this government had a choice of models to pick from, including it's own research, and it picked the most authoritarian, most draconian, most heavy-handed, most right-wing, most conservative models that it could find.
countries like singapore, china, south korea and taiwan - fascist states.
and, we're seeing the obvious result of it - we are now afraid of our own government.
congratulations; that's an accomplishment. no more than ten years ago, we had one of the strongest levels of trust in our government on the planet, justified or not.
we were once like sweden.
now we're like singapore.
welcome to the dark ages, canada. they could last a while...