The world’s richest man looks to move Canada to the right as the beleaguered prime minister prepares to depart

The decision by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, this week to resign as head of the Liberal party has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by Donald Trump’s “America first” economic nationalism. It has also given Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country’s political turmoil.

Since Trudeau’s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau’s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers.

“Girl, you’re not the governor (sic) of Canada anymore, so doesn’t matter what you say,” Musk tweeted in response in the middle of the night on Tuesday.

  • buttfarts@lemy.lol
    55·
    10 days ago

    This guy is gonna be the whole world’s problem until we collectively shun him into Russia or something.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      10·
      9 days ago

      The problem (well one of them) with billionaires, is that you can’t really “exile” them. They exist outside of national boundaries, and are sort of nations in and of themselves. This is why they don’t bother following the laws of the nation they reside in.

      I’m not sure it would even be possible to do this unless we could literally strip him of all of his wealth. Which I imagine would prove difficult (but I’m all for it).

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    341·
    10 days ago

    The dumbfuck doesn’t even know the difference between prime minister and governor.

    He should just sit this one out.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      20·
      10 days ago

      I think he says that on purpose, to perpetuate the trope Trump started.

      Either way, people in Canada have such a low opinion of him and Trump that I think the more he speaks favourably of PP, the more Canadians are going to turn away from him. Since Elmo can’t support PP with a lot more than speech, I think he’s likely to run his mouth a lot. I hope he does.

      • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
        8·
        9 days ago

        We do have that maple maga crap, and Propaganda Pierre is doing all he can. Let’s hope reason wins out over slogans and lies, remember Propaganda Pierre was housing minister under Harper

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    31·
    9 days ago

    God JT needs to give election Canada teeth before he goes, because right now if musk decides to come in and fuck with the election and prop up a party, there isn’t much that they will do about it.

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      9 days ago

      I think he should cause it’s great for the nation, but why would he (like personally)

      All this time people just kept asking him to leave and now he is leaving… and we get to find out why people hated Trudeau and how those problems will persist after him.

  • chuck@lemmy.ca
    16·
    9 days ago

    Force him to pay his fair share of taxes ( not a tiny amount but a fair amount proportional to what he has extracted from the Canadian economy)

    If he refuses Invalidate all patents this Muppet’s companies previously enjoyed within Canada

    Let competition flood in with copy cat rockets cars twitter and hell pay pal clones

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 days ago

      Also since he’s Canadian then should his right wing pro nazi comments cross the line, charge him for hate speech under Canadian laws

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      91·
      9 days ago

      At this point, simply making Musk pay his fair share in taxes is not enough in my opinion. The damage that he has done to this planet is immeasurable.

  • novacomets@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    347·
    10 days ago

    Musk can legally vote for prime minster, therefore he is allowed to influence Canadian voters as equal as anybody else.

    If you take his tweet at face value literally about “Girl, you ain’t the govenor…”, it proves that you’re not catching on to the nuances and subtleties that he was referrencing. If you want try to spread hate and perversion about Elon, grasp what you speak on.