Vancouver-Quilchena

Callista Ryan is the BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena. A communications professional and youth advocate, she sits on the BC Council for Families board and has co-chaired BC Young New Democrats. Raised in Squamish and educated at Western University as a Loran Scholar, she also ran for the NDP in the riding in 2024.

Carson Binda is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena. The Western Standard reported that the party named him on September 29, 2026 to run against OneBC leader and incumbent Dallas Brodie, who won the seat for the Conservatives in 2024 before being removed from that caucus in 2025. The same report described Binda as the former British Columbia director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, where he argued for lower taxes, accountable government, and responsible public spending, and said he has worked on municipal, provincial, and federal campaigns and served as a logistics officer in the army reserve.

Dallas Brodie is the OneBC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena and the party’s interim leader. She is the sitting MLA for the riding, first elected on October 19, 2024, as a Conservative, with 11,464 votes (51.6 percent), succeeding Kevin Falcon. She placed fourth in the April 30, 2022 Vancouver-Quilchena by-election as the Conservative candidate, with 698 votes (6.6 percent). Born in Vancouver on February 7, 1962, she holds a B.A. in political science from Princeton University, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and a broadcasting-journalism certificate from BCIT, and studied for a time at the University of Paris. She has worked as a criminal defence lawyer on Legal Aid youth cases, as a Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator for about a decade until 2017, and in broadcasting as a CBC producer in Toronto and Ottawa, at CKNW in Vancouver, and as a weekly host on UBC’s CITR-FM. She was the Conservative attorney general critic from November 20, 2024, until March 7, 2025, when leader John Rustad expelled her from caucus. Rustad said she had used her platform as an MLA to mock testimony from victims alleging abuse, including child sexual abuse, after posts and remarks about residential schools that Indigenous organizations condemned as denialism. On June 9, 2025, she and fellow independent MLA Tara Armstrong launched OneBC, with Brodie as interim leader. The party board removed her as leader on December 13, 2025; she was reinstated on December 21 after that board, including Armstrong, resigned. OneBC’s site still lists her as interim leader and as its Vancouver-Quilchena candidate. A recall petition against her, approved in May 2026, failed in July 2026 with 3,663 signatures, short of the 15,232 required. She lives in the riding and has two children.

Douglas Courtemanche is the BC Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a plastic surgeon and clinical professor in UBC’s Division of Plastic Surgery, and an investigator and director of the Vascular Anomalies Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital, with research in cleft and craniofacial care, surgical safety, and planetary health. He has also written and spoken on climate and health through outlets such as Healthy Debate and Doctors for Planetary Health–West Coast. No earlier provincial candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.

Petra Kuret is the CentreBC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena, where she has lived for more than 40 years. She began her career as a Parliamentary Page in the House of Commons and worked for MPs in Canada and the UK. She spent about 25 years at Accenture, becoming Managing Partner for British Columbia in 2012, later served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Transformation at Vancity, and in 2021 joined a Silicon Valley AI B Corp (SkyHive) focused on workforce upskilling. Recognized among Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women (2016 and 2017), she received the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025 for community service. She has chaired MOSAIC’s board and served on boards including BC Women’s Hospital, and has worked to secure provincial funding for a new long-term care home. She holds an Honours B.A. in Political Science from Carleton and ICD.D/GCB.D governance designations. In 2025 she sought the federal Liberal nomination in Vancouver Quadra.