- Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke faced backlash for suggesting that only income earners should vote and that high earners should have more electoral power.
- Lütke dismissed politically engaged Toronto residents as 'unemployed, unemployable, and useful idiots.'
- He earned $205.5 million in 2024, making him Canada's highest-paid CEO, with an estimated net worth of US$10.1 billion.
- Critics argue that wealth does not equate to wisdom or empathy, and that such proposals undermine democratic equality.
- This is not Lütke's first controversy; in 2017, he defended Shopify hosting Breitbart News under free speech principles.