June 3 2026
Coquitlam community advocate Phillip Buchan is a 13-year resident of Coquitlam who lives with his spouse Miho Kitamoto. Phillip wants to bring a new perspective to council, which will focus on getting more truly affordable housing built and on solving the unhoused crisis by using a compassionate approach. He will advocate to bring in Vision Zero for traffic safety, and
push for a stronger Urban Forest Management strategy which will enable the City to move faster to meet its climate goals and targets.
Phillip worked at the Tri-Cities winter homeless shelter as a driver for the last two years, and he presently works at a Tri-Cities Youth Outreach organization which provides support & services to youth at risk.
Phillip was President of the Burke Mountain Naturalists from 2024-2025, Vice President of the
Riverview Horticultural Centre Society in 2024 and a founding member of Tri-Cities Food Not
Bombs group which provides lunches to unhoused people every second Sunday on Gordon
Avenue. Phillip has been a member of the Coquitlam Legion since 2015 and volunteers to collect donations for veterans every November.
"I believe my extensive volunteer work on behalf of the unhoused and youth at risk, as well as my advocacy for stronger environmental protections, would give me a unique and needed voice on Coquitlam Council with which to promote solutions for these important community issues."
Phillip will not accept any donations from developers or their family members to keep him free
of any potential influence when development decisions are being made by Coquitlam council.
Phillip can be reached at electphllipbuchan@gmail.com ,
by phone at 604 329-5537 and his
website address is www.philbuchan.ca
We acknowledge that the Phillip Buchan campaign lives works and plays on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), and Stó:lō (Sto:lo) Peoples.
We thank these nations who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.