He has to appear confident, but not too confident; exude momentum but not too much; to veer leftward but not can't alienate centrist voters

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VICTORIA — “Friends, pinkos and separatists, lend me your votes.”

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Mark Carney wasn’t quite as churlish as to insult his left-of-centre rivals but his pitch from the upper deck of Victoria’s Empress Hotel, overlooking the harbour, was to appeal to progressive voters to “vote with me, for positive reasons, regardless of which party you supported in the past.”

“We need to come together to fight Donald Trump together,” he said.

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