At an event held by Rebel News in Calgary last weekend, Premier Danielle Smith spoke of an initiative called Tracking Receipts and Allocations for Canadian Expenditures (TRACE), which was inspired partially by Elon Musk’s DOGE south of the border. Smith explicitly noted that the tracker will scrutinize taxpayer money flowing to groups whose work or advocacy directly opposes provincial interests or political priorities. This includes heavily auditing environmental organizations opposing oil sands expansion and advocacy groups supporting supervised drug consumption services.
MORGAN: Smith’s suggestion to cut tax funding for advocacy groups is a positive step
