Canadian Lighting Manufacturers

Send us the schedule and we’ll check it

Send it and we’ll tell you what we can confirm, line by line — and where the honest answer is that nobody can tell you yet.

Bidding work that needs a Domestic Supply Chain Plan? Send the schedule. We’ll go through it line by line and come back with what we can confirm with the factory, and where the answer is not knowable yet.

There is no certificate for Canadian content — the Directive 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.

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How far this list goes

These are the lines on our card we have confirmed are built in Canada, grouped by where they are built. 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 same 51% test to Ontario alone — 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 by where a company is based and does not put a Made-in-Canada badge on every line. Where a claim has to go into a bid, we confirm the specific SKU with the factory and get it in writing.

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 no such certificate exists — the Directive 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.

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 a buyer can attach up to a ten per cent evaluation advantage to the highest domestic proportion. 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.