Were the alleged Canadian terrorists too stupid to take a hint?

According to the Toronto Star, the alleged terrorists were stupid.

Their so-called training camp turns out to have been a swath of bush near Washago, where their activities — shooting off firearms and playing paintball — were so obvious and so irritating that local residents immediately called police.
Serious terrorists ... base their operations in remote areas where no one will bother them. These suspects, it is alleged, simply trespassed on someone's farm and, when the owner told them to leave, gave him lip.

Consider the report that RCMP engages in disruptive tactics to deter and forestall terrorist acts.

The RCMP has quietly broken up at least a dozen terrorist groups in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail...
Disruptive tactics -- sometimes as simple as letting targets know they are under close surveillance -- are used to prevent a terrorist attack when the police do not have enough evidence to lay criminal charges, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service say.

Perhaps their operation was permitted to go as far as they did because they weren't an uncontrollable threat (as evidenced by the successful sting operation), and the likelihood that they were too stupid to take a hint to stop.