"Alan Baker" wrote in message
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First of all, I can't speak for Canadian law, I have no insight there. All
my experience pertains to the US, and Oklahoma specifically.

Here's the thing: police don't get to stop someone who is doing nothing
suspicious on spec -- at least they shouldn't get to.

The OPs example was walking through the parking lot of a business, probably
closed, at 1 am. In the US it takes very little to meet the threshold of
reasonable suspicion to stop and question a pedestrian. Perhaps a little
more for a moving vehicle, but you don't have to be obviously breaking the
law.


I don't have to prove or even suggest that I have a right to exist.

That depends entirily on where and when you choose to exist, and anything
that might be under investigation in your proximity.