A man in Vancouver was "certified insane" on a sidewalk with no evaluation.

A psychiatrist saw him in a cafe weeks earlier and signed the paperwork from across the room. No exam. No hearing. No judge. When police came to collect him, he was calm, cooperative, and asked to attend an appointment voluntarily. They took him to a hospital anyway.

Days earlier he'd been at a school board meeting warning about authoritarian federal laws. Shortly after, he was certified and picked up off a street.

This is the same country that froze trucker convoy donors' bank accounts without court orders. The same country building laws to define what you can say, record everything you do online, and cut your internet if they consider you a threat.

It's always framed as safety. The architecture is always control. Self-custodial money exists for exactly this reason.