The OP asked if Canada was becoming a police state. I think we have a long way to go before that would be a good description but I do think it is becoming a harder place. We've adopted a foreign-policy of bombing and rhetoric. We are filling our prisons with more and more people for longer and longer. We have controversial new spy laws. We see the government attempting to muzzle various groups they disagree with in various ways.
Even little things like airport customs officers wearing body armor, park rangers carrying sidearms, city police going to old-school black-and-white cruisers with battering rams on the front.
One gets the impression that Canada is becoming very dangerous place when in fact it is if anything a tiny bit more dangerous than it has been.
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