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Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. — Mark Carney has a winking problem.

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He winked at the camera at Rideau Hall on the day he became prime minister.

He winked at a senator when he appeared before a committee last May.

In 2014, the Daily Telegraph remarked on how he tipped the BBC’s then-economic editor Robert Peston the wink during a press conference when he was governor of the Bank of England. The Telegraph interpreted this as Carney letting the recipient of the wink know: “Yeah, we both know this is theatre.”

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