Really?
> As of Sunday, the national police force said in a statement, 219 “financial products” had been frozen, 253 Bitcoin addresses related to protesters and organizers had been given to virtual currency exchange operators, and a bank had frozen 3.8 million Canadian dollars held by a payment processor. [1]
> Corrupt governments like Canada
I'm also curious as to the definition of "corruption" you're choosing to use here, as it seems to be totally foreign to the one I understand the one I'm able to find definitions for online.
You're free to go to the ballot box to vote in a different set of politicians or petition for reforms to be passed. The emergency act powers are certainly controversial & we can have a debate about whether those powers are overbroad but I don't see how that's corruption (in which case the PATRIOT Act and the TSA are corruption but then that word loses all meaning). We can have debates about the ability for law enforcement to ruin your life without the legal system even getting involved. That's still not corruption by any definition I can find. To my knowledge, the balances of these accounts weren't transferred anywhere. The government did this to disperse the protests that were phenomenally more disruptive to the Canadian economy than the BLM protests were to the US economy in a drastically less violent response than what the BLM protestors saw from Washington DC (& all around the country).
Generally the definition of corruption I'm familiar with is members of the government making decisions that aren't in the best interest of the people they are governing but instead enrich themselves or their allies or otherwise wielding their power for self-interest goals, particularly through subterfuge and dishonesty. The goal of the government to be good stewards of the public good and for the public to have faith that they're doing that. Democracy depends on full information about the goings on of those in the government being available to voters. That's why subterfuge is generally a key component of corruption.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...