Arthur Green is a fourth generation Canadian from Hope, B.C. who’s worked as an art department head in the B.C. motion picture industry for 30 years.

Green said he feels positive about the outcome if the election for him in Fraser-Nicola.

“It was never my intention to finish second or third,” said Green. “I’m in it to win it. I know it’s always been strategically difficult to get out the real message of what’s actually happening in the world as far as sustainability and environmental damage [goes]. For me it’s all about the children and our grandchildren and future generations,” said Green.

If elected in the provincial election next May, BC Green Party candidate Arthur Green wants to focus on green energy.

“We’re going to focus on job creation, especially in the renewable energy sectors,” he said.

Before his time in the film industry, Green ran his own financial services company and worked in the mining resource industry as a grid surveyor.

He also said that the Green Party is against the Kinder Morgan pipeline project, and would probably only support it if the project was to remove the existing 60 year old pipeline for the new one.

Green said his party is typically a constituency-first riding and he would go against party lines if the majority of his constituents are for or against a particular issue.

In 2015 he ran as the federal Green Party nominee for the Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon riding, accumulating 2,293 votes and placing fourth in the riding. Liberal Jati Sidhu won with more than 16,000 votes.