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MONTREAL — Federal Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau insists he has what it takes to match his famous father's talents in political leadership.

The 40-year-old MP says he's the right man for the job his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, inherited three years before Justin was born.

"The young Trudeau has the abilities of the old Trudeau," he told QMI Agency's French TV network, TVA.