There has been a weightlessness to the Liberal campaign in the past two days, as if their internal polling shows the election is in the bag

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TRURO, N.S. — Mark Carney may be a political novice, but he is quickly learning the value of staged photo ops.

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The new Liberal leader is clearly not in the same league as predecessor Justin Trudeau when it comes to apparently spontaneous, meticulously planned shots, like the time the former prime minister jogged past teenagers on their way to a prom.

Early in the campaign, Carney was in danger of losing a digit when he tried his hand at woodworking at a trades school in Vaughan, Ont.

But the new man is comfortable with anything to do with kids or hockey or, preferably, both.

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