Elon Musk says Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan 'should separate' from Canada
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested that Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan would be better off if they left Canada.
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Musk made the remarks on his X social media platform while commenting on a post from Polymarket, an online prediction market platform, that said Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, leader of the sovereigntist Parti Quebecois, said the dream of Quebec independence “will be realized one day.”
“Good. Quebec should separate,” Musk replied.
In a post shortly thereafter, Musk posted: “Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate too.”
Musk’s Canadian connection, contention
Though born in Pretoria, South Africa, the billionaire and head of SpaceX holds Canadian citizenship. His mother Maye was born in Regina and Musk even moved to Canada in 1989 at age 17, working on a family farm in Saskatchewan and a lumber mill in Vancouver. Musk later moved to Ontario and studied at Queen’s University in Kingston.
Last year, an online petition asking the government to strip Musk of Canadian citizenship became one of the most popular in the history of the House of Commons. The petition accused Musk, then head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, of interfering in Canadian democracy.
“Elon Musk has engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada,” said the petition sponsored by former New Democrat MP Charlie Angus. “He has used his wealth and power to influence our elections; he has now become a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty; and the attempts of Elon Musk to attack Canadian sovereignty must be addressed.”
Musk has targeted Canada on social media before. He once said in a now-deleted 2024 post that “Canada is not a real country.”
When U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to make Canada a “51st state” in early 2025, former prime minister Justin Trudeau responded, “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.” Musk then replied to Trudeau , “Girl, you’re not the governor of Canada anymore, so doesn’t matter what you say.”
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Quebec separatists have been talking to U.S.: Leaked text
The Parti Quebecois has apparently been rubbing elbows with the U.S. State Department, according to a leaked text from a consul official obtained by Postmedia’s Montreal Gazette . Plamodon had a meeting scheduled in early March that was eventually cancelled.
“Just to confirm, PSPP (Paul St-Pierre Plamondon) did not/not go to Washington this week. No word on our part if/when it may be rescheduled,” Robert Sanders, then U.S. consul general in Montreal, texted a Quebec public official on March 3.
St-Pierre Plamondon has denied the PQ had scheduled a March meeting with the U.S. State Department. “It’s absolutely false to claim that there was an attempt to schedule a meeting or that there was a timetable in March or any specific exchanges beyond that intention, which was public,” he told reporters.
But the source who provided the Gazette with the correspondence allowed them to publish one of the texts after St-Pierre Plamondon’s denial.
“The Parti Québécois considered and publicly announced the possibility of a trip to the United States, but the trip ultimately did not take place,” PQ spokesperson Emmanuel Renaud said in a statement to the Gazette. “The possibility of the trip was mentioned to the consul’s team, but no steps were taken — nor was any contact made with the U.S. administration — to bring the project to fruition. There was no attempt to schedule a meeting nor was there any contact with the U.S. administration to that end.”
— With files from the Montreal Gazette.