🇨🇦 How 9/11 changed Canadian airport security

The absurdity is right there in the peanut butter test: 460 millilitres is a threat, but any number of containers under 100 ml is apparently civilized and safe. That is the genius of the modern security state Canada built after 9/11, a hodgepodge of rules officials openly admit can look arbitrary, capricious, and inconsistent, as reported. Translation: the public gets rituals, bureaucracy gets permanence, and everyone is told to stop noticing the contradiction.

The article says the system was born in fear, urgency, and incomplete information. Fair enough in a crisis. The problem is how emergency logic never dies. It metastasizes into permanent habit, more agencies, more data-sharing, more checkpoints, more multinational coordination, and a public trained to accept inconvenience as the price of admission. That is the real post-9/11 legacy: not just hardened cockpit doors, but a political culture where temporary measures become infrastructure and unpredictability becomes an excuse for unaccountable power. Once government builds a machine in panic, it never volunteers to shrink it.

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