🇨🇦 Montreal police hid an AI dragnet until a camera got caught

SPVM only yanked its Cloudrunner CR-H2 after a reporter spotted it bolted to a lamp post on Henri-Bourassa. That tells you everything. If this was such a lawful, tightly governed tool, why the panic removal act. Police spokesman Marc-Antoine Bélanger says secrecy protects investigations, while the force quietly expands AI surveillance that catalogs vehicle colour, make and model, not just plates, as reported. Translation: trust us, citizen, while we build the machine in the dark.

And of course it is all wrapped in the usual technocrat incense, closed networks, offline databases, no facial recognition, scouts honour. The same bureaucracy that cannot control borders, violent repeat offenders, or urban disorder somehow has endless appetite for tracking ordinary people with Genetec hardware and Rank One Computing software. Trudeau-era Canada is a place where the state is weak on chaos, ruthless on surveillance, and allergic to transparency. Sovereignty for citizens shrinks while the managerial class gets sharper tools and fewer limits.

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