The City of Vancouver has been exposed for spending more than $30,000 of taxpayer cash to rename a street.
MLA Dallas Brodie slammed the city in a recent X post, leaking documents that show Vancouver paid $33,500 to rename Trutch Street.
The new name is šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (sh-MUS-kwee-uhm-AWH-sum), which translates to Musqueamview Street in English.
Trutch Street was named after British Columbia’s first governor general Joseph Trutch, a British colonizer who took swathes of land from First Nations people.
The previous city council voted on the rebrand in July 2021 after a request from the Musqueam Nation. It was followed through in June 2025.
Mayor Ken Sim green-lighted the project to ‘address a historic injustice and take another step forward on the path towards reconciliation.’
‘We recognize and honor the Musqueam people and their longstanding connection to this land,’ he wrote on X.
Brodie shamed the city for wasting hard working taxpayer dollars on the name change.
The revealed documents showed the cost breakdown that went into the rename: $10,000 on reimbursement for expenses completed, $6,000 on meetings, $7,500 on collaborative work, and another $10,000 on the event. The various costs amount to a total of $33,500.
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