Elon Musk bets a trillion dollars on a Mars colony for 1 million people
One thing is for certain: There's only one country in the world in which it could happen, and that's the United States of America.
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Article by Rebel News staff
Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show, the Earth's leading citizen is betting $1 trillion that he can start a colony on Mars, and that 1 million Earthlings will go there.
From PayPal to Tesla, Starlink to X, Elon Musk has already compiled a staggering list of achievements — not least of which is SpaceX.
Along the way, he’s also managed to win over Ezra Levant, who, just over a decade ago, was skeptical of Tesla’s role in the heavily subsidized electric vehicle industry. Nowadays, Ezra is a super-fan of the way Musk continues to horrify the Left with his coming out as a freedom activist, including his protection of free speech on platforms like X and spending $100 million of his own money in the last U.S. presidential election to stop the likes of Kamala Harris.
Musk operates with a level of freedom few can match, thanks in large part to his immense wealth. With a net worth of roughly $650 billion USD — nearing $1 trillion Canadian — he has the resources to pursue ideas on a scale most people can’t even imagine.
Now, his space transportation company, SpaceX, is reportedly considering going public. An IPO would open the door for investors around the world — but it also comes with a tradeoff: selling shares means giving up a portion of control.
That’s where things get interesting.
A recent Wall Street Journal headline reads: “SpaceX IPO will help Elon Musk consolidate power. Investors welcome it.”
The strategy is familiar. Musk is structuring things to maintain control — much like he has with Tesla — while tying his compensation and influence to extraordinarily ambitious milestones.
At Tesla, that means a $1 trillion compensation package contingent on hitting massive targets: an $8 trillion valuation, 20 million cars on the road, 10 million fully self-driving vehicles, a million robotaxis, and a million humanoid robots. If those goals aren’t met, he doesn’t get paid.
For SpaceX, the bar is just as high — if not higher. Musk is aiming for a $7.5 trillion valuation, roughly five times its current level. On top of that, he’s targeting the creation of a permanent Mars colony with at least one million residents, along with the development of space-based, orbiting data centers.
Will he really be able to hit these milestones? One thing is for certain: There's only one country in the world in which it could happen, and that's the United States of America.
GUEST: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom's lawyer Hatim Kheir joins the show to speak on their latest legal notice issued to the city of Ottawa.
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Fran G commented 2026-05-02 20:23:15 -0400I love Elon Musks X for freedom of speech for the world world. However, did you watch him in Davos, I found it very scary when he spoke very flipantly about his robots taking over human jobs.
I am already skeptical about any space travel at all ever actually being done. All this huge money being spent is beyond ridiculous, we have extensive problems to address on earth. Who the hell but idiots would want to live on Mars. This is a bloody pipe dream we should not encourage ego driven scientists to do. Sounds like the end of the world when you have gigantic nuclear plants spinning around the earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get real people, grow up. -
Angela Watt commented 2026-04-30 11:23:05 -0400Ottawa is an arrogant city because they’re protected by being our country’s capital & under the safety of the current government. How awful. WE need to move our capital to Winnipeg!! -
Angela Watt commented 2026-04-30 11:04:45 -0400I’ve recently spoke to someone who was in China in October of last year. He tells me that the EV’s there are incredible & WAAAYYYY better insofar as how the vehicles were made to help the people who owned them. The technology is far superior to the EV’s made in Canada & the U.S. I told him of my concern with spying by the Chinese, but he basically ignored my concerns – he’s Chinese. His parents are still in China which makes me wonder how he got here. He doesn’t have the usual “Chinese accent” at all so he’s obviously been here since childhood or maybe he was born here. I’m just curious as to why his parents are still there.
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Angela Watt commented 2026-04-30 11:01:05 -0400Well, it’s his money & I wish him success. There will be failures & lost lives but I understand the curiosity of humanity to explore. It’ll be interesting. I am an admirer of Elon as well Ezra.
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Matt Abrahams commented 2026-04-30 00:05:30 -0400Mars was not designed to support life.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-04-29 21:20:05 -0400What will Musk do about the radiation from our star, the sun? Colonies will have to be built underground to avoid solar storms. Interplanetary coronal mass ejections even put our space people in danger on the ISS. True Mars is further away but the radio active damage builds up in the human body.
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Ted d’Haene followed this page 2026-04-29 20:31:30 -0400
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2026-04-29 20:30:55 -0400Man was not "made"to live out of earths gravity. My opinion only.
