Within days of the Ottawa attack Harper talks of ramping up hate laws and giving the state new powers that “would include ‘preventive arrests,’ potentially taking the country down the slippery slope of guilty-until-proven innocent authoritarian policies”. This is “terrorism used as a catalyst to break down civil liberties and accumulate more state power.” This is how dictatorships form and Harper is wasting no time in seizing the opportunity(?). This is the wrong way of dealing with the threat. Minority Report is here. It makes one question who the real terrorist is.