Elon Musk backs Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan leaving Canada

The world's first trillionaire weighs in as Alberta heads to the polls on Oct. 19 and Quebec's new separatist government prepares to take office.

Efron Monsanto
  |   October 07, 2026   |   News   |   7 Comments

 

Update: Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith has responded to Elon Musk saying “I strongly disagree with his opinion. Our government, our Caucus, and our party support Alberta remaining in Canada. We trust the judgement of Albertans and look forward to seeing the direction Albertans give us on October 19th.”

The world's richest man has a message for the Liberal government in Ottawa: let them go.

Space X owner Elon Musk posted his support for three provinces separating from Canada, two days after the separatist Parti Québécois won Quebec's election as a minority government.

"Good. Quebec should separate," Musk wrote on Wednesday afternoon in reply to a Polymarket post about Quebec's incoming premier, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, declaring that his dream of Québécois independence "will be realized one day."

A minute later, Musk went further, suggesting Quebec "would be better off" and that "Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate too."

Earlier in the day, Musk had quote-posted Rebel News founder Ezra Levant, who wrote that "Quebec just handed power to a party that wants out of Canada." Musk's reply was one word: "True."

The PQ won Monday's election with a projected 56 seats, enough to form a minority government. St-Pierre Plamondon has promised a referendum on leaving Canada during his first term, though not before January.

Musk's posts land at a tense moment for Canada.

Albertans vote October 19 on a referendum question that includes an option to begin a binding process toward separation. Independence campaigners have spent months arguing that Ottawa takes the province's oil wealth for granted and gives little back.

With more than 200 million followers, Musk can put a fringe idea in front of more people in a minute than the $1.2 billion per year funding from the taxpayers, CBC, reaches in a year.

Rebel News reached out to the Prime Minister's Office for comment.

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Formerly Hamilton-based, now Toronto man and Head of Video Production for Rebel News, Efron Monsanto joined as an intern in 2017 and has been a Rebel ever since. While witnessing Canada succumb to government overreach through the powers of un-elected medical bureaucrats, he became a video journalist. Documenting police and municipal thuggery alike, he strives to shine light on the darkness that is covering Canada’s liberty.

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  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-10-09 13:21:16 -0400
    FG: “Aufregung im Hühnerstall” means uproar in the chicken coop.
  • Fran g
    commented 2026-10-09 13:05:01 -0400
    OK Bernhard, Im baitied, what does that translate to? Not surprised with over 11 yrs of liberal slop. This is what trudumb and carnage have worked for and of course meanwhile got more wealthy along the way. Do you think this could open the eyes of some brainwashed socialists finally. One can only hope.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-10-08 00:24:15 -0400
    RB: I think the German phrase “Aufregung im Hühnerstall” nicely describes the reaction of many Canadians.
  • Ruth Bard
    commented 2026-10-07 22:00:35 -0400
    I love how Elon Musk can stick his oar in, however briefly, and get everyone all riled up.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-10-07 20:33:28 -0400
    It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the independence referenda.

    If Alberta leaves, there are promising formations in Quebec that can provide some oil. If Saskatchewan leaves, Canada won’t be in a position to sell much potash to anyone.

    If Quebec leaves, the aforementioned oilfields will go and much of Carney’s high-speed choo-choo train will be lost.

    Much of Canada’s aerospace industry will also leave as MDA Space uses the old SPAR Aerospace facilities in Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue and Bombardier has its headquarters in Montreal. That means that the country won’t be left with much of a “sovereign” space business, so Cape Elbows Up on Cape Breton Island might be gathering even more dust.

    I’m sure, though, Carney will be more concerned about how it affects the bottom line of Brookfield.
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2026-10-07 19:53:24 -0400
    Danielle Smith is blinded by smooth-talking Carney. That’s her weakness. Remember Jim Prentice? I’ll never forget December 17th, 2014, when Smith and 8 MLAs defected to the Progressive Conservatives. The NDP got in and destroyed Alberta’s advantage. We still don’t have coal power plants back online because of that hag fish Notley.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2026-10-07 15:45:00 -0400
    This will give Dippers like Heather McPherson yet one more reason to have Musk arrested. He’s already on her blacklist for the crime of being a trillionaire. And, no, reverting to billionaire status because the price of SpaceX stock pulled back won’t let him off the hook. She dislikes billionaires to the right of Chairman Mao, too.