This is pretty confusing. Regarding work permits in Canada, remote work is explicitly not considered "work": https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...

> Examples of activities for which a person would not normally be remunerated or which would not compete directly with Canadian citizens or permanent residents in the Canadian labour market and which would normally be part-time or incidental to the reason that the person is in Canada include, but are not limited to:

> long distance (by telephone or Internet) work done by a temporary resident whose employer is outside Canada and who is remunerated from outside Canada