Parliamentary petition accuses tech billionaire of acting against the national interest of Canada.

Taking away someone’s birthright citizenship is literally what Trump wants to be able to do.

Musk has citizenship by descent, not birthright citizenship. He was born in South Africa.

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Except he wasn’t born in or anywhere near Canada

Musk was born in South Africa. Why is he a Canadian citizen in the US government?

Musk applied for a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother to avoid South Africa’s mandatory military service

Oh he wanted to dodge the draft.

probably the best thing I ever heard about this guy

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Yeah. I understand the sentiment, but considering the conservative attempts (and limited successes) of creating tiered citizenship in Canada already… This a is real Pandora’s box that we’d be opening, which could actually hurt actual Canadians, to send a message to someone who couldn’t care less.

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