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MONTREAL — Justin Trudeau usually moves through a crowd at a brisk pace, stopping just long enough to pose for a photo and express his gratitude before reaching for the next outstretched hand.

An older man at the Royal Canadian Legion in Longueuil, Que., a city on the south shore of Montreal, received a little more than the usual amount of attention when he asked Trudeau a question.

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“We are not touching capital gains on private homes,” Trudeau said to him Wednesday afternoon, raising his voice a bit so that it was heard by others, too.

The Conservatives have repeatedly said the Liberals would impose a stiff tax on home sales. The Liberals have repeatedly denied it.

“That is one of those things that Conservatives are spreading and it is totally false,” Trudeau told the man at the legion, before smiling and moving to greet the next person.

The Liberal leader has been talking more about polarization and divisiveness on the campaign trail, including by saying, when asked to share his greatest regret, that he wonders whether he could have done more to stop it.