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Well, Kitimat just helped its first ever dog mayor election and the golden retriever named Gus beat Coco by 569 votes to 500 to 435.

The lighthearted campaign.

It was designed to get young people interested in voting, and the turnout rose from 22% to 32%.

So let's talk about this with Cameron Orr, Kitimat's business and communications manager.

He's going to help us explain whether a dog mayor can actually teach kids about democracy.

Cameron, welcome to the program.

Why choose dogs rather than a more traditional campaign? Like you could have done a student forum.

There are other less divisive ways to get people interested in politics, even at the local level.

Take, for example, Kitimat, British Columbia.

The B.C. North Coast mountain town added a whole new position to council for voters to weigh in on.

What did they add to try to get people jazzed about voting? Class clown.

Of the dogs.

Okay, that's still cute.

There is a human mayor, but there is also, now in Kitimat, a dog mayor.

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We will see.

There's another municipality in the north that you wanted to talk about, so I'm just going to quickly turn it over to there, and that is Kitimat and Terrace.

I know the polls are now closed, but why were these two municipalities on your list of things to watch tonight, Ian?

Right.

Well, they're kind of gateway to Prince Rupert, I suppose.

But I picked Kitimat in particular because it's a fairly small place on the northwest coast at the end of the Douglas Channel.

But most recently, we saw the announcement of the doubling in size of the LNG plant there.

which is going to mean over the course of this electoral term that's upcoming, Kitimat is poised to perhaps have one of the largest economic development or economic growth surges in its history and maybe in BC's history as well.

We have a very, uh, big energy natural gas industry in the northeastern portion of our province.

We obviously have the export terminals, both, uh, down in Vancouver for oil and natural gas up in Kitimat.

So, um, we share a lot of, uh, shared economic interests.

And I'm a true believer.

Next up, European Union, 42.8 billion.

So to put this into, uh, perspective, or put it into con- To put this into perspective, this 42.8 billion, uh, the LNG Canada Phase 2 project, LNG project in Kitimat, that's a $33 billion project.

All of our exports to the EU are 42 billion.

So even if we doubled that, and that would be great.