It was supposed to be a just another photo op for a newly-crowned party leader, but the now infamous snapshot of then-incoming Prime Minister Paul Martin surrounded by a transition team that included some of Ottawa's most influential lobbyists may go down in Canadian political history as the beginning of the end for the Liberal Party's record-breaking tenure in office.

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