Just bought my second set of glasses from there and went to print up the invoice for insurance, saw the address grrr.

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    I think Kits is the most ‘buycanadian’ of the local alternatives. The frames are sourced from elsewhere, and the lenses and assembly are done in Canada.

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    Were you expecting a .ca website to be Canadian?

    Most websites support .ca, .uk, etc without being stores from that actual country in order to support language or stock differences. E.g. amazon.ca

    If it makes you feel better, eyebuydirect has pretty dang good prices and quality. I use them to buy spares. :)

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      Afaik to register a .ca you either need to either be a Canadian, a permanent resident, some sort of legal entity in Canada (so say Amazon Canada), or the monarch. So this company should have some kind of Canadian presence if they own a .ca.

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            Does it? I just checked most of the way out in godaddy for a made-up .ca domain that was available.

            They only required that I describe the nature of my relationship with Canada. One of the choices was literally “trade-mark registered in Canada.”

            That hardly feels like a requirement to be Canadian.

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              Trademark registered in Canada would be “some sort of legal entity in Canada”. The claim was not that the individual needed to be Canadian and that was the only way.

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                Ok? Is that as simple as registering a bullshit LLC or something, because suddenly it doesn’t sound like you have to be Canadian in any way to get a .ca. I feel like you are leveraging technicalities.

                Btw, is there a source for this or is it just another (trust me bro) assertion?

                There are a fuckton of international treaties that have trademark registration essentially be automatic in participating countries.

                Because I’m curious what else you are trying to say. Literally every international company has to have a presence in Canada to respect trademarks?

                That doesn’t seem realistic.