{"id":17231,"date":"2025-01-12T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/canadas-election-is-about-to-have-an-elon-musk-problem-with-trudeaus-exit\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:37:48","slug":"canadas-election-is-about-to-have-an-elon-musk-problem-with-trudeaus-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/canadas-election-is-about-to-have-an-elon-musk-problem-with-trudeaus-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest man looks to move Canada to the right as the beleaguered prime minister prepares to depart<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the Canadian prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/justin-trudeau\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>, this week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/06\/justin-trudeau-to-step-down-as-canada-prime-minister\">resign as head of the Liberal party<\/a> has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s America First economic nationalism. It has also given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tesla\">Tesla<\/a>\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country\u2019s political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Since Trudeau\u2019s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X \u2013 the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada\u2019s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau\u2019s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/canada-election-elon-musk-justin-trudeau\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/024ac31a7c3843ebac2ea9e9de73da9ffe210b10\/1_0_2998_1800\/master\/2998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=46bb93e4d0f03fe890b03af28c2a5054\" title=\"Canada\u2019s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau\u2019s exit\" \/>The world\u2019s richest man looks to move Canada to the right as the beleaguered prime minister prepares to depart<br \/>\nThe 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\u2019s America First economic nationalism. It has also given Tesla\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country\u2019s political turmoil.<br \/>\nSince Trudeau\u2019s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X \u2013 the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada\u2019s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau\u2019s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/canadas-election-is-about-to-have-an-elon-musk-problem-with-trudeaus-exit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada\u2019s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau\u2019s exit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}