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Contrary to popular belief most courts worldwide will accept such recordings or even answering machine tapes. It is also completely legal in many cases to tape telephone ocnversations without notifying the other party.

The telecom act and privacy laws state that you cannot record a conversation as a THIRD party unless ONE of the two other parties is aware of it. Though it is often challenged on a case by case basis and can be overruled by the Supreme Court for special circumstances, it will stick for the most part.

In other words, I can't secretly tape a conversation between two people but if someone asks me to tape a conversation, within reason, or if someone tapes a conversation themselves, especially for legal purposes, it is just fine.

I worked for the CRTC monitoring and recoding sales calls from call centres and had to rely on this law constantly. I also used it in my divorce and have seen it used many times since while sitting in on similar cases.