A look at Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Green Party [Video]

The leader of British Columbia’s Green Party faces an uphill battle one month before the provincial election as she faces off against an incumbent cabinet minister in a Victoria riding that’s long been held by a New Democrat.

But Sonia Furstenau says returning to Victoria from the Cowichan Valley, where she was first elected to the B.C. legislature in 2017, is a homecoming.

Furstenau says her grandparents and parents met and got married in the city, it’s where she attended university and taught high school, and it’s where the 54-year-old lives just five minutes away from her first grandchild, a baby due in November.

“I’ve picked out the yarn for the baby sweater I’ll be knitting in the next few months,” Furstenau said, adding she is “beyond excited” to become a grandmother.

Furstenau acknowledges it’s “never an easy thing” to get elected as a Green in B.C., noting she’s among …