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In 2009, with the world’s attention on the Toronto International Film Festival, the activist author Naomi Klein helped write what came to be known as the Toronto Declaration. Signed by movie stars from Danny Glover to Jane Fonda, it accused TIFF of being “complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine” because of that year’s special spotlight on Tel Aviv. It also drew intense criticism for its opportunistic mixing of art and politics.

Six years later, Klein is set to nail another manifesto to TIFF’s door, and once again offer some divisive politics to the starstruck masses — this time with an eye on the federal election.

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The Leap Manifesto, which launches with a press conference Tuesday in the climactic week of TIFF, near the festival’s downtown epicentre, is focused more on Canadian politics than film or the Middle East. But that focus is so broad — indigenous rights, social inequality, climate change, energy policy, transit, immigration, agriculture and child care — that it seems more like a blur.