Yep. People like to mock when you refer to this move as such, but that's the only way to describe it. I'm absolutely stunned that something like this could get passed behind closed doors by a small group of provincial cabinet members with no public debate, no legal test, no public announcement, nothing. The police just go to McGuinty, say "we want to be able to arrest people who don't present their papers and submit to be searched, with probable cause thrown out the window, and we want this whole thing kept quiet". And then BAM, it's done.
If what's been done here by the Toronto police and McGuinty is actually legal, then this is an absolutely massive flaw in our political and legal system that must be fixed IMMEDIATELY. Because then there's nothing in place to check the government and police's power and prevent them from inacting these kind of draconian secret rules wherever then want and whenever they what, for whatever reason they want.
