Damn, I just lost $100. Thanks. We had a bet on how long it would take for somebody to say "just relocate your entire company and all your staff's lives to another jurisdiction".
Slightly off topic: you have a broken link in your blog post titled 'Submission regarding “The Assistance And Access Bill 2018”'. The link [2] in the line "For more information around this submission, see our <blog post> about the bill" leads to a 404 page not found.
Ah Melbourne in the "between spring and summer"... the storms recently have been impressive. But next week we enter the Xmas slumber and hot weather...
I didn't think Canada was doing much better than us (Australia) with these kind of crazy, over-reaching laws. You'd probably have to find somewhere in Europe.
Not part of any "X eyes" arrangement, but at least some parties within Switzerland are strongly engaged in partnering with foreign secret services, apparently without any consequences by the Swiss state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Compromised_machines