Apparently this needs to be very, very clear: Canadians are polite, not stupid. Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄 www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0... The lies aren’t even plausible. - ThreadSky

mikamckinnon.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Apparently this needs to be very, very clear: Canadians are polite, not stupid.

Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/03/06/ctv-national-news-a-suspicious-spike-in-tesla-sales-in-canada/

The lies aren’t even plausible.

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westy44.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Manufacturers have a habit of forcing dealerships to register vehicles as sold then putting on sale as “used” to keep the new registrations going up.

oldehippi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who bought them? Agents for Musk?

mira-sorrel.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I doubt it, Trump's MAGAts don't want a car that doesn't pollute and progressives are trying to sell off or donate their Teslas as fast as possible. Driving Swasticars is shameful and they keep getting flat tires.

rogerdempsey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who is investigating this ?

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Transport Canada

gnarlygale.bsky.social•23 hours ago

conservatives are notorious for propping up their stooges with bulk purchases, so if it wasn’t just some crooked accounting and there were actual sales it was probably one very wealthy fascist trying to create a propaganda story and fuck canada at the same time

marcgwiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

A lot of Canadians are sick of this guy. Over 300000 already have signed a petition to revoke his Canadian Citizenship: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5353

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Considering he has birthright citizenship, that would be a very dangerous can of worms to open.

But sedition or treason? Not yet, but he’s sloppy.

amadeaur.bsky.social•1 day ago

How on earth does he have "birthright" citizenship???? he was born in Pretoria South Africa?!?!?!? I am so confused by that lmao, words apparently have no meaning.

marcgwiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was also unsure but checked -- in Canada, if at least one parent is born here, then the kid gets citizenship irrespective of where they're born. I think it might still be revoke-able if treason, etc.
Source:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/eligibility/already-citizen.html

roldie.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Well, you see, Tesla is very popular and performing really well lately. Like, all over the world, people simply can't get enough Teslas.

roldie.bsky.social•23 hours ago

See?

mjprieve.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The Canadians aren’t being so polite anymore.

barbok81.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Good.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•22 hours ago

So what do you all think happened. No way I believe it. Canadians are on to his monster.

pseudandry.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Quebec one that would have had to have been shipping a car every 22 seconds to make the sales they claimed? Buddy, the math ain't mathing

billstewart.bsky.social•1 day ago

I assume these car dealerships have receipts from Canadian Customs for all the cars they imported into the country, right?
With serial numbers and everything?
And car registrations with the province including VINs?
And they weren't just selling the same cars back and forth with other dealerships?

pseudandry.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh don't worry the VINs and all the documentation will sus this all out. I doubt anyone was smart enough to come up with a thousand different documented customers

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just for fun:
On Saturday, January 11th, Tesla was 10am-9pm.

That’s a car sold every 33 seconds in one location, blazing through more than the average daily January new car sales for ALL of Ontario.

Nothing to see here, totally legit. Not defrauding the government at all.

clordtc.bsky.social•1 day ago

how does one go about getting that dealership shut the fuck down at that point

alien8n.co.uk•1 day ago

Well being prosecuted for $43M fraud might do it…

clordtc.bsky.social•1 day ago

lets do that then

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•23 hours ago

More details: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/tesla-gamed-the-system-canadian-auto-dealers-stiffed-millions-when-u-s-giant-rushed-to/article_6d1025c6-fa0a-11ef-b780-a73277202cb2.html (subscription required)

Four Tesla dealerships executed a bank run to drain remaining electric vehicle rebates. A dealership with 200 lot spaces claimed 1700 sales. 🙄

2,295 legit claims across 226 independent dealerships that weekend get nothing.

jensmyth.bsky.social•23 hours ago

My favorite part is the defunct strip mall parking lot full of Teslas.

serrata.org•17 hours ago

Now I'm hoping Canadian law enforcement looks into it and starts criminally charging people involved up to and including King Ketamine

peteturner.bsky.social•19 hours ago

In fairness I suspect it may have gone something like:

Boss: The subsidy's ending - have we submitted all the receipts for the last year?
Overworked employee: What!? No-one told me these had to be sent somewhere!
Boss: Get them in on time or you're fired.

Incompetence much more common than malice.

gmarie55.bsky.social•7 hours ago

No paywall here...
https://archive.ph/7Pxg6

shrinkinthebox.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Cannot roll my eyes any harder.

raddrrach.bsky.social•23 hours ago

ericleitzen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Straight up late Soviet stuff

davebrowne.bsky.social•1 day ago

And, unlike other dealerships, Tesla owns these ones. This isn't some used care salesman trying a scam. This is Telsa deliberately scheming to steal from Canadians.

oldmanserious.bsky.social•1 day ago

So does that mean a nice shiny fraud investigation?

davebrowne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Given how much they've all pissed Canada off, I hope so.

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Transport Canada is investigating both the claimed sales and the timing, as all this took place in the 3 days before rebates ended.

southernspring.bsky.social•1 day ago

I bet the doge boys set up this scam and I bet they stole the American presidential election using the same tactic, whatever it is. Things don’t add up. I bet Canadian journalists will learn the truth!

southernspring.bsky.social•1 day ago

Whut ?!

Go get ‘em Canadians!

walterverse.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This is a straight up scam, what more do they need to investigate? Hopefully this isn't like the RCMP Ford "investigation" going on now 1 year 4 months old. Transport Canada better do better. Anand is more thorough

walterverse.bsky.social•21 hours ago

jailing lying Tesla dealers would be so hot right now

sarahdearing.bsky.social•1 day ago

What should we do with that $43 million when we claw it back? Continue work on a competitor?

https://www.projectarrow.ca

nothingnx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lies?

strrfry.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are setting fire to them in France.

waynemateri.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Time for a forensic audit.

kimberstowe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk has been successful based purely on his ability to manipulate the media into believing he’s a genius (he’s not) as well as his ability to manipulate government subsidies and tax breaks. This is what sociopaths do really really well….

mikamckinnon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let’s see if he can propagate his cons when:
1. He’s personally offended an entire country
2. He’s too lazy to scale his scams to blend in with local context
3. He’s visibly pillaging what was our closest ally

serrata.org•17 hours ago

I take particular issue with the *Elon Whisperers" like Kara swisher that likely be l knew alot about him like his racism and such but chose never to report it until her tell all book after he'd stopped taking her calls. There's others to be sure but she helped make him.

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