Leader profile: Sonia Furstenau of the BC Green Party [Video]

She loves to swear, likes pinball and was a track star in high school. She’s also the only British Columbia party leader who’s been through an election in that role before.

Meet the BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau.

“This is my life,” says Furstenau while playing pinball at an arcade in downtown Victoria with the start of the election campaign still 10 days away. “How many balls do I have to juggle at the same time?”

Furstenau gets a kick out of pinball. She says it’s a lot like politics.

“You never know what’s going to happen next in politics, as we saw a couple weeks ago when an entire political party was folded in a backroom,” says Furstenau, referring the shocking collapse of BC United.

The arcade game brings back memories of her teenage years in Edmonton. But it’s running that was her real passion in high school. She was an Edmonton city champ, ranked second …