"It has long been known the Mounties kept an eye on a wide array of people and organizations – from church and gay rights groups to Quebec separatists and Communists."

Those who oppose the staus quo and the prevailing orthodoxy of the day have always been the enemy within that the state is most concerned about; they are persecuted relentlessly while the public at large is duped, made to fear the spectre of some foreign boogeyman. Last century it was Communism, this century it is terrorism. The language changes but the tactics never have. 

Something to ruminate on next time you're told we need sweeping new surveillance powers to fight scary foreign terrorists, and that if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.