Elon Musk

Entrepreneur — Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter)

Born

1971

Birthplace

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

Citizenships

ZA / CA

Canadianness Score

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2.0/ 5

Weighted across 6 scored criteria

Designation

Gets Yearly Letters from the CRA 📬

Not born or raised there — but the CRA always knows where to find them.

Scorecard

Path B — not born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

Canadian parentage

One Canadian parent

Citizenship on record

Held — by descent or naturalisation

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised elsewhere

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

No Canadian credits on file

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Has never brought it up

Canada claims them back

No claim lodged

Fun fact

He got Canadian citizenship specifically to make it easier to move to the US. Very on-brand.

The verdict

Born in Pretoria, South Africa, he obtained Canadian citizenship through his mother Maye Musk — a Canadian from Regina, Saskatchewan — and used it as a stepping stone to the United States. He briefly attended Queen's University in Kingston before transferring to Penn. Canada was a transit lounge, not a home.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable