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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.

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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.

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