Well, the way it works here is CSE (Communications Security Establishment) in Canada and the US have agreements where... Canada can spy on US citizens and US can spy on Canadian citizens. At least that's how it was, don't know how it is nowadays.

That way neither country is effectively spying on their own citizens.

I don't believe the phone companies are recording every convo but if someone is being targeted by a spy agency well, they can have access to it but that is so far ago, these days I'm not sure how it works.

I do know that the RCMP were given a lot of powers to access phone data,

And this is all public knowledge.