I'm guilty of this but at the same time I think there's some amount of justification in it. You can read this as me simply rationalizing my own behavior but while many parts are from Chinese manufactures the product standards all meet local Canadian expectations. I order PCBs from a cheap Chinese fab house which charges me pennies on the dollar for four layer PCBs compared to what I'd have to pay for locally in Canada. In getting there though I went through two manufactures who I stopped doing business with after having the boards they sent me tested in a lab only to find residues of benzene and other harmful processing chemicals. I get my metal parts made at a Chinese fab house but at the same time I order the stock myself and have it shipped to the machine shop so they only take care of shaping. None it it is "chinesium" it's all either C27000 brass stock or A10 steel. The major thing I still have done locally is leatherwork because in trying various manufacturers in China everything they sent me contained formaldehyde and many of them smelled like it.

Assembly is done locally so I'm legally required to say it is made in Canada all the same, but even so I like to think that when something is assembled in a country it is being held to the expectations of that countries manufacturing standards at the same time. So while much of what I use might be made overseas it's all made to the standard one would expect from Canadian manufacturing. Again you can think whatever you want about whether I'm simply justifying my own actions but I do feel after going through the motions myself that the "made in" label brings with it an expectation of a level of quality assurance consistent with that country of origin.