Didn't vote because not Canadian, but:
I have sent emails to European MEPs in the past. My experience is that you will get a response from maybe 3 out of the 21 MEPs that Belgium had (at the time).
I especially liked the one time where Kathleen van Brempt went like, since your email wasn't the canned one from the campaign, here's my personal reply on top of my canned response.
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@Jeremy I've written my MP many many times about many things that I disagree with him on (which is... pretty much everything). The only time he ever responded was months after I wrote and called his office, when he cold-called me(!) to talk about the SpaceX space debris that fell in his riding months earlier. He's never responded to a single other email I've sent his office.
@Jeremy my MP called me extremist on Twitter. (when it was called like that)
@Jeremy Not voting because I'm in the UK, but my MP has a very clear pattern of replying after the relevant vote/debate/whatever has happened, and then just sending me the party-line statement, regardless of whether it addresses any of the specific points I raised in my email. It is not democratically inspiring.
It absolutely made my day too! It's the reason I'm even naming her personally 😉