No, terrorism is not a fantasy, but if you consider the tragic events in which two Canadian soldiers were assassinated in separate events in Canada in fall 2014, and if you recall the way those events were described, you would have thought all of Canada was under attack, whereas that assessment was largely exaggerated.
In fact, it was used to promote the Anti-terrorism Act of 2015, on which Canadians agreed immediately after the attacks and on which they agreed less and less through the spring of 2015 as they increasingly became aware of what was in that statute.