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Kennedy Stewart, NDP MP for Burnaby South and a vocal opponent of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project, is set to make some sort of Vancouver mayoral race announcement on Thursday morning.

Last week, Stewart said he was seriously considering making a run at the mayor’s chair, calling it a “dream job.”

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A poll said that 10 per cent of respondents liked the idea of him as mayor of Vancouver, fifth-most among the options presented.

He told the National Post that he’s been “overwhelmed” with calls from supporters — “probably the most positive ones I’ve had in my political career.”

Adriane Carr was the preferred choice of a third of respondents.

Stewart was arrested in March at a protest at Kinder Morgan’s facility on Burnaby Mountain alongside Green party leader Elizabeth May, for which he may be charged with criminal contempt of court. He says he felt it was the last stand he could take to protest what looked like the beginning of construction of the pipeline expansion. Since then, Kinder Morgan has suspended non-essential spending on the project, pending assurances from the federal government that the pipeline will be built.