If you’re a federal Liberal supporter and you’re looking for a candidate who will merge the party with the NDPs or Greens, George Takach is not the man you want as leader.

Takach, 55, a Toronto lawyer, bleeds nothing but Liberal red.

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OTTAWA -- Call him the e-candidate.

George Takach, a Toronto technology lawyer and self-professed computer geek, is joining the federal Liberal leadership race, determined to drag the party -- and eventually the country -- into the 21st century.

Today I enter public life as a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

It's a decision I did not take lightly. My fellow candidates are hard-working men and women of integrity and passion, and I am privileged to share the stage with them.

Many people have asked me why I am running for the leadership without ever having run for office before. My answer is simple: sometimes our decisions are dictated to us by the times in which we live. I want to bring my deep leadership experience to the Liberal Party and the broader world of politics at a crucial time in our history.