City spends $33,500 to rename street after indigenous tribe, lawmaker claims

A Canadian city allegedly spent more than $33,000 in taxpayer money to rename a street after an indigenous tribe — a move one lawmaker slammed as bowing to “woke” voices.

MLA Dallas Brodie claimed the City of Vancouver spent $33,500 over the last three years to rename Trutch Street — which was named after British Columbia’s first governor general, Joseph Trutch — to  šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street.

The new name translates to Musqueamview, referencing the Musqueam people who had their land taken by Trutch.

“Residents had no say and nobody except woke, white consultants [who] can read the new name, but who cares,” she wrote on X with an alleged copy of the project costs.

“That’s the price of progress!,” she added about the high cost.

The city agreed to remove Trutch’s name from their street in July 2021 following a request from the Musqueam Nation, one of the tribes decimated during the first governor’s rule in the late 1800s.

The renaming was completed in June 2025, with Brodie releasing the documents detailing the purported cost of the work earlier this month.

The documents showed that the city allegedly budgeted $10,000 on reimbursement for expenses completed, $6,000 on meetings, $7,500 on collaborative work, and another $10,000 on the renaming event in the summer.

“Renaming Trutch Street is an important act of reconciliation that acknowledges our painful past and moves us toward a more inclusive future,” the city said in a statement at the time.

Along with releasing the alleged costs of the street renaming, Brodie also published emails from the city demanding she delete the records and accusing her of “privacy breach” and potentially putting the people of the Musqueam at harm.

“I told them to pound sand,” she wrote on X. “If you pay the taxes, you should know where they go.”

City officials did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Brodie has been previously accused of being insensitive to the indigenous people of British Columbia, with the BC Conservative Party booting her from its caucus in March after she “mocked” and “belittled” the survivors of abuse and sexual assault at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site.