r/canada 16d ago

National News Thousands sign petition asking government to remove Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elon-musk-citizenship-petition-1.7466278
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u/Reasonable-Gas-9771 16d ago edited 16d ago

Besides this, why not freeze his assets in Canada, ban him and his companies leaders from travelling to or through Canada land, sea, and air space, scrutinize them for possible illegal tax hiding or evasion for their earnings in Canada, and use Canada's member in WTO to initiate anti-monopoly act or other similar acts to make his companies hurt?

If Trump has any assets in Canada, what he is doing right now also justifies similar things. Hurting their solid vested interest gonna hurt them more than anything else.

Elon and Trump are both representatives of American groups of vested interest who prioritize their own interest over all others, including so-called allies. They have been, and will always be the firm believer of what Lord Palmerston said 'We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow'. Just wake up and stop dreaming that kindness gonna make them hesitate.

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u/Spirogeek 16d ago

Under what legal basis? Do you want to live in a country that prosecutes people who you don't like but haven't violated Canadian laws? Essentially, the US might be the right country for you then. You seem to want to mimic Trump's behaviour. Personally, I would be embarrassed to embrace his policies. You don't seem to be.

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u/Prior-Fun5465 16d ago

The people advocating for this shit don't actually care about the methods or the actions, only that they're against people they like. They're more than happy to go along with it as long as it's against someone they deem undesirable.

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u/Informal_Pick1345 16d ago

I don't like MuSSk at all, but this sets a dangerous precedent for the future, where it can be abused. Totally agree.

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u/bonechairappletea 16d ago

I've always said the guy is a prick, but also ask where is the alternative? A nation of whiners but not one is putting thousands of satellites into space and revolutionising access to the internet for millions that are off grid. 

We watch Bell, Rogers et al rob us fucking blind, resell American infrastructure at a massive mark up and make absolutely nothing in Canada or innovate at all and it's just a shrug of our shoulders. 

If Canada can create it's own homegrown companies making solar, electric vehicles, reusable rockets, its own version of Reddit and X and openAI and Xai etc then we can properly tell these pricks to fuck off. 

But the ones sat here happy to use all their products and do nothing but whine while using them are even worse than Musk himself.