David Eby’s journey from activist to Gen X premier [Video]

He has led the province as premier for a little under two years and in that time David Eby has been described as everything from thoughtful and prepared to an extremist and a radical.

A local political podcast even called him an “affable nerd.”

But despite the scrutiny and the range of critiques hurled his way, Eby’s journey to Victoria and the top job in the province is an unlikely story and his family life isn’t all that different from many British Columbians: he lives with his wife and three young children in a strata townhouse complex not far from the public school his son attends.

CTV News sat down with the NDP leader for a one-on-one interview at Zulu Records in Kitsilano, one of his favourite stores.

He has little time for record-shopping these days, but music has been a big part of his life since his teens, when he took piano lessons (reaching the Grade 8 level in …