I'm from BC too, Lower mainland
the smart meters are easily worked around. Due to a lovely loophole! The meters themselves emit a radio frequency, and by regulation here, anything that emits a radio frequency must have a particular permit for install. The hydro company is not installing the meters directly, they have enlisted the help of an American company that is familiar with the technology. However! They don't have the proper permits to install these devices. Secondly! if you build a lockable box around your hydro meter, it's against the law for the "installer" to do anything to it as long as you leave a space for the old meter to be read! Since it's against the law for someone to tamper with a private residence! as long as you leave the original meter untouched.
The smart meters were essentially "back charging" people that had them installed on their homes for years and years worth of miscalculations made by the current meters... Talk about crooks...
I had a pork chopper circling my house the other night just after I had turned my lights all off after my harvest. Flying low in circles around just my house for a good 30 minutes. I don't have a smart meter installed on my house though.