Yes, and if you look back a few weeks ago, Brigitte Bureau at Radio-Canada published an article exactly on this issue and interviewed two legal experts. I am not a lawyer and I don't consider myself a legal expert, but one law professor and one lawyer both said that employees, civil servants, do have an expectation of privacy and do have the right to privacy even when they're using government-issued devices. There is a difference between the device itself and the stuff on the device.
On February 15th, 2024. See this statement in context.