Heidi Redl, the Green Party candidate in Cariboo-Prince George, describes herself as a cattle rancher first and foremost.
Born and raised in the Cariboo, the 48-year-old mother of three now grown children, earned a double-major in German and Russian at the University of Victoria before she and husband Tom moved back to operate an 800-hectare ranch 40 kilometres east of Williams Lake.
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