This is what a police state looks like. Over 100 checkpoints now in place in Ottawa. Police will now ask you what reason you have for being downtown, whether you’re in a car or on foot.
https://twitter.com/ottawapolice/status/1495773165221470213?s=21
It's none of their darn business what anyone's reason is for traveling downtown. This is a free country.
Unless the cops they have reasonable suspicion that you have committed a crime it's literally none of their business. That's how the law works. Except not under the Emergencies Act where they have curbed the right to peaceful protest, assembly, and freedom of movement.