OTTAWA — Filmmaker and activist Avi Lewis formally entered the NDP leadership race on Friday with a populist message, promising to champion “the many” over “the money.”

Lewis vowed in a slickly produced launch video to take the fight to the corporate oligarchs who are “hoarding extreme wealth (and) foreclosing on our shared future.”

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“These days, every politician claims to be shocked by the cost (of living),” said Lewis, dressed casually in shirtsleeves while walking the streets of downtown Vancouver.

“What they don’t talk about is why: the billions in profit for the tiny group of corporations that control every part of our economy. Three phone providers, three grocery giants, five oil companies and the five big banks that fund them,” he added.

Lewis also said he’d

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