From Musk to mushrooms, Canadian buyers let money do the talking amid tariff turmoil [Video]

Finance worker Michael Atkinson is a fan of electric cars, but lately he found himself embarrassed to drive his Tesla Model 3 around Vancouver.

Dismayed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his association with U.S. President Donald Trump, Atkinson now drives an electric Volkswagen ID.4 after returning his Tesla to the dealership with two months left on the lease.

The final straw was Trump’s planned tariffs on Canadian products, which struck Atkinson as a “horrible economic idea.”

“It’s gonna hurt Americans, it’s certainly going to hurt Canadians and he is using it as essentially blackmail to try to make us consider being a 51st state,” said Atkinson about the threatened tariffs.

He was speaking just before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump said on Monday that the tariffs were on hold for a month.

Atkinson, who works for a credit union, is part of a wave of Canadians turning their …