jrklaus8 builds Mike a Canadian compliance spine before the legal brain

jrklaus8 kept Mike's existing interface and wired it to a brand-new backend built for Canadian practice - designed around CanLII (Canada's free case-law database), the McGill citation standard, and Law Society of Ontario audit requirements. The most finished part isn't the legal smarts; it's the compliance plumbing. Before anything reaches an outside AI model, the system scrubs social insurance numbers, emails, and phone numbers, and it hashes the lawyer's ID so the audit log never stores who did what in plain form. The setup also defaults to running the AI locally rather than in the cloud, citing Law Society obligations as the reason.

Be clear-eyed about the stage: the actual Canadian case-law lookup is still a placeholder. The privacy and audit scaffolding is real and adaptable; the retrieval engine behind it isn't built yet. The personal-data scrubbing is also basic and will miss some formats.