Yes, the OPP operational handling has actually gotten a lot of praise. I'm not going to join that bandwagon. My concern is that intelligence operations started with respect to indigenous occupations. Also, some of the product we've seen uses phrases like “the patriot movement”, which don't really seem to me to strike down.
Although the RCMP and CSIS are subject to fairly rigorous scrutiny by NSIRA, the OPP and municipal forces, when they collect intelligence, are subject to very limited scrutiny, only by the Ontario independent police review director, if that person has enough resources to do systemic reviews. My understanding is that they don't.
Again, this may be another reason for the federal arms to play a lead role, because we cannot guarantee adequate levels of accountability at the provincial level.