The last time Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May was in the River City, she was greeted by pajama-clad supporters in the dark of night, with the mercury just above freezing.

It was all part of her whistle-stop tour during the early part of last fall’s federal election.

May was back in Kamloops on Sunday for the local riding association’s AGM — albeit under warmer conditions and in the light of day.

While the Green leader was treating her stay in town as more of a vacation stop, politics wasn’t far from her mind.

Surrounded by an intimate group of what appeared to be more like friends than supporters at the Art We Are on Victoria Street, May talked about the future of the party — more specifically, her belief Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government will fall during the next confidence vote in the House of Commons on Sept. 28.

Barring any significant shift in the alignment of the opposition parties, May said there will be another election.

“If the government loses a confidence vote — which I think they will — and there’s no coalition option, we’re going to the polls,” she predicted.

If that turns out to be the case, May said her party is the most prepared of any for another vote.

And, though the party managed to get more than one-million votes in the last election, May recognized it didn’t lead to a breakthrough in Parliament so the party has changed its strategy.

May explained in the last election, the Greens ran a strong national campaign without a specific focus on any one riding.

The party thought the plan was good enough to get a few members elected.

Since it didn’t turn out to be, May said the next campaign will be far more focused and committed to making sure the leader is elected, which happens to be her.

May, who ran in Nova Scotia in 2008, collecting 32 per cent of the vote, is now looking at ridings across Canada that could be Green-friendly — including B.C.

“I feel an obligation as leader to look beyond my home base to be prepared to run in the place where there is the greatest opportunity where local citizens want to have a Green MP,” she said.

If the party leader does choose a riding in the Pacific time zone, it’s a move the local Green candidate would applaud.

Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo candidate Donovan Cavers, who was acclaimed at the ridings annual general meeting, said he would love to see May take a run in the province.

As for his own campaign, Cavers indicated he’ll be canvassing during the summer months in preparation for a fall election.