One of the most desperate "fear of the unknown" campaigns in Canadian history was famously launched by the Liberal Party of Canada, which had then been in power for 13 years, during the 2004 and 2006 federal elections against a then relatively unknown Stephen Harper. They literally relied on emotional fear:
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We have since gotten so used to all those soldiers in our cities with guns, we don't even notice them anymore.