Over 80 Tesla cars were damaged in the car room parking lot in the city of Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario. This is the most serious act of vandalism in Canada directed against Elona Muska. Canadian police initiated an investigation in this matter.
Car damage includes, among others, cut tires and deep scratches on the car body – said the police of the city of Hamilton, lying west of Toronto in Thursday's press release. There is currently a review of cameras recordings to determine the details, the police were informed about the event on Wednesday.
Attacks on Tesle
Canadian media emphasize that so far attacks on Tesla salons in Canada They had a smaller scale. On Monday, among others, a suspicious fire of the Tesla car in the parking lot at one of the shopping centers in the city of London in the province of Ontario.
On Wednesday, the entrance and walls of the Tesla salon in Montreal were sprayed with pink paint. Therefore, the police detained a 21-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man with this event, and the “Last Generation Canada” group took responsibility for that act of vandalism. In the statement on its website, the group wrote that Canada must “oppose” to Elon Musk, who “destroys democracy and disseminates the negation of climate change.” “This is clear – billionaires and fuel concerns give the war of humanity,” it was said.
Source: Reuters
Collecting signatures for a parliamentary petition
In recent days, protests were also held in Canada, sometimes several people against Tesla and its owner Elon Musk. From February 20, the signatures of a parliamentary petition in the matter of taking Musk Canadian citizenship, which his mother was born in Canada, has been underway. On Friday, there were almost 376.5 thousand signatures under this petition. Musk initially reacted to the petition with an entry on his platform X that “Canada is not a real country.” This entry, according to the media, was later deleted.
According to data from Shop4tesla.com, Tesla sales in Canada fell by 70 percent in January this year compared to December last year. This is the result of the end of the federal subsidy program and the increase in car prices, which in turn caused the Tesla loss of subsidies for purchase offered in Colombia British and Quebek.
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Source: PAP
Source of the main photo: Reuters