Summary

A Canadian parliamentary petition to revoke Elon Musk’s citizenship has gathered over 150,000 signatures.

Launched by author Qualia Reed and sponsored by MP Charlie Angus, the petition accuses Musk of undermining Canada’s sovereignty due to his ties to Trump, who has repeatedly suggested annexing Canada.

Musk is a Canadian citizen through his mother. The petition will be presented to the House of Commons, which resumes on March 24.

  • Krik
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    3316 hours ago

    While I don’t think it’s possible to revoke his citizenship it might be possible to try him for treason against ‘his’ country.

    • @[email protected]
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      There is precedent to revoke his citizenship.

      In the 1980s, there was another extremist who used his international media platform to spew hate and disinformation. His name was Ernst Zundel. He continually laughed at Canada’s laws against hate speech. He was ultimately jailed and then deported from our country.

      (FYI Charlie Angus is a Member of Parliament in Canada.)

      https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/musk-doesnt-deserve-canadian-citizenship

      Edit to fix word

      • @[email protected]
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        814 hours ago

        (FYI Charlie Angus is a Minister of Parliament in Canada.)

        Member of Parliament. He’s a part of the NDP opposition party. Ministers are heads of ministries, which are like departments, and ministers have traditionally been from the governing party.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    2218 hours ago

    If I were the Queen of America, I would have Elon tried for treason, I’d also have ICE remove everyone from their detention centers but not close it completely, they’d now have the job of Violating the fuck out of Elon’s 8th Amendment rights.

  • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴
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    23 hours ago

    In like the 1940s Elon Musk’s grandfather was a chiropractor in Regina, Saskatchewan and was arrested by the RCMP for being a central figure in an organization that was trying to overthrow the government and install a technocracy. I’m not kidding.

    After that is when he fucked off to South Africa to partake in the Apartheid.

    • Gloomy
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      1031 day ago

      I realy want to belive this to be true, but I have to ask for a source on this one.

        • NeatoBuilds
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          622 hours ago

          Is there a way to get a source for behind the bastards without ads? Like some podcasts let you pay a subscription and you get access to an ad free version

            • NeatoBuilds
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              220 hours ago

              Oh nice so that gets you like a link to be able to use your own podcast downloader?

              • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴
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                Yeah it’s called an RSS feed. Every podcast has an RSS link, and that’s how your podcast app connects and gets all the episode information and the stream. Some apps may not have the podcast you’re looking for in the search function (or maybe there’s more than one, like an ad free stream), and you can manually add whatever podcast if you have the link.

                Interestingly, YouTube channels and subreddits are also RSS feeds. There are apps that allow you to compile the links together, so all of your podcasts, YouTube subscriptions, subreddits, and many more things that you follow on the internet, could all be combined into one app/page, free of ads and other distractions and annoyances on the originating sites. I use the program FreshRSS for this exact purpose, and it’s wonderful having everything I want to see combined on my home page.

          • @[email protected]
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            -217 hours ago

            Here’s a summary of our findings: We located reporting from as far back as 2009 and 2014 that said when Elon Musk (“Elon” hereafter) was a child in South Africa in the 1980s, his father (“Errol” hereafter) at some point owned “a stake in an emerald mine” near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia, not South Africa. Beyond that, we were unable to find any evidence that showed money generated from his father’s involvement in the mine helped Elon build his wealth in North America.

            I once owned a share of Microsoft, therefore I owe any success to that.

        • @[email protected]
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          1621 hours ago

          Supervisor: Hey, um, I think you forgot to include sources in your thesis?

          Grad student: You can also look up a source. It’s real easy these days, with the little supercomputers in all our pockets.

          • @[email protected]
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            1222 hours ago

            That’s how I feel every time someone makes that stupid remark… if I didn’t want to interact with people, I wouldn’t be online, duh. I especially love being able to ask questions in real-time and verify the answers when it’s important to me.

            • @[email protected]
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              1021 hours ago

              For me, it’s not even about the interaction. “Do your own research” is conspiracy ideologists language for “trust me brah” and we should be better than that. Whatever they claim may simply not be true and “look it up yourself” is just a means to waste everybody’s time because there isn’t anything to look up. Not to mention, whoever made the claim should already have at least an idea where they got the claim so why send everybody on a wild goose chase when they can simply link to it?

              • @[email protected]
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                321 hours ago

                I almost always include links, but not always when it’s something I’ve already linked to dozens of times. In that case, I figure if people are interested enough, they’ll want to do their own research… and if they’re not, then I’m not gonna continue wasting my time just because someone wants to argue again.

            • @[email protected]
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              320 hours ago

              Beep boop beep boop

              I mean…

              What YOU said sounds like something a robot would say… 🤔

            • @[email protected]
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              1022 hours ago

              Lol. If you consider what they said an insult, what you said is certainly one by your own standards. Maybe don’t be shitty to people for no reason if you’re concerned about such things.

            • Midnight Wolf
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              116 hours ago

              Condescending, then gets upset for being called out for it; then doubles down, instead of recognizing the problem is, in fact, being condescending. Which, to recap, you began and then continued.

              Bravo, bravo slow clap. I almost feel like I should expect a shrill cry to speak to the manager or something.

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    I would be surprised if this sort of thing was possible and I’m pretty sure it’s not and im pretty sure it’s a good thing that it’s not

      • @[email protected]
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        1019 hours ago

        She didn’t have the passport at that time, while musk has probably a bunch of them stashed away. What the British did was directly going against the UDHR, but musk can suck it.

      • @[email protected]
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        621 hours ago

        Probably did her a favour not letting her back.

        Not seen such a prominent figure of hate since Cat Bin Lady.

        • @[email protected]
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          721 hours ago

          Dunno, stateless in a refugee camp currently as Bangladesh won’t let her in either. Think I’d opt for keeping a low profile in Britain instead, change name, get the hair dye and sunglasses on and move to a shitty wee town somewhere

          • @[email protected]
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            Joins ISIS

            Nobody will ever let her into their country again

            The jokes write themselves sometimes.

    • @[email protected]
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      921 hours ago

      …Especially since the alternative could be just charging him with treason or something.

      • @[email protected]
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        421 hours ago

        The gov’t doesn’t have to charge him with treason to revoke his citizenship. They only have to prove that he committed it.

    • @[email protected]
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      I would be surprised if this sort of thing was possible and I’m pretty sure it’s not and im pretty sure it’s a good thing that it’s not

      It isn’t in the US, but the US is not all countries.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroyim_v._Rusk

      Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily.[1][2][3] The U.S. government had attempted to revoke the citizenship of Beys Afroyim, a man born in Poland, because he had cast a vote in an Israeli election after becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. The Supreme Court decided that Afroyim’s right to retain his citizenship was guaranteed by the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In so doing, the Court struck down a federal law mandating loss of U.S. citizenship for voting in a foreign election—thereby overruling one of its own precedents, Perez v. Brownell (1958), in which it had upheld loss of citizenship under similar circumstances less than a decade earlier.

      EDIT: I haven’t previously read up on citizenship law for Canada, so I don’t know if this is missing relevant Canadian citizenship law, but a quick search suggests that Canadian law doesn’t permit for executive removal of citizenship either:

      https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-29/page-3.html

      Loss of Citizenship

      Marginal note:No loss except as provided

      7 A person who is a citizen shall not cease to be a citizen except in accordance with this Part or regulations made under paragraph 27(1)(j.1).

      None of that section nor paragraph 27 looks like it provides for involuntary removal of Canadian citizenship.

      That being said, there is a question of whether this is ordinary federal law or constitutional law. I don’t know how one determines that.

      In the US, Afroyim v. Rusk found that the US Constitution disallowed removal of citizenship. There is a high bar to modify the US Constitution – a majority of both legislatures in a three-quarters supermajority of state legislatures need to approve of a constitutional amendment. This is considerably higher than the bar to pass ordinary federal law, which is just a simple majority in the House, Senate, and the President, or a two-thirds supermajority in both the House and Senate.

      Canada’s constitutional situation is complicated. Canada started out following the UK model, where Parliament can change any law it wants to as easily as any other – there is no “higher law” like a constitution. At the time that Canada got split off from the UK at a constitutional level, some of Canadian law was decided to be part of the constitution and some not…but it was never defined exactly what law was and what wasn’t, so I understand that courts have been working that out ever since. The constitution isn’t simply a separate document, as in the US.

      Also, different parts of Canada’s constitution have different bars for amendment.

      So I don’t know for sure how strong this constraint is; it might be that the Canadian legislature could remove this bar as readily as they would a typical law.

      EDIT2: Someone else pointed out the Shamima Begum case below, where the British executive removed someone’s citizenship. I followed that and commented on it when it happened, and it is definitely possible for the executive to strip a citizen’s citizenship in the UK; the law explicitly provides for it.

      I was fairly concerned about this at the time it was in the news, because most other legal rights depend on citizenship. If you can remove someone’s citizenship, you can remove most of their other legal rights and protections.

    • @[email protected]
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      320 hours ago

      “Oh no, how do we make sure Diet Hitler stays a Canadian citizen?”

      Wtf is your thought process, my dude?

      • @[email protected]
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        619 hours ago

        More like there’s systems in place to prevent countries from creating a stateless person, who would have no rights anywhere.

        Just because it sounds nice to happen to people you don’t agree with, it’s still something that shouldn’t be allowed to happen.

  • @[email protected]
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    1819 hours ago

    Add mine to the total. Stop buying Teslas Don’t use his internet service that pollutes the night sky Just a big thumbs down to this pseudo nazi.

    • @[email protected]
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      617 hours ago

      Talking about musk is how he really gets his power.

      I think the only solution is to excommunicate him and deny any suggestion made by people who support him.

      If it involves musk, it should be a no-go from the get-go.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 hours ago

      While reducing his sources of income will hurt him a little bit, unfortunately Starlink is very appealing to militaries and emergency services. Being able to access the internet is great for morale in the navy, and mission critical for plenty of emergency services. This is particularly true in Australia where we have vast unpopulated areas with very patchy phone coverage, let alone bandwidth for data services. I know some services are installing starlink as emergency backups for stations and in forward command vehicles. They’ll be paying the big bucks for Starlink.

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    At just over 179k signatures now.

    Now at over 183k.

    187k+

    190k+ (seems to be speeding up)

    Just over 200k now!

    Almost 208k. About 5000 per hr signing.

  • @[email protected]
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    1520 hours ago

    I am hoping that he is marked as treasonous. The sooner that members of Yarvin’s Cabal end up on wanted posters throughout the world, the better.

  • @[email protected]
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    541 day ago

    I forgot he had Canadian citizenship, I wonder if any Republicans have enough of a spine to pressure him into relinquishing it.