{"id":53117,"date":"2025-02-24T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/more-than-150-000-canadians-sign-petition-to-revoke-musk-s-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T19:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:50:29","slug":"more-than-150-000-canadians-sign-petition-to-revoke-musk-s-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/more-than-150-000-canadians-sign-petition-to-revoke-musk-s-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk\u2019s citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petition claims Musk is supporting a foreign government that threatens Canada&#8217;s sovereignty.<br \/>\nThe petition was initiated by British Columbia writer Qualia Reed and was sponsored by New Democratic Party member Charlie Angus.<\/p>\n<p>It accuses Musk of acting against Canada&#8217;s national interests by advising Trump, who has repeatedly suggested annexing Canada during his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, born in South Africa, holds Canadian citizenship through his mother, Maye Musk, who is from Regina, Saskatchewan. Despite leading U.S. companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter), Musk faces criticism for supporting Trump\u2019s push to reduce the U.S. federal government\u2019s size.<\/p>\n<p>Under Canadian parliamentary rules, petitions require at least 500 signatures to be considered. Reed\u2019s petition has far exceeded this, collecting approximately 167,000 signatures by Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The petition asks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke Musk\u2019s citizenship immediately. The House of Commons will resume on March 24 unless a general election is called beforehand. The petition remains open for signatures until June 20.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s involvement in the Trump administration has led to significant budget cuts across U.S. federal agencies, affecting thousands of public employees.<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticism, Musk recently appeared at a conservative event in Maryland, where he playfully waved a large chainsaw. On social media, he continues to express support for Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82372 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic_1-212.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk is under fire from Canadians who want his citizenship revoked.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150,000 Canadians have signed a petition urging the government to revoke Elon Musk&#8217;s Canadian citizenship due to his ties with U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000082371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000082371,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-337.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53117"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53117"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}