With standardized anti-money laundering laws ubiquitous – irrespective legislative niceties, costs, harm, or impact – almost any country can adopt the Canadian model at any time.

This has potential ramifications far beyond Canada.

The impact is clear. Canada has provided a template illustrating how just about any country can weaponize standardized, ubiquitous anti-money laundering laws that already exist today, in virtually identical terms, in more than 200 countries and jurisdictions.

Only time will tell, but it is possible that absurdities laid bare in Canada might generate discussion about others hidden in plain sight, such as official narratives about cryptocurrencies (the latest industry being brought under the dead hand of anti-money laundering regulations), Central Bank Digital Currencies (weaponizable money, promoted as benign), and decades of false anti-money laundering narratives that many people appear to have internalized, unaware of manifold absurdities firmly anchored in nonsense.