The short answer is yes, considering that several years ago, when I did some research, Toronto already had 15,000 CCTV cameras in public use. That doesn't include what's in stores, cars, cellphones and all the rest of it. Calgary replaced its lamp standards with a new type of light, but the lamp standards themselves, 80,000 of them, are capable of having microphones and high-resolution cameras, watching and listening to everything and everybody.
All too often, we have public bodies not doing the facial recognition or any of these AI-embedded technologies themselves but engaging private sector organizations to do it and getting around the accountability. I would say there needs to be a moratorium on public and private usage of it.