More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship | Elon Musk

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More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship | Elon Musk

More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s ********* citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.

British Columbia author Qualia Reed launched the petition in Canada’s House of Commons, where it was sponsored by New Democrat parliamentary member and avowed Musk critic Charlie Angus, as

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first reported over the weekend.

Born in South Africa and helming US companies including electric vehicle-maker Tesla, aerospace company SpaceX and the social media platform

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/X, Musk has ********* citizenship through his mother, who is from Saskatchewan’s capital, *******. He has been crusading to slash the US federal government’s size at the behest of the US president, who has consistently challenged Canada’s sovereignty since returning to the White House for a second presidential term on 20 January.

Reed’s

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– filed on 20 February – accuses Musk of having “engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada” by acting as an adviser to Trump. Trump has invited the scorn of Canada’s 40 million residents by making threats about imposing steep tariffs on ********* products and openly boasting about having the US annex the country, including shortly before its national hockey team defeated a selection of American opponents in a politically charged 20 February tournament final.

The petition asserts that Musk’s alignment with Trump makes him “a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase ********* sovereignty”. It asks ********* prime minister Justin Trudeau to take away Musk’s ********* passport and revoke his citizenship with immediate effect.

Trump has often mocked Trudeau as “governor”, the title given to US states’ chief executives. And Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he bought in 2022 for $44bn to relish Trudeau’s announcement in January that he would resign as the head of Canada’s Liberal party after it selected a new leader, with the tech billionaire praising clips of the prominent ********* Conservative party chief Pierre Poilievre.

As the ********* Press noted, petitions like Reed’s require 500 or more signatures for them to gain the certification necessary to be presented to Canada’s House of Commons and potentially garner a formal government response. Reed’s petition evidently had no trouble clearing that threshold, having collected about 157,000 signatures as of late Sunday, with no indication that the number would soon stop rising.

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Canada’s House of Commons is scheduled to resume its work on 24 March, though the country could call for a general election before parliamentary members return. The signing ******* for Reed’s petition was set to expire on 20 June.

Musk’s directive to ostensibly cut federal spending – after Trump lost re-election in 2020 to Joe Biden but then secured it in November at the expense of Kamala Harris – has affected hundreds of thousands of US government civil servants. The cuts include thousands at the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service and the National Parks Service, among others.

An Economist/YouGov poll of nearly 1,600 respondents recently

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Musk and his so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) are far less popular with the public that they claim to be serving than many of the areas they are targeting.

Nonetheless, on Friday at a gathering of conservatives in Maryland, Musk made light of his involvement in the Trump administration by giddily waving a giant chainsaw in the air.

And on Sunday, Musk boosted an X post reading: “Of course we support Doge! Those who don’t support it are unAmerican.”

This article was amended on 24 Feburary 2025. The petition closes on 20 June, not 20 January as stated in an earlier version.

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