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Bruce Cameron, a Black press columnist who含羞草研究社檚 been a pollster and a strategist for more than 35 years, working for Gallup, Decima and Angus Reid before founding his own consultancy, Return on Insight, discusses the results of the B.C. municipal elections.

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Cameron was asked what was the solution to increasing the turnout for local elections.

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