B.C. Green Party house leader Rob Botterell is ready to get back to work after a somewhat contentious three-month party leadership race.

That contest nearly devolved into a legal battle over the process for verifying the identity of new members, several thousand of whom signed up over the summer to enable them to cast a vote.

"The summer session of musical chairs is over, and the political shenanigans seem to be dying down — at least a bit for now," Botterell said.

But the B.C. Greens still have some unanswered questions. The landslide leadership victory of 25-year-old climate activist Emily Lowan will have major implications for the direction of the party, and she clearly has some different ideas about where to take things compared to its two sitting MLAs.

The B.C. legislature begins

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