"Exercise a high degree of caution in ~~China~~ Canada due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws."
Indigenous Canadians, environmental activists, Meng Wanzhou, and many others would like to have a word.
severe punishments, even for non-violent acts such as financial crimes
I love how we define violence as something involving bodily harm in an encounter between individual people. Therefore denying a person housing or food isn't violent, because the perpetrator of the harm has been abstracted and the harm doesn't look like cuts, bruises, and broken bones. The richest Canadians are committing violent acts each and every day by hiding basic human rights behind pay walls, and it's not only not illegal, it's how the system is supposed to work.