Candidate for Vancouver City Council.
Keerit Jutla, ballot number 106 for City Council in Vancouver, Vote Vancouver. Profile focus: Economic development and public decision-making.
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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.
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The campaign page says Jutla believes decisions about the city should be made "in the open, not behind closed doors".
The campaign page says growth "should happen for residents, not to them", and applies a consent-based negotiating approach to city governance.
Vote Vancouver's housing platform commits to keeping public land in public ownership while partnering with community land trusts, speeding up approvals, building permanently affordable middle-income homes with non-profit childcare included, letting faith organizations redevelop their properties, and replacing single-room occupancy buildings.
The page says Jutla believes decisions about the city should be made in the open.
The page says Jutla would bring experience negotiating and building consent-based partnerships to city council.
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No independent news reporting about Jutla's council campaign was found, and no interview on municipal policy was found. 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 established from any page that could be opened, because the Business in Vancouver report on that change returned an error. Invicta Metals Corp. is described only on the campaign page and in Wikipedia, with no corporate registry record opened. No public forum or debate appearance was confirmed for the period from September 22 to October 17, 2026.
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.
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.
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's announcement says this work covered permitting for mineral exploration and implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
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.
Keerit Jutla candidate pageThe campaign page describes the company as built around consent-first partnerships with First Nations. No independent record of the company was opened.
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