Average citizens in Canada or the U.S. have more to fear from the RCMP, CSIS, the FBI,  the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, the military and all the provincial, state and municipal police forces than they do from Putin, the Russian government or any of its security agencies. The attempt by Western leaders and their media accomplices to foment a climate of paranoid Russophobia is as despicable and as laughable as it was during the first Cold War era. As in the 1950s, the Russians are the go-to villains whenever Western political leaders are looking for way to whittle away what few freedoms remain in our society. The general public needs to educate itself and realize that Russia is not a threat to us and that Putin is not the devil incarnate.