Ooops--correction:

May I suggest you say "our judges make more sensible decisions"?

Re the legality of filesharing in Canada, the best source for info that I've found is http://www.cippic.ca/en/faqs-resources/file-sharing/

Quote:

According to the Federal Court, in a decision issued by Justice von Finckenstein on March 31, 2004, neither downloading a song for personal use nor merely making that file available to others to download from your computer (without some more active sharing activity) amounts to infringement under Canadian copyright law. The court ruled that "the mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution" or "authorization of the reproduction of sound recordings" under the Copyright Act. However, this decision has been appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal, so the issue remains in legal limbo.

The legality is under pressure and could change, so we need to keep informed. So far our courts have been quite sensible, but the copyright collectives like the CRIA have been working hard to get our politicians to change our laws.