If the sole is cemented rather than stitched, you are buying a consumable.
Cattle and energy built a manufacturing base around one requirement: it has to work at minus thirty, loaded, far from a parts counter.
Beef, honestly labelled
Ask for the processor, not just the ranch. Alberta's advantage is a short chain between the two, and the good sellers will tell you both names without being pushed.
Boots and workwear
Resoleable construction is the whole test. If the sole is cemented rather than stitched, you are buying a consumable.
Equipment and trailers
Trailers, augers, livestock handling, oilfield fabrication. Unglamorous, exported worldwide, and the category where Canadian-built genuinely costs less over ten years.