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OTTAWA – NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair will be trying to position himself at home and abroad this week as Canada’s only authentic progressive option, as Liberals vote for their next leader and frontrunner Justin Trudeau continues to stake his ground.

Mulcair will first flaunt his title as Leader of the Opposition on Thursday at the Progressive Governance conference in Copenhagen, a meeting of the world’s centre-left political movements.

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Then he’ll be back in Canada, overseeing his party’s policy convention next weekend in Montreal. The fact it’s happening at the same time as the new Liberal leader will be announced doesn’t seem to faze Mulcair, who says several thousand members will be at the event.

“People in the NDP are very excited,” Mulcair said in an interview. “This is our time. Now, after 50 years of hard work, we’re poised to form a government for the first time and people are energized about that, they’re excited about it.”