Manufacturer’s agent — Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec

Canadian Lighting Manufacturers

Twenty-one lines built in Canada — nine of them in Ontario. You have good reason to want them right now, and we’re glad to have them on the card. A bid document may also make you prove it.

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Why we made this list

The Buy Ontario Procurement Directive now applies to Ontario public buyers, and it binds more of them than most people expect — ministries and agencies, but also hospitals, school boards, universities and colleges directly. For the City of Ottawa a narrower municipal directive applies, and it reaches capital infrastructure too.

Lighting sits inside it. The Directive’s definition of a major good names mechanical and electrical systems, major fixtures, and fixtures, furniture and equipment included in and incidental to construction — whether bought through the construction contract or separately. New build and renovation are in. Re-lamping a building already in service is not.

The mechanism that reaches a manufacturer is the Domestic Supply Chain Plan: bidders name the source of each major good, and depending on the method the buyer chooses, the bidder with the highest proportion of Ontario-made goods and services can receive a ten per cent evaluation advantage. So Canadian manufacture has stopped being sentiment and become a question your bid documents may make you answer in writing.

We can tell you which of our lines answer that question before the bid, rather than after it.

Ontario

Built in Ontario. For an Ontario public buyer this is the province that counts twice — the Buy Ontario Directive reaches for an Ontario-Made Good before a Canadian-Made one.

3G Lighting🍁Woodbridge
aaline🍁Toronto
Aluminous Lighting Products🍁Bolton
BJ Take🍁Dunnville
Edison Lighting Group🍁Newmarket
Lib&Co.🍁North York
Liteline🍁Richmond Hill
Lumidesign🍁Richmond Hill
Luminiz🍁North York

Quebec

Built in Quebec. Canadian-Made for the purposes of the Directive, and on the doorstep for a Gatineau or Outaouais project.

Arancia Lighting🍁Beauharnois
Eralux🍁Mont-Royal
Lambert & Fils🍁Montréal
Luciole🍁Montréal
Lumacell🍁Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Lumos Cielo🍁Mont-Royal
SACO🍁Montréal

British Columbia

Built in British Columbia. Canadian-Made, and a clean answer wherever the requirement is Canadian content — worth knowing when a bid scores Ontario content separately.

How far this list goes

These are the lines on our card with Canadian manufacturing on relevant product families, grouped by province. It is a starting point for a Domestic Supply Chain Plan, not a substitute for one.

Two distinctions decide most questions, and they are not the same test. A Canadian-Made Good is wholly manufactured in Canada, or has at least 51% of its direct production costs incurred in Canada, or carries a “Made in Canada” or “Product of Canada” label. An Ontario-Made Good applies the wholly-manufactured and 51% tests to Ontario alone, with no labelling route — so a luminaire built in British Columbia is Canadian-Made and is not Ontario-Made, and on an Ontario job that difference can move a score.

Separately, a business being Canadian is a different test again from a good being Canadian-Made. A company can have a Canadian head office and still import the product. That is why this page groups lines by the Canadian manufacturing locations, not by where the company is headquartered. Product origin can vary by SKU, so we do not treat a company name as a blanket Made-in-Canada claim. Where a claim has to go into a bid, we confirm the specific SKU with the factory and get it in writing.

What this means for a US-made fixture

Ontario’s restriction on US businesses applies to the supplier signing the contract, not to its subcontractors, and not to where the product was made. Supply Ontario says so in its own guidance. A US-manufactured luminaire supplied through a Canadian distributor or contractor can be used on an Ontario public project. The restriction does not apply to municipal buyers, whose own directive and local policies apply instead. Either way, the procurement documents govern the specific bid.

That distinction is frequently misunderstood in bid discussions. Federally, the Canadian-materials requirement in force since December 2025 covers steel, aluminum and wood products in qualifying construction and defence procurements, not lighting. A separate federal policy scores Canadian content on large strategic purchases, so read the solicitation. We would rather you heard that from us than found it out halfway through a bid.

Where we fit in the scoring

Specifying through us doesn’t earn anyone a procurement preference, and we’d rather say so plainly: the business test looks at the bidder, usually the electrical contractor, and the content test looks at the product. We are neither.

We will not call any line “certified” Canadian content, because the Directive recognizes no such certificate — it runs on a bidder’s own attestation inside a Domestic Supply Chain Plan. And we won’t quote a threshold from memory; the figures are re-indexed periodically, and a number on a web page ages badly.

Send us the schedule and we’ll check it

Bidding work that needs a Domestic Supply Chain Plan? Tell us the building and the funding, and we’ll go through the schedule line by line: what we can confirm with each factory, what depends on the SKU or configuration, and where you will need the manufacturer’s confirmation in writing for your plan.

The Directive recognizes no certificate for Canadian content — it runs on the bidder’s own attestation. That attestation is yours to sign, so it is worth building on something better than a badge on a website.

Send us your fixture schedule