Is Repression Mr. Day's Real Goal or Just a Nasty Side-effect?

I watched two senators on Politics yesterday. It was hard to hear every word the Liberal senator Baker was saying because the con Statton (sp?) was talking over him and Newman was going on about managing the time, but what Baker was trying to point out was why the passage of the law-and-order bills is being held up. Apparently, just like the innocents who have to be humiliated by airport security, now police with a suspicion that one might be driving high on drugs will be able to ask you to hop along a straight line and pee in a bottle. Baker, bless his heart, found this an unacceptable way to treat someone who is presumed innocent. Clearly someone is looking out for us as Mr. Day weaves his tangled web of repressive legislation.

One of Canada's great qualities is that its citizens can live their lives with dignity - that is, they could until Mr. Day embraced the fear-mongering right and started to initiate regulations and laws that have little effect except to repress and humiliate law-abiding citizens, ordinary people who have lived their lives without any contact with any forces of enforcement in this society.
The change started with so-called airport security. Trust me, we are no more secure than we ever were. My daughter summed it up when she said "don't you realize it's not about security, it's about training us to bow to authority". That is the foundation of authoritarian states, having the citizens live in a state of wariness and fear, always on guard for the potential loss of their freedom.

I am starting to hear airport stories now that make me realize I am not alone in the intense anger I feel every time I fly, strangers pawing through my personal belongings with rubber gloves that have been who knows where, having to stand in bare feet on floors that hundreds of pairs of shoes have just crossed, being threatened with not being allowed to fly if I complain.

And now anyone with doe eyes at the wheel of a car will be ordered to hop along a line and pee in a bottle.

Update: oops got the wrong show Mike Duffy not Politics!