Elon Musk Makes It Clear He Hates Canada

It’s no surprise the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks that Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. But it does clear the air to have it right out there, don’t you think?

I speak of course of Elon Musk, although I realize that the title of Most Hated Man on Earth is contested, as is the one about being the richest person on the planet, and that just like heavyweight pugilists, one guy never gets to occupy the top spot for long.

Still, it’s helpful to know that someone as widely despised by normal humans as is Musk thinks ill of Confederation.

Having a guy like Musk telling us via the social media platform previously known as Twitter that he thinks Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec should all separate into their own little too-cold-for-bananas banana republics is almost as persuasive as he and his fellow tech trazillionaires telling us that all those energy- and water-sucking artificial intelligence data centres are gonna be really, really good for us. Really. Some day.

So, it can’t hurt the important cause of keeping our country together for folks to understand that the people most likely to profit from turning Alberta into a dumping ground for AI data centres that they’ll abandon the instant the AI bubble goes pop also think Alberta would be just copacetic as a landlocked petrostatelet.

Musk’s dislike for our dominion is probably rooted in the fact that his dear old grandpappy on his mama’s side, Joshua Haldeman , was arrested by the Canadian government in 1940 for membership in an organization considered subversive to the war effort. The war in question, in case you missed that lecture, was the one against Hitler.

According to Wikipedia, for what that’s worth, Musk’s own daddy claimed in 2024 that the old man “sympathized with Nazi Germany in World War II.” So, it’s possible the Canadian government was on to something, but whatever the reason was, grandson Elon certainly seems to have inherited a huge chip on his shoulder about the existence of Canada.

To be fair, though, once upon a more friendly time he said he loved Canada and called himself “half Canadian” — which, I guess, would nowadays make him half Canadian, half American and all white South African.

Anyway, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe responded to Musk’s advice with a two-character post of his own: “No.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith issued a statement that is easier to pick at: “Our government, our Caucus, and our party support Alberta remaining in Canada.” Well, excluding Red Deer-South United Conservative Party MLA Jason Stephan, that is, and a dozen or so others, probably.

But Smith, as the Toronto Star’s Gillian Steward explained yesterday morning, is finding out that playing both sides of the fence is a losing strategy. Which, one supposes, may be why Musk decided now was a good time to pitch in and try to help. He is, after all, U.S.