Alex Burton may not be as well known as Justin Trudeau or Joyce Murray, but he will be marked as the first Liberal leadership contender to make his name known in Prince George.
Burton is stopping in the city late Thursday afternoon on the tail-end of a cross-country bus tour.
He will meet with fellow Liberals at John Duncan Law offices (251 George St.) from 5 to 6 p.m. before heading back to his home of Vancouver.
Now a Crown prosecutor in the organized crime unit for the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General and president of the Vancouver Kingsway Electoral District Association, Burton has zigzagged around the globe. The married father of two, has lived, studied or worked in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver Island, New Zealand and Thailand.
The race to rebuild the federal Liberal party culminates in the April 2013 leadership vote. Burton stands in contention with other declared candidates Trudeau, former MP and leadership hopeful Martha Hall Findlay, Ontario lawyers Deborah Coyne and David Bertschi, former president of the B.C. branch of the Liberal Party David Merner, economist Jonathan Mousley and retired Canadian Forces officer Karen McCrimmon. Vancouver MP Murray is also expected to announce her candidacy.
The winner will permanently fill the void left by Michael Ignatieff's 2011 resignation. Interim leader Bob Rae is not entering the race.
