Canadians can kiss his Harry Bōlz. That is, if Canada were a real country with real citizens.
That’s the response from the ‘Dogefather’ to a Parliamentary petition calling on the Canadian government to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship.
Thus far, the online entreaty has received more than 250,000 signatures since it was launched by Nanaimo author Qualia Reed (Shadows of Athelon) and backed by Sudbury MP Charlie Angus on Feb. 20. It will stay open until June 20.
The petition argues that the South African-born Musk — who has Canadian citizenship through his Regina-born mother, Maye — “has engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada,” including using “his wealth and power to influence our elections” and becoming a member of “a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty.”
To which Musk responded on Twitter (“X”) — which he owns — “Canada is not a real country.” He has since taken the post down as of Tuesday, although it’s not clear if he’s had a change of heart.
Musk moved from South Africa to Canada in 1988 to attend Queen’s University in Ontario before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually also gained US citizenship in 2002.
The world’s richest man has backed Trump's hardline immigration policies but now faces scrutiny over claims he worked illegally in the US on a student visa.
It’s not the first time Musk has trolled his home and native land.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted in January that there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” Musk responded: “Girl, you’re not the governor of Canada anymore, so doesn’t matter what you say.”
Musk has also compared Trudeau to Hitler to express his support for the trucker convoy to Ottawa during the COVID-19 lockdowns. That’s despite the fact he previously mocked people who compared politicians they don’t like to the Führer.
Experts said it is unlikely that the federal government would actually move to revoke Musk’s passport and other privileges of being a Canadian citizen without a major change in immigration law. Unlike the US, sedition isn’t grounds for revoking citizenship in this country.
That point was emphasized when Trudeau reused to revoke the status of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi who was convicted of plotting an ISIS terror attack in the Greater Toronto Area in 2018.
Instead, he was granted refugee status in 2019, became a permanent resident in 2021 and a Canadian citizen in 2024. This was allowed to happen even though Eldidi is alleged to have appeared dismembering a prisoner in an ISIS video published in 2015.
By those standards, Musk’s ‘unpatriotic’ actions pale in comparison.
In any event, under Canadian law, someone's citizenship can only be revoked if it can be proven that they committed fraud or misrepresentation to obtain it.
"Before they could move to do this… there would have to be amendments to the current Citizenship Act," immigration lawyer Gabriel Ramo, former chair of the Canadian Bar Association's immigration section, told the CBC.
"There's no provision that would allow them to pursue revocation of citizenship of a Canadian birth, by virtue of his birth to a Canadian mother."
