UM TodayElon Musk – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Canadian Press: Ottawa’s $2B loan for satellites has Tories calling for Elon Musk to step in https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-canadian-press-ottawas-2b-loan-for-satellites-has-tories-calling-for-elon-musk-to-step-in/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-canadian-press-ottawas-2b-loan-for-satellites-has-tories-calling-for-elon-musk-to-step-in/#respond Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:17:31 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=203624 Ottawa's $2B loan for satellites has Tories calling for Elon Musk to step in]]> James Fergusson, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba, said Musk is “a Trump guy” who has “said things which conflict with American foreign policy as it now exists.”

But he pointed out the U.S. Defence Department uses SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company.

“To the Americans, he’s not a security problem.”

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