Posted originally on May 29, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/medical-kidnapping-legal-in-canada/a.

At the center of the controversy is a declaration Wagter submitted through the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System. In that filing, he appears to challenge the legitimacy of a financial patent involving leverage structures, derivatives positioning, automated transaction sequencing, volatility calculations, and remote financial processing systems. His position appears to be that these mechanisms were already deeply embedded within finance and software architecture long before the patent filing itself and therefore should not qualify as a novel invention deserving protection.

That matters because patents tied to financial technologies can be worth enormous sums of money. Modern finance is built on proprietary systems, algorithms, automated trading architecture, derivatives models, and transaction processing frameworks. Entire firms are valued around ownership claims tied to intellectual property. When someone publicly argues that certain patents merely repackage pre-existing concepts under new language, it threatens far more than academic prestige.

People are not disturbed simply because of the patent filing itself. They are disturbed because shortly afterward the public narrative surrounding Wagter allegedly shifted toward mental instability. Discussion surrounding his social media usage began as he posted “conspiracy” theories. Openly questioning the narrative is illegal. He was deemed medically insane by the system without any medical oversight. The video of his arrest has gone viral as this man was hunted down by Vancouver police and taken away to a hospital against his will.

Canada has quietly built one of the most expansive psychiatric intervention systems in the Western world under provincial mental health acts. Authorities can legally detain individuals for psychiatric evaluation if they are considered a danger to themselves or others, or even if they are deemed mentally incapable of caring for themselves properly. The threshold is often subjective and similar to the charge of conspiracy as no actual incident needs to take place. Police, doctors, or family complaints are all it takes for someone to be carted off to a hospital. In some provinces, individuals can initially be held for up to 72 hours without consent, with extensions available afterward through medical authorization.

No criminal conviction is required. No jury trial occurs. No public burden of proof exists comparable to criminal proceedings. Once a psychiatric framework is introduced, institutional authority expands dramatically. Doctors and administrators suddenly hold powers that in any other context would require a court proceeding.

The frightening part is that governments increasingly frame all dissent through the lens of public safety, misinformation, extremism, instability, or mental health risk. During the trucker protests, Canada froze bank accounts without criminal trials. Speech laws have expanded aggressively. Online monitoring has intensified. MAID and assisted suicide laws expanded while mental health systems simultaneously gained broader authority. People are beginning to notice that nearly every modern crisis somehow results in institutions obtaining more power over the individual.

Whether Wagter is right or wrong about the patent dispute becomes secondary. The larger fear is how widespread this tactic will become in Canada as dissent grows. Any act against the status quo will result in government declaring you either crazy or a criminal who can no longer exist within the confines of society.