if you use a credit card to pay for mullvad or buy a voucher from the Canadian amazon store, there would be financial records of that. Peaceful protestors in canada have already been de-banked yes, the trucker's protestors. The media is evil and they lie constantly...don't trust them.

So maybe the banks in canada would be set to block any transactions to buy VPN subscriptions or to buy anything even related to subverting control. There's already been talk about banning bitcoin and other cryptocurrency like Monaro. They claim it's to protect the environment, but really it's because cryptocurrency is impossible for one single person to control.

but then there's VPN providers like Nym which are run entirely by volunteers. Totally de-centralized networks for VPN providers might be the future. People from Proton have already talked about doing that if they couldn't run it they way they currently do.