> https://www.fca-caf.ca/en/pages/decisions/plain-language-dec...

Huh, I wasn't aware of that, thanks. Looks like it only came out a couple months ago, which would explain how I missed it. But that indeed does seem pretty conclusive, so I'll gladly concede that point.

I'd still say that this is just standard government overreach/misuse of power and not corruption though.

> Ironically the exit of the Cabinet members highlights further corruption. Canada has transferred ~25 Billion to Ukraine. The minister responsible for the debanking of Canadians has left Canada and taken an official post in the Ukrainian government for the distribution of this money.

Ok, this one definitely sounds like corruption though. I haven't heard of this one before, so I'm not entirely sure about the details, but what you said does seem to broadly agree with what the linked Wikipedia article says.

And yeah, I agree that this sounds pretty bad.

> In short you have completely no understanding of the level of corruption in this country.

C'mon, there's no need for a semi-personal semi-attack here! I'm a Canadian living in Canada, so I like to think that I have a good idea what's going on in the country, but I'm of course mistaken sometimes.

Still, I think that you picked fairly weak examples; better ones would be the Sponsorship Scandal [0], the WE scandal [1], Aga Khan [2], and so on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship_scandal

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE_Charity_scandal

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_affair

Looks like it only has 6 discrete components [0], and the pinout on the MCU looks like a standard QFP [1] (and everything else is on larger pads), so I think that you should be able to manufacture this using standard production techniques/manufacturers. But I know hardly anything about hardware, so I may be completely wrong here.

[0]: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f7962d5-38e1-4bd...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_flat_package

> The Canadian gov debanked people during a legitimate protest using the emergency act (among other violations).

Ok, but I don't see how that's corruption. Switching to some American examples, I've never heard anyone refer to the jailing of MLK [0], the shooting of Vietnam War protesters [1], or Stonewall [2] as "corruption", and these are all much more extreme than the 2022 Canadian protests.

> This was later ruled to be an illegitimate use of this act.

Do you have a source for this? Because §28.7 of the report from the independent commission [3] states that its use was legitimate:

  For these reasons, I have concluded that Cabinet was reasonably
  concerned that the situation it was facing was worsening and at risk of
  becoming dangerous and unmanageable. There was credible and compelling
  evidence supporting both a subjective and objective reasonable belief in
  the existence of a public order emergency. The decision to invoke the
  Act was appropriate.

It was a decision made by the Cabinet while acting in its official capacity, so parliamentary privilege [4] means that there could never be any criminal consequences, no matter how severe what they did was. Political actions generally only have political consequences, and considering that Justin Trudeau and much of the Cabinet resigned a couple years later [5], I'd argue that there were in fact some consequences.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign#Martin_Lut...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

[3]: https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/documents/Fi...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege#Canada

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_Canadian_pol...

Compared to what? Everything is corrupt in some sense, but Canada generally ranks pretty well compared to most other countries [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Canada

Much like the US, in Canada, the Federal government has relatively little influence on day-to-day life, and the general culture is heavily location-dependent. So someone moving to downtown Toronto will have a very different experience from someone moving to rural Alberta.