Guides, data and news on making parts in Canada.
Every article names its sources and the date we checked them.
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Buy Canadian: what counts as Canadian, and what melted and poured means
Steel counts under Buy Canadian only if melted and poured in Canada. The $25 million and $5 million thresholds, the 10% and 25% levers, and what to keep.
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Canada’s machine shops, province by province
Canada had 2,384 machine shops with employees in June 2026, 1,006 of them in Ontario and 704 in Quebec. Statistics Canada counts by province.
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Controlled goods in Canada: registration, drawings and Notice 1159
Who must register in Canada’s Controlled Goods Program, why sending a drawing is a transfer, and what Notice 1159 (5 November 2025) asks of the cloud.
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How a CNC machining quote is built, in 10 lines from metal to tax
The 10 lines of a CNC machining quote and what moves each, why quotes from US platforms read differently, and how a CanadaFab quote reads.
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ITB’s 2x credit for small Canadian businesses, and what a prime needs from your shop
ITB obligations total $83.8 billion, $23.4 billion not identified (ISED, April 2025). How the 2x credit for small shops works, and what to show.
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Machine shop revenue by province in 2024
Ontario and Quebec machine shops earned $5.48 billion of $7.76 billion in 2024, 70.6% of the total. Statistics Canada revenue by province.
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Sourcing metal: mill certificates and the country of melt
Where to buy metal for machined parts in Canada, how to read a mill certificate, and the country of melt that Buy Canadian has counted since 16 December 2025.
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Where $83.8 billion of ITB obligations stand
ISED reports $83.8 billion of ITB obligations, $23.4 billion of it not identified, as of 21 April 2025. The figures by status, checked monthly.