Complex sentence: Vautour was elected in the 1997 election as a New Democrat, as part of a Maritime breakthrough for the party as a result of the Chrétien government's controversial reforms of the Unemployment Insurance system.
Split into simpler sentences: Vautour was elected in the 1997 election as a New Democrat, as part of a Maritime breakthrough for the party. Some credit the NDP's success to the Liberal Party government's controversial reforms of the Unemployment Insurance system.