An online petition that asks the Canadian government to revoke the citizenship of Elon Musk is on the way to becoming one of the most popular in the history of the House of Commons.
There is only one problem: Canada cannot revoke the citizenship of Musk.
Immigration lawyer Gabriela Ramo says that according to the Canadian law, someone’s citizenship can only be revoked if it can be demonstrated that they committed fraud or misrepresentation to obtain it.
“Before they could move to do this, they would have to introduce legislation, there should be amendments to the current law of citizenship,” said Ramo, former president of the Immigration Section of the Canada Lawyers Association. “There is no disposition that allows them to follow the revocation of the citizenship of a Canadian birth, by virtue of their birth to a Canadian mother.”
Ramo said it is “quite rare” for Canadian citizenship to be revoked.
Rémi Larivière, an immigration media relations officer, refugees and citizenship of Canada, said the government does not take the revocation of citizens lightly.
“The citizenship of a person can revoke whether the person obtained, retained, renounced or resumed his citizenship by false representation or fraud or if he hid the material circumstances knowingly,” Larivière said.
He said the process includes several steps and a decision of a Federal Court judge unless the citizen in question asks the immigration minister to make the decision.
The citizenship of Musk has been at the center of attention in recent days after the author of British Columbia, Qualia Reed, launched the petition last week asking the Canadian government to revoke the citizenship of Musk and her Canadian passport, given the role he is playing in the government of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“Elon Musk has been involved in activities that go against the national interest of Canada,” says the petition sponsored by the new Democratic deputy Charlie Angus. “He has used his wealth and power to influence our elections; he has now become a member of a foreign government that tries to erase Canadian sovereignty; and Elon Musk’s attempts to attack Canadian sovereignty must be addressed.”
The petition has raised more than 263,000 signatures since it was published on February 20. The province with most of the firms, more than 96,000, is Ontario, followed by more than 53,000 British Columbia, more than 43,000 Quebec and more than 25,000 Alberta.
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Those who sign an electronic house of the house must provide their email address, full name, postal code and telephone number. Canadian citizens living outside Canada are eligible to sign requests as well, said Olivier Duhaime, spokesman for the House of Commons. The house staff verifies the information of a signer and if they find it, it is not authentic or permissible, the secretary of requests can reject it.
The record number of signatures for an electronic request from the Chamber of the Commons is 387,487 for a petition that asks for a vote of non -confidence in the liberal government, presented in January 2024 by the conservative deputy Michelle Ferreri.
On Monday, Musk responded to a publication about the petition on its social media platform X that says “Canada is not a real country.” That publication has been eliminated since then.
Musk was born in South Africa, but his mother, Maye Musk, was born in Regina, giving right to Canadian citizenship. When I was a teenager, Musk decided to move to Canada.
“I left South Africa only when I was 17 years old with just one backpack and a book suitc Queens Univ with scholarship and debt, then to UPENN/Wharton and Stanford. “
Musk met her first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, at Queen University.
In February 2024, Musk published in X that he took more than a decade to obtain American citizenship, which is reported that he received in 2002.
Musk and his companies have not answered the questions of CBC News in recent weeks about the state of their Canadian citizenship.
His mother has published in X that he has been obtaining American citizenship for 12 years, but now all his children and grandchildren have American citizenship.
As recently as on July 31, 2023, Musk published a photo of himself with an I Love Canada T -shirt. In April 2023, he published a photo of the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen with the message “I am proudly medium Canadian!”
On January 8, 2024, Musk published “I Do Love Canada”, the same day he published “the next elections” will not pass in response to a publication about Chrystia Freeland.
Musk has also published messages that support the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
In 2024, Musk’s political participation increased, launching his support behind the re -election offer of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and causing donations to be worth an estimated value of $ 288 million to Trump and other Republican candidates.
In return, Trump put Musk in charge of his newly created Government Efficiency Department (Doge), which has changed to the United States government out upwards with massive shots in one department after another.
American federal workers were ordered to justify their work this weekend presenting five bullet points in their achievements last week or the termination of the face. The initiative, headed by Elon Musk and his team from the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), has republican support, democratic opposition and warnings of legal challenges ahead.
When Trump threatened in January to turn Canada into state 51 and Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau the week he would resign.
“Girl, you are no longer the governor of Canada, so it doesn’t matter what you say.”
Angus, who sponsored the request to strip Canadian citizenship musk, admits that the measure is symbolic but has touched many people.
“I didn’t expect him to explode as he did,” said Angus in an interview. “For me it was really instructive because it shows how angry are the Canadians about what is happening in Washington and how angry are people in Elon Musk’s actions. For me, this is a real symbol of this moment.”
Angus has also sponsored an electronic petition by Aldridge Aldridge, which asks the Canadian government to reject Trump’s entry to Canada due to his criminal sentence and his actions in office. That request, began at the same time, currently has more than 23,000 signatures.
Last month, Angus sent letters to the Canadian elections and the elections of the Canadian commissioner, asking them to investigate their concerns that Musk could use their X platform to interfere in the next Canadian elections.
At that time, Canada’s elections said it was a problem for the commissioner’s office. Angus said Monday that he has not yet had news of the Canadian commissioner’s elections.
