This record covers Keerit Jutla's career history, the claims made on the Vote Vancouver campaign page, and what independent sources confirm. Sources are dated up to October 3, 2026.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 3, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
Housing supply and rental rules1/10
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A position in the candidate’s own words
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 9 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on housing: 9 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council sets zoning, approves rezonings and development permits, and makes rental and tenant-protection bylaws under the Vancouver Charter. The province sets rent increase limits and tenancy law.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on homelessness and drugs: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council funds shelter sites, street cleaning and city outreach, and decides where supportive housing is approved. Health services, treatment beds and drug policy are provincial and federal.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council approves the police budget. The Vancouver Police Board, not Council, directs the police department. Fire and rescue services report to the city.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on transport: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The city owns and designs its streets, bike lanes, sidewalks and parking rules. Buses, SkyTrain and SeaBus are run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Council sets the property tax rate each year, approves the operating budget, and approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for buildings and infrastructure.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on climate: 2 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings that other BC cities cannot.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 3 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on culture: 3 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The city licenses venues and events, sets noise and business rules, and funds cultural grants and spaces. Liquor licensing is shared with the province.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on child care: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and development contributions. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding are provincial.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council issues business licences, sets licence and permit fees, zones commercial and industrial land and approves business improvement areas under the Vancouver Charter. Employment law, sales taxes and income taxes are provincial and federal.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Keerit Jutla
Keerit Jutla appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 106. The City records the affiliation as Vote Vancouver.
The party page says Jutla is CEO and founder of Invicta Metals Corp. and was president and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration. The page says Jutla was called to the bars of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Yukon and practised Aboriginal and regulatory law. The page says Jutla holds a JD and an MBA in energy and natural resources.
Jutla appears on the 2026 Vancouver ballot as candidate number 106 for city council, running with Vote Vancouver.
The campaign page says Jutla is a lawyer and business leader who holds a JD, an MBA in energy and natural resources, and a master's degree in political science, and is called to the bars of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Yukon.
The Association for Mineral Exploration gave a fuller education record in 2023: a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Arts in political science from the University of Windsor, and an MBA and Juris Doctor from the University of Alberta with an applied focus on natural resources and Aboriginal law.
The Wikipedia article on the 2026 Vancouver municipal election describes Jutla as a lawyer and chief executive of Invicta Metals.
Vote Vancouver is the party led by sitting city councillor Rebecca Bligh, who is the party's candidate for mayor. Jutla is one of six Vote Vancouver council candidates.
Two public registries were checked on October 3, 2026. The Law Society of British Columbia lists Jutla as a practising lawyer, called to the bar in British Columbia on May 8, 2018, with no discipline history, no practice restrictions and no current regulatory proceedings, and gives Invicta Metals Corporation as his main place of practice. The BC company registry lists Invicta Metals Corp. as an active company, registered on October 31, 2025.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
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.
7 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · GovernanceCampaign pledge
Open decision-making at city hall
The campaign page says Jutla believes decisions about the city should be made "in the open, not behind closed doors".
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The sentence is on Jutla's candidate page on the Vote Vancouver site, which is written about him in the third person. The same words are in the VoteMate biography, which VoteMate labels as submitted by the candidate or their team. It names no rule, process change, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which council practices Jutla would change, and by what mechanism.
The candidate page says Jutla believes growth "should happen for residents, not to them".
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The words are on the candidate page and in the VoteMate biography. The sentence speaks of growth in general and names no housing, zoning or consultation measure, so voche.me tags it to no scored issue. A person can change the tag if a source ties it to one.
What still needs checking
What Jutla would change about how Vancouver consults on rezonings and area plans.
The Vote Vancouver housing page, written in Rebecca Bligh's name, says the party would work with community land trusts and community organizations to build more co-op and community housing while keeping public land in community ownership; simplify and speed up the development process; use public land to build permanently affordable homes for middle-income earners, with not-for-profit childcare included in new developments; make it easier to redevelop qualifying sites into mixed-use communities with new homes, in a section that begins with land owned by faith-based communities; and work to replace unsafe single-room occupancy buildings with affordable supportive housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform, published on the party website. Its text names Rebecca Bligh, the party's candidate for mayor, as the person who will act and does not name Jutla. His candidate page carries none of these commitments in his own words.
What still needs checking
Whether Jutla states a personal position on any of the party housing items.
2026 · Open decision making at councilCampaign pledge
Open decision making at council
The page says Jutla believes decisions about the city should be made in the open.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The same statement as the entry "Open decision-making at city hall" above, recorded a second time. Both come from the sentence on Jutla's candidate page.
What still needs checking
Which council practices Jutla would change, and by when.
The page says Jutla would bring experience negotiating and building consent-based partnerships to city council.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the reason Jutla gives for running, and it draws on his career in law and mining. The sentence names no City issue, program, number, cost or date, so it is tagged to no scored issue and earns no points.
What still needs checking
Which City decisions or negotiations Jutla would apply this experience to.
The Vote Vancouver economy page, written in Rebecca Bligh's name, says she will create a Small Business Concierge to help with permits, regulations and City processes; use better technology and simpler processes to cut permit delays; open vacant City commercial spaces to people and groups that can use them; create childcare facilities on underused City land; establish an Arts Council with more independence from City Hall; and work to keep property tax increases in line with inflation.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform. Its text names Rebecca Bligh, the party's candidate for mayor, as the person who will act and does not name Jutla. It gives no cost and no date for any item.
What still needs checking
Whether Jutla states a personal position on any of the party economy items.
Women Transforming Cities, a Vancouver organization, asked candidates to commit to six asks: housing access, transit and mobility, community spaces, food security, public washrooms and gender safety. Its results table marks Jutla as committing to all six.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The results table is an image with no text version, which voche.me read by eye. The page carries no words from Jutla, and the wording of each ask belongs to the organization.
What still needs checking
Which of the six asks he would bring to Council first.
Each entry below names its source. Campaign material is the candidate's own account. Nothing here is presented as a verified outcome unless the entry says so.
Role documented by the association and Canadian Lawyer; provincial policy work that City Council does not decide
President and chief executive officer of the Association for Mineral Exploration
The association announced the appointment on August 18, 2023, effective September 18, 2023, and Canadian Lawyer reported it on September 5, 2023. On February 6, 2025 the association announced his departure. That release lists as his most notable achievements keeping members' and industry's views in talks with government on the Mineral Claims Consultation Framework, guiding its dealings with government on proposed changes to the BC Mineral Tenure Act, a member outreach campaign called the What We Heard Report, and support for reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
Scope, limits and sources
The descriptions of his work are the association's own and were not checked against other records. The work concerns provincial mining policy, which Vancouver City Council does not decide, so it is tagged to no scored issue. The province's public lobbyist registry page for the association shows him as its senior officer in the registration version that ran from April 2, 2024 to February 6, 2025, and marks the registration Inactive.
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
Statement
Women Transforming Cities pledge
The organization's results table, published September 16, 2026, marks Jutla as committing to all six of its Our City Hall asks. The table is an image and carries no statement in his own words.
Vote Palestine Vancouver, a campaign group, lists Jutla as having declined its four-point platform. In the group's words the points are: condemn the genocide, sign the Apartheid-Free Communities Pledge, cut ties with Israeli institutions including reviewing contracts, and recognize the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association framework of anti-Palestinian racism. The group says its volunteers recorded the positions and that the list is current as of October 1. voche.me found no statement by Jutla himself on these points.
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Reporting
Canadian Lawyer
Natural resources lawyer Keerit Jutla joins Association for Mineral Exploration as president and CEO
Reports the association's announcement of his appointment, effective September 18, 2023, and his earlier work at two BC government bodies and in Aboriginal and regulatory law. The article draws on the association's announcement.
The Conversation: AME CEO Keerit Jutla talks about the underlying potential of B.C.'s mining industry
An interview by Nathan Caddell about what the association does and how provincial mining policy affects its members. It holds no statement about City of Vancouver policy.
Reports that he joined the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association as provincial director, based in Langford. The article reports the same facts as the association's own post of March 10, 2025.
The advocate: Keerit Jutla, one of our 2024 names to know
A profile by Ashley Fish-Robertson in the magazine of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, written while he led the Association for Mineral Exploration. Its opening says he joined the association in September 2023 after work as a natural resources lawyer and roles at the BC Environmental Assessment Office and the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. The rest of the article needs a free account and was not read.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No independent news reporting about Jutla's council campaign and no interview on municipal policy were found by voche.me on October 3, 2026. The campaign page lists no specific council commitments, so the record of what Jutla would do is thin. The reason for leaving the Association for Mineral Exploration in 2025 was not found. The association's release of February 6, 2025 thanks him and gives no reason. Whether he still works for the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association was not found. The Intelligent Miner's interview of January 19, 2026 introduces him as a strategic advisor in mining, natural resources and Indigenous partnerships; the rest of that interview needs a subscription. The BC company registry lists Invicta Metals Corp. but does not name its directors, and the company website returned an error page (HTTP 404) on October 3, 2026. His calls to the bars of Alberta, Ontario and Yukon were not checked. HUB Cycling's published survey sheet holds no answers from him. His LinkedIn, Threads and TikTok pages could not be read by automated requests. No public forum or debate appearance was confirmed for the period from October 3 to October 17, 2026.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 2 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Reviewed again on October 3, 2026. The candidate page, the party platform pages and the VoteMate profile were read again and had not changed. Records from the Law Society of British Columbia and the BC company registry were added, with two lists published by outside groups: the Women Transforming Cities pledge results and the Vote Palestine Vancouver candidate list.
Checks still to do: Confirm professional and company roles through their public records; distinguish partnership claims from independently documented agreements.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Announced March 2025
Provincial director, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association
The association's own post of March 10, 2025 says Jutla joined as provincial director, based in Langford, to expand membership and represent the construction and resource industries. voche.me found no page that says whether he still holds the role.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Association for Mineral Exploration
The association announced the appointment on August 18, 2023, effective September 18, 2023. The association's staff page now lists the tenure as 2023 to 2025. The association represents the mineral exploration industry in British Columbia. The association announced his departure on February 6, 2025.
Senior roles, BC Environmental Assessment Office and Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation
The association's 2023 announcement says this work covered permitting for mineral exploration and implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. CIM Magazine's profile of June 3, 2024 also names the two government offices.
The campaign page names Woodward and Company and JFK Law as the firms. The association's 2023 announcement describes ten years in the natural resource sector acting for both mining companies and First Nations, across oil and gas, oil sands, pipelines, LNG and mining, including impact benefit agreements and First Nations equity investments. The Law Society of British Columbia lists him as practising, with a British Columbia call date of May 8, 2018, as of October 3, 2026. voche.me did not check his calls to the bars of Alberta, Ontario and Yukon.
Chief Executive Officer and founder, Invicta Metals Corp.
The campaign page describes the company as built around consent-first partnerships with First Nations. The BC company registry, read through the province's OrgBook BC service, lists an active company named Invicta Metals Corp., number BC1561731, registered on October 31, 2025, under its current name since November 24, 2025. The registry entry does not name the company's directors. The Law Society of British Columbia gives Invicta Metals Corporation as Jutla's main place of practice. His title at the company comes from the campaign.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
How would you disclose outside business interests and manage conflicts in council decisions?
No response has been submitted.
Which of your proposals can council enact directly, and which require provincial, federal or regional agreement?
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 Keerit Jutla?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Keerit Jutla's own campaign.
What is Keerit Jutla's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Keerit Jutla is number 106 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
What party did Keerit Jutla run with?
Keerit Jutla ran for City Council with Vote Vancouver.
Does Keerit Jutla currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Keerit Jutla.
How many sources does this Keerit Jutla profile cite?
This profile lists 3 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Keerit Jutla filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Keerit Jutla. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Keerit Jutla's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Keerit Jutla 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 was the election Keerit Jutla ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the City Council race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
Record reviewed and extended
Added the Law Society of British Columbia record and the BC company registry record for Invicta Metals Corp., the Women Transforming Cities pledge results, the Vote Palestine Vancouver candidate list, a 2024 CIM Magazine profile, the Vote Vancouver economy platform as a party position, and the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition's online town hall of October 13 as an unconfirmed event. The period of his provincial government work read "About two years before 2023". The sources say two years before he joined the association in September 2023, and the period now says that.
Housing platform entry reworded
The entry said the party would keep public land in public ownership. The party's housing page says community ownership and is written in Rebecca Bligh's name. The entry now follows the page.
Growth and partnership entries corrected
The growth entry also said Jutla applies a consent-based approach to city governance. The candidate page does not say that, so the words were removed, and the entry moved from Housing to Growth because the page names no housing measure. The entry titled "Consent-based partnerships in city deals" was retitled because the page does not mention city deals.
