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A return home of sorts for one of the candidates running for the Federal Liberal leadership.

David Bertschi is a University of Windsor Law graduate and made a campaign style stop to speak with students at the school yesterday. Bertschi was asked about his approach to the race with Justin Trudeau viewed as the front-runner.

“I’ve always been an underdog and that perhaps motivates me,” says Bertschi. “But I also know my country, Canada, has always been great, it’s always allowed people to reach their potential. This is the first time, first generation, that this government is not helping the next generation reach their potential. And I’m driven more by that frankly than by my own personal goals and aspirations.”

Bertschi is five weeks into a cross-country tour that started in Vancouver. A total of nine candidates are running in the race with a new leader to be elected in two-months time.

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by Jonathon Liedtke

David Bertschi wants to be the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and hopefully the next Prime Minister.

Having run in the 2011 federal election, Bertschi made a name for himself running in the riding of Ottawa-Orléans. While he lost to his Conservative opponent by a few percentage points, he achieved the fifth highest amount of Liberal votes in the country and as such increased the party’s popular vote from the prior election.

Both a lawyer and businessman, Bertschi has been travelling by car across the country meeting and listening to Canadians from all political stripes. “You don’t drive across the country … unless you’re serious … I’m in this to rebuild the party.”

What he’s been hearing from liberals regarding the leadership is that they’re “concerned about [candidates] having substance, experience, and providing them with a real alternative to the current government.”

When asked what sets him apart from the current leadership candidates, Bertschi responded “Experience. Having run, owned built and rebuilt small businesses and having been involved in politics as a volunteer, but never beholden to special interests and the party establishment.”

“It’s very difficult for people to rebuild if they’re tied to or beholden to others.” explained Bertschi.

Having been able to both find a job in his own field and purchase a house five years out of law school are memories of a past generation which Bertschi fears are “eroding” from the current generation. Today students who want to work hard [and] who have the capacity to do well, can’t afford a house.”

Concerned that Canada’s political polarized is expanding, Bertschi is worried that polarization isn’t healthy for the “economy, students … small and medium sized businesses and the middle class [as a whole].”

Critical of what he considers to be top-down policies that plague the Liberal Party’s past, Bertchi feels there is a need to rebuild the party and reconnect with liberals to talk “about not only a vision of our country, but also how to implement realistic programs … which is what the liberal party historically has  been able to do. We’ve got to forget the top-down policies [and] listen to Canadians [and] act.

Bertschi is also concerned about the erosion of parliamentary democracy and the believes there to be a need for an increase in respect of democracy overall. He’d like to see members of parliament both actively represent community in parliament and refuse to act as talking heads. “A lot more free votes are needed [and] committee work has to be meaningful.”

“When you talk about a code of conduct in parliament, I believe in a code of conduct. they say they’re professionals, but a lot of them don’t act professionally … we expect far [better behaviour] of our children and grandchildren than we do of our politicians … that’s part and parcel why our institutions are not looked up with respect.”

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