I'm Canadian
The thing that really scared the shit out of all my peers wasn't punishing people, it was the locking bank accounts and taking money from people with absolutely no due process at all.
No trial, no charges, just government doesn't like you, you're money is now gone.
This is a line that had never been crossed before and instantly hurt Canada's reputation on the world stage. I had friends from the Bahamas, not FTX related:) and Europe reach out on the day after it went public to ask what the hell is going on with Canada.
It was a huge black eye for Canada.
I know alot of people who immediately sent money out of the country, to the US, crypto, to foreign realestate.
I'm still proudly Canadian, but the harm our government did by taking money with absolutely no judicial oversite can not be overstated.
We used to be a country of laws, the government just set the precedent that they no longer need courts.
I still live here, have assets here and pay taxes here, but governments bypassing the courts and taking peoples assets with no oversite is a line that just should never have happened.
And to be clear, I wasn't happy about the convoy and I do think that blocking border crossing was something that shouldn't have happened, but the police should have dealt with it, not the government by reaching into peoples accounts and taking money from them without a court order.