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File No. 142503 · Adjudicated
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur — Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter)
Born
1971
Birthplace
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Citizenships
ZA / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
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 soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Canadian parentage — yes
One Canadian parent
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — no
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 — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
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
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