Canadians will decide the future of Canada, not “large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday, responding to Elon Musk’s comments that three Canadian provinces “should separate” from Canada.
“The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians, and the priorities of Canadians, the priorities of the people of Quebec,” Carney told reporters in Sherbrooke, Que., on Thursday.
Musk, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said on his social media platform X that Quebec should separate, as should Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Any discussion on the future of the provinces should be “free from interference from foreign governments and large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do,” Carney said on Thursday.
Carney recently announced a major $2.3-billion contract with Telesat for low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity for the military.
That service has aspirations to become a direct commercial challenger to Musk’s Starlink, which dominates the global market for low-Earth orbit satellite internet service.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe had a concise response to Musk on social media: “No.”
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On Oct. 19, Albertans go to the polls to decide if the province should stay in Canada or whether there should be a second binding referendum to begin the process of separation.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who states she’s voting to stay in Canada in an upcoming referendum, says she also strongly disagrees with Musk’s opinion.
Speaking in Edmonton on Thursday, Smith argued separatist sentiment in her province has weakened because she and Carney have addressed the “very real issues that were frustrating Albertans.”
“The federal government has changed. Their approach to us has changed and they’re willing to work together on addressing those issues,” she said.
Quebec voters elected a separatist government on Monday by granting the Parti Québécois a minority government.
PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon pledged during the election that his party would not hold a referendum on separation while U.S. President Donald Trump remains in office.
Carney has sought to use his ambitious economic agenda as an olive branch to the province and its new government, vowing Quebec will benefit from cooperative federalism.
–with files from Canadian Press
I am a lifelong Conservative but so glad we have someone like Carney as our PM. The Americans would love to have someone with a brain instead of the White House scumbag they have. Musk is just sucking up to Trump with this crazy stupid thinking. Referendums will prove that Canada is one country and ALL provinces will stick together. There will always be some people who will complain about everything but they are in the vast minority .Sorry Musk but the majority of Canadians are behind ONE Canada.
Whoever wants data centers should get them as close as possible to their home
. They run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and produce continuous sound levels that can disrupt nearby communities
Plus the electricity prices go up
So by all means ***Ben***. I think you should get your wish
West of Hope BC would like to go with Alberta. West of Hope is too much like California…
Musk should box Elbows Up Carney.
Carney is correct. We also need to build data centres. Building them brings investment and helps keep Canadian data under our control, not under the control of the USA. Finally, AI must be regulated but nevertheless our trading partners are using it, so we must as well.
this is funny .musk is right. sure does trigger the liberal idiots .
No, but they can build their data centers wherever they’d like, right?
hummmm Brookfield…….
Carney says big tec can’t tell him what to do but big companies like Brookfield make him slobber all over himself like a big dog.
William you have TDS. Its treatable. Start by turning off CBC.
But carney can sell us out to the EU no problem. Is that what Canadians want!
Maybe Musk can buy Alberta.
Elon and his broke a$$ dickkk can go to hell
The Americans want us to stay out of there political Arena why are they interfering with ours so get the hell out of ours.
You do know that the rat has mental issues!!!
This should give Quebec voters pause on the issue of separation. Not like the Muskrat is thinking about what’s best for the Quebec population. A more vulnerable province on its own would be just great for American exploitation. And end up part of the US Empire which won’t give a fig about preserving the French language. Speak American, period.
Prime Minister Carney you said, Canadians will decide the future of Canada. But you don’t listen to Canadians. Canadians voted for a minority government. You have a majority government that Canadian didn’t vote for. You didn’t listen!
Elon is smarter than carnival carney
Eff off Carney and get to the table. Too many people losing their jobs. Your arrogance is disgusting.
I do not like Elon Musk…..but, Elon holds South African, American, and Canadian citizenships. His Canadian citizenship was passed to him through his mother who was born in Saskatchewan.
I don’t care for Mark Carney….but, while he is now solely a Canadian citizen he held Canadian, Irish, and UK citizenships until 2025. At the time he became Liberal leader and Prime Minister he was in the same boat as Elon.
It seems the Liberal party was okay with giving the reins of government to someone who represented a multinational investment conglomerate (Brookfield), but Mark has a problem with big tech Canadian citizens weighing in.
@Anonyous at 4:29. Trudeau was this popular also for some time. It will pass as Carneys failings stack up.
Carney. Thought talk and nothing more. All bark and no bite. Big baby.
Too many people using the callsign Anonymous….some can spell and put together sentences, the other (Village Idiot) can’t spell or put together sentences.
Musk is a Trump supporter and as such has proven to be an unreliable person. He has absolutely no right to interfere in Canadian government – but that’s Trump tooo. Make up what you want and if you pull a big enough tantrum and yell the same thing enough times, people will believe you
CrimeConCarney the corrupt lying bastard should keep his mouth shut he is no better it is because of this bastard that Canada s divided
There are few quicker ways to announce to the world that you are a MAGA moron than referring to Liberal voters as “leftists”. It’s actually hilarious how stupid Poilievre fan boys and Maple MAGAts are. Weird little cretins with mouths bigger than their brains.
Carney got his big boy pants on for the media. Behind the scenes he’s gettin low for Musk. 95% assets in the US? Oh Carney is Canadian. Elbows up boomers
Is this a joke? People can say or think what ever they want.
Stop the propaganda with everything US related.
Approval ratings mean absolutely nothing and are conducted by independent, private parties with zero regulation and zero auditing, in exchange for money.
They have been found to be little more than hyper-partisan groups manipulating public opinion no different than a marketing campaign.
You have to have zero credibility and zero critical thinking skills to offer up polls as evidence of anything but marketing hype.
It’s like when companies claim their product can’t be beat months before coming out with a newer product at a higher cost they claim is better than their old product.
@lizsug. You have opinions on Trump. Better censor yourself if you want to render an opinion about the USA. Or are you demonstrating hypocrisy? Sure would love to see your evidence of what you think is great about Dithers Carney. Cause his biggest accomplishment to date is outspending Trudeau on the deficit side of things.
As exemplified by his saying so, and other idiot perspectives on free speech.
@ Evans – Carney has the highest approval rating of any Canadian PM. You are a merely member of a cranky minority.
Ruthlessness is more important than intelligence wealth acquisition. Elon need to concentrate on keeping SpaceX rockets from experiencing ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’.
As usual the opinion of an individual is being blown out of proportion into the “culture wars”. Carney. The Government of Canada shouldn’t be telling AB or PQ what to do, but you do anyway.
Blocking politucal commentary is as liw as joyrnalism goes, Uday.
Live to fight another day.
It is not big tech. It is Elon Musk who is one of the most intelligent people in the world. If he says it is a logical decision for some provinces to separate, I would listen to him instead of our lame duck Prime Minister that cannot even make trade deals with our largest customer.
Large corporations can’t tell us what to do unless of course it’s my friend’s at Brookfield !!! That would be a more accurate statement by Carney.
Carney’s reaction just further shows how insecure and triggerred little Canada is. Musk was just giving his opinion, not instructions.
Not defending Musk nor supporting him. For me this is his opinion and that is all that is stated, his opinion… which everyone is entitled to have. It’s not like he can make any province separate.
Some of these politicians need to check their emotional balance.
You leftists complain about musk critizing Canada. Yet you all seem ok with helping the Democrats with trump losing the midterms hahahahaha you can’t make this up. And to those that call separatists are traitors. May e it’s the Canadian government are traitors to their people’s. Elbows up pants down.
All he is doing is getting us riled up and creating a demand for more independent nationalism. Trump did the same and it caused carney and the people to do something. Musk is just reminding us that actions speak louder than words.
Les – got teeth? Support Musk and Trump – you’re just hot for billionaire love. Can’t justify what Carney is up too…? It’s called an education – get one!!! Naysayers are days from being left in the dust.
Tell musk to deal with trump and USA. Stay away from Canada. Actually go back to south Africa. Enough meddling in politics. Out with you ! Carney doing great 🍁
The only saving grace is that Musk has such little credibility to the point of negative credibitility, that his text will have the opposite effect and will further unify all Canadians. sadly, he is in such desperate need for attention (despite his immense wealth), that the rest of have to suffer reading about his inane texts. I am not on X and never will be, but everyone should separate themselves from that social media site and the pariah that owns it.
Elon is correct as usual.
Elon is not trying to tell them what to do. He is giving his opinion. Here, let me try….. I personally feel Alberta and Quebec should both separate. For social cohesion, can should split into 4 separate countries due to its size. Western Canada, Central Canada, Eastern Canada, and Northern Canada. We are all too different with vastly different cultures, goals, and world views.
Big tech are only interested in the AI data center boom. They are not interested in the infrastructure projects that the Major Projects Office has identified. The money managers at the Canada Strong Summit were much more diversified than the tech folks.
A derelict Idiot like Trump & Epstein who buys his kids cause he can’t produce them!!!
This is a government that is seeking investment from big tech and other corporations, while also investing in them and implementing policies they have asked for.
Carney is a fraud and if he were measured against any standards the rest of us are required to adhere to be would be fending of billion dollar lawsuits and criminal indictment.
Says the man seeking investment from big tech to create AI to tell us what to do and what to think.
I am so tired of these puerile platitudes that amount to nothing but hollow words. This is a government doing things at the request of corporations be they big tech or any other industry, including ending up in legal disputes and loss of investment in primarily big tech investments they have made.
If he were actually an investment advisor his clients would be suing him.
Only Chinese and EU bureaucrats can tell Carney and his Elbows Up-a-teer militia what to do. So Musk can pound sand.
Ohhh what a big tough guy. Trump must be shaking in his boots.
Pathetic joke of a leader for the pathetic joke of a people that Canadians are.
Carney. You can’t tell the USA what to do either.
Sure Big Tech can’t tell us what to do
Would be nice to have a PM who can
This one with his kids at school in the US and his business in the US and himself mostly in the EU is electioneering against Trump instead of providing leadership for Canada
But Big Pharma can?!?
Elon can bite me.
What Bill said
Let Quebec leave, I’m sick of Bilingualism. This country was divided right from the beginning, we can’t even speak one language amongst ourselves. Quebec is 99% Liberals, they don’t have the same values as the rest of Canada.
Anyone can tell us what to do. We choose to listen or not.
Funny that Carney pays attention to Musk, but not Canadians.
Alberta out!!!
Canada needs to tariff Tesla, ban X and stop doing business with other Musk entities. Every post like this is foreign interference and a threat to national security.
Big tech? You mean a pro free speech platform? Probably the most popular free speech platform. Canada is a dead nation
Elon Musk gets my vote if he wants to run for PM!!!!!
So Homelander Carney this will be decided by Canadians for Canadians and by Canadians for the people of Quebec?
This is why we have such division and a separatist movement in Canada. Homelander Carney should have just said Canadians will make decisions for all Canadians period instead of calling the people of Quebec differently. To have a unified county we need leadership that works to unify not divide and we have not seen that by any federal give for many years.
Mark Carney is a bully. Look at him get so mad at being stood up to. He’s not used to this. Mark Carneys ego has taken one heck of a beating this year HAHAHAHA.
“China will decide the future of Canada.” Said Mark Carney oops sorry a little Freudian slip what I actually meant to say was “Canadians, er, yes Canadians, I think will er, and when I say Canadians I mean of course, elbows up Canadians, will decide the future of Canada, along with our new allies in China and the EU of course. There fixed it.” Mark C.
Elon Musk should separate from his big yap.
Separatists are really a polite word for traitors
Dont they know yet, carney is god now. This is HIS country, he makes the rules and enforces the policies that rob us of our safety and our stability. The corruption runs deep, he will never be told what to do. In his eyes he is GOD
Why didn’t Carney mention the priorities of Alberta like he did Quebec. ? Maybe because he thinks Quebec is more important than Alberta. Carney should have stopped at all Canadians but then again Quebec has never considered themselves part of Canada except for when they receive money.