Being ‘against the national interest of Canada’ is the charge against the billionaire.
A petition to remove Elon Musk’s citizenship has been signed by more than 150,000 Canadians.
The legislative petition, which was filed on February 20, charges Musk with being “engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada.”
It seems that the software magnate is strongly aligned with Donald Trump, who has made contentious claims about annexing Canada and making it the 51st state in the union.
Charlie Angus, a New Democrat MP and Musk critic, sponsored the petition, which was started by Qualia Reed of British Columbia in the House of Commons in Canada.
The CEO of Tesla was born in South Africa, but his mother, who is from Regina, Saskatchewan, has granted him Canadian citizenship.
Trump’s administration has been collaborating closely with the owner of X (previously Twitter) to reduce federal government spending in the United States.
Trump has openly boasted of having the US conquer Canada and threatened to put high taxes on Canadian goods on several occasions.
According to the petition, the SpaceX creator is “a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty” because of his support for Trump.
It requests that Musk’s Canadian passport be revoked and his citizenship revoked immediately by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom Trump has frequently derided as the “governor.”
According to the Canadian Press, petitions such as these require more than 500 signatures in order to be officially validated and delivered to the House of Commons in Canada for a formal government response. As of late Sunday, February 23, this has not been an issue; Reed’s petition has gathered roughly 157,000 signatures and is still growing.
Unless a general election is called before then, the House of Commons of Canada is scheduled to reconvene on March 24.
The deadline for signing the petition is June 20.
As the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has led to widespread layoffs across US federal agencies, the richest man in the world has been instrumental in Trump’s aggressive cost-cutting initiatives.
The Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defence, Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Parks Service are among the hundreds of thousands of governmental officials in the United States government who have been impacted.
Many Americans oppose the drastic cuts, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll of almost 1,600 respondents, which revealed that Musk and his alleged DOGE business are significantly less popular with the public than they claim to be.
Musk appears to be unconcerned by the petition and is still using his X platform to forward his political agenda.
Musk retweeted a post on Sunday that said, “Of course we support Doge! People who oppose it are not American.