{"id":924531,"date":"2026-10-07T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:20:09","slug":"elon-musk-says-quebec-alberta-and-saskatchewan-should-separate-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924531\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s richest man, Elon Musk, has backed Quebec independence and said Alberta and Saskatchewan should leave Canada, too, coming days after the separatist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois returned to power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGood. Quebec should separate,\u201d the billionaire owner of X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2107888605318517007?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote on Wednesday<\/a>, responding to a post about incoming premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon\u2019s pledge that Quebec independence would one day be achieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey would be better off. Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate, too,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2107888889629483404?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he added<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s richest man, Elon Musk, has backed Quebec independence and said Alberta and Saskatchewan should leave Canada,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-924531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}