BC Green Party candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Quilchena. His campaign page describes him as a semi-retired craniofacial surgeon and clinical professor.
Douglas Courtemanche is the BC Green Party candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena on Elections BC's list. The other four names on that list are Carson Binda (Conservative Party), Dallas Brodie (OneBC), Petra Kuret (CentreBC) and Callista Ryan (BC NDP). His BC Green Party candidate page says he is a semi-retired craniofacial surgeon, a clinical professor and a health researcher with more than 35 years of experience in British Columbia's health care system. Those are the campaign's statements, and voche.me has not checked them against an independent record. BC Ballot lists no earlier run, term or finance report for him. voche.me found no policy statement in his own words beyond a one-sentence quote on his party page, so the commitments listed on this page are the BC Green Party's platform.
A researched record of Douglas Courtemanche's candidacy in Vancouver-Quilchena for the BC Green Party. His party page gives a career in surgery, teaching and research, which is the campaign's account and is attributed as such. voche.me found no statement of policy in his own words, so the commitments below are the party's platform.
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01 / Introduction
About Douglas Courtemanche
Elections BC lists Douglas Courtemanche as the BC Green Party candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena, on the candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 09:00:06 PM. The same list shows Carson Binda (Conservative Party), Dallas Brodie (OneBC), Petra Kuret (CentreBC) and Callista Ryan (BC NDP) in the district. Nominations close at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026, so more names may be added.
His BC Green Party candidate page, which is campaign text, calls him "a semi-retired craniofacial surgeon, clinical professor and health researcher with more than 35 years of experience caring for patients in British Columbia's healthcare system." It says he grew up in Vancouver-Quilchena, studied medicine at the University of British Columbia and trained as a plastic surgeon. It lists these roles: President of the BC Medical Association's Section of Plastic Surgery, Medical Staff President at BC Children's and Women's Hospital, Clinical Professor in UBC's Department of Surgery since 2008, and investigator with the BC Children's Research Institute. It says he has contributed to more than 80 publications and received the Planetary Health Award from the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons in 2025. voche.me has not checked any of these against the bodies that would know, so each is the campaign's claim.
His page quotes him: "I want to bring my experience caring for people, advocating for patients, teaching students and conducting health research to help people, communities and the planet." It names no policy measure. The BC Green Party's 2026 plan page does not name him, and its full platform is listed as coming soon.
In 2024 Dallas Brodie won Vancouver-Quilchena for the Conservative Party with 11,464 votes (51.58 percent), according to Elections BC's statement of votes. Callista Ryan (BC NDP) received 8,649 votes (38.91 percent) and Michael Barkusky, the BC Green Party candidate, received 1,729 (7.78 percent). BC Ballot says Courtemanche has no previous run, term or finance report on record. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
8 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge
Party platform: 26,000 non-market homes a year
The BC Greens platform page says the party would build and protect 26,000 permanently affordable, non-market homes a year, and make it easier and quicker to build all forms of housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform page. It does not name Douglas Courtemanche, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
The BC Greens platform page says the party's Fair Share Act would make the few hundred richest people in British Columbia pay their fair share, and that it would bring in a windfall tax on mega-corporations.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform page. It does not name Douglas Courtemanche, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
voche.me found no elected or appointed public office for this candidate in the sources read on 2026-10-03, and so found no voting record to review. BC Ballot lists no previous run, term or finance report for him. His campaign page lists professional roles in medicine, which are not public offices and are recorded under experience as the campaign's claims.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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News coverage / Original publishers
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Research / 9 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
His background comes from one page, his BC Green Party candidate page, and each statement on it is the campaign's own claim. The roles, the 2008 appointment, the publication count and the 2025 award were not checked against the BC Medical Association, the hospital, UBC, the BC Children's Research Institute or the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons. No campaign website of his own, social media account tied to this candidacy, news report, interview, all-candidates meeting or endorsement was found on 2026-10-03. His party page links to no social media account, and its events list read "There are no upcoming events". The party's media releases page, read to its newest entries of October 2, 2026, names neither him nor Vancouver-Quilchena. The name search was limited: the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, Bing returned unrelated pages, and DuckDuckGo, Google and Brave refused or returned no readable results. Google News returned pages that name a Doug Courtemanche or a D. J. Courtemanche in medicine and in an environmental health group, and a PubMed search returned papers by a D. J. Courtemanche on cleft and craniofacial care. No page opened states that any of them is this candidate, so none is used. BC Ballot's statement that he has no previous run or finance report is its own and was not checked at Elections BC. The BC Green Party's plan page says its full platform is coming soon. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list, key dates page and 2024 statement of votes; the BC Green Party's candidates page, his candidate page, plan page, media releases page and site search; the BC Ballot pages for him and for Vancouver-Quilchena; and name searches. The name search was limited: the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so voche.me used Google News, Bing, PubMed and the party and news sites directly. Bing returned unrelated pages, and DuckDuckGo, Google and Brave refused or returned no readable results.
His party page is the only source for his background, and it is campaign text, so each biographical statement above is attributed to the campaign. No campaign website of his own, social media account tied to this candidacy, news report or interview was found. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date. The candidate may have published material that these searches did not reach.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Dates not stated
President, BC Medical Association Section of Plastic Surgery
The campaign page says he served in this role. voche.me has not checked it against the association.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Why are you running for the BC Green Party in Vancouver-Quilchena, and what would you do first as MLA?
No response has been submitted.
What would you ask the Province to change first to shorten waits for a family doctor and for surgery?
No response has been submitted.
Which parts of the BC Green Party plan matter most for this district, and where do you differ from it?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Douglas Courtemanche?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Douglas Courtemanche's own campaign.
What party is Douglas Courtemanche running with?
Douglas Courtemanche is running for MLA with BC Green Party.
Does Douglas Courtemanche currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Douglas Courtemanche.
How many sources does this Douglas Courtemanche profile cite?
This profile lists 7 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Douglas Courtemanche's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Douglas Courtemanche in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Douglas Courtemanche is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
