Here in Canada we had a media-cultivated perception of our politicians as being particularly benign, for decades. In other words, Canadians hold that their politicians are just normal folk and not SERIOUSLY DERANGED POWER-TRIPPING MANIACS. As such, the political inanities of decades trained the sheeple to basically ignore the entire political sphere as a pure waste of time. And suddenly with Operation Lockstep, BAM! you have tyranny. The sheeple got blindsided.