The Criminal Code of Canada's section 184.2.c.i-ii DOES NOT warrant them to do packet sniffing. It allows them to ONLY 'sample' traffic for quality reasons. You need to remember that these rules were drafted to stop people making their own wire taps on phone technology. What the statement is saying is that: If I am a phone tech I am allowed to connect to the line to check for hums/crackels/dead-service and then do my job to fix it. With Internet traffic you may not capture a person's traffic unless a court order is issued to do so. The subject of traffic shaping is very different...They are looking into packet headers and making changes that are not a privacy issue...I recommend anyone interested in this to read the Lawful Access Consultation document on the justice.gc.ca website (google it).
meekalbot: reading/capturing a person's traffic is not necessary for keeping the system running and in court a telco would get shot down. Again those rules pertain to a pre-IP world...
