polls and to catch the young but surging small-government Canadian Alliance opposition off guard.

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