The Ontario Progressive Conservatives continued to ready themselves for the next provincial election by nominating Robert de Verteuil to run in the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh Thursday.
This will be the 39-year-old de Verteuil’s second attempt at claiming the riding.
He finished third in the 2011 campaign behind Liberal finance minister Dwight Duncan, who won’t run in the next election, and NDP candidate Andrew McAvoy.
De Verteuil, who is a business development manager in the automotive field, said he learned much from his first campaign.
“The last time, we got distracted and never really talked about jobs and debt a lot,” said de Verteuil, who lives in Windsor with his wife and soon to be three children.
“I think that’s what people want to talk about this time, jobs, debt and cutting spending. Debt threatens everything and at some point it destroys institutions.”
With rumours that Liberal leadership candidate Sandra Pupatello will contest the riding if she’s successful in grabbing the top job, de Verteuil knows a traditionally difficult riding for the PCs won’t likely get any easier this time despite Duncan retiring from politics.
“I’ve already run against the finance minister, so to me it doesn’t matter who it is running,” de Verteuil said. “To me they’re the same, tax and spend.”
