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Rightly or wrongly, it's legally as much his country as it is yours (if you're a Canadian citizen) or mine.

He may technically hold Canadian citizenship, but it's not his country in all the ways that count. He doesn't spend any time here. He doesn't care to. Let's not be pedants. A Tim Horton's TFW who is struggling to learn English/French and cope with winter may not have citizenship, but can be far more Canadian than Musk will ever be.

I would rather not open up the discussion of two-tiered citizenship again, even if it protects people whose opinions I find very distasteful or harmful. We had that debate in 2015 for people accused of things arguably worse than this.

Again, I'm not talking about legal status. What is the spirit in which Musk is doing this. Do you actually believe he has honest concern for the people of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec? That he only wants what's best for us?

He's parroting Trump (and reinforcing him). He's seeking attention from the MAGA crowd, and doing anything to punish and break Canada is what's currently in with them. This is more aimed at boosting Trump in the mid-terms than it is at helping Canada.

Not in my country.

Some of us in the world find this "legal corruption" hard to fathom: https://www.abc.net.au/news/1072377822

I may be able to comment if your link worked. But I assume it's a reference to Section 44 of the Australian Constitution?

I agree with that policy. Should I ever run for office, I would actively renounce my other citizenship(s). It wouldn't apply to Musk though, because his escapades are not as an elected official.

Sorry, a copy and paste error:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/107237782

But no, nothing to do with the constitution. The link is to a commentary from a recent Australian ambassador to the United States. He was also our Treasurer, from the conservative side.

The headline says: "US corruption allowed to flourish in Washington during Trump's second term", but thats click bait for the Australian's who dislike Trump (most of us). Hockey's concerns go well beyond the current adminstration:

> "There's just too much of a blurred line between the financial interests of various administrators, including the Congress and the private sector."

It's wrongly, and he subverted representation for the vast majority of people who don't think like him by buying influence, not always in legal ways.

Promoting neofascists in Germany is something he's probably not in legal trouble for only because of his money and influence.

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