Now that guy was OTT, but that's what it has become over here. The police (especially the provincial ones) have been instructed to be more adversarial and underhanded by their superiors, so the SOP here is to start the recorder on your phone as soon as you get pulled over, and answer any questions with I don't remember, I don't recall, or your question is worded to entrap me, and I can't answer it without consulting someone versed in the Highway Traffic Act first.