Ask a Quebec maker for a repair policy before you ask for a discount.
Quebec treats manufacturing as culture. That is not a marketing line, it is a policy history: generations of tanneries, cheese caves, furniture shops and textile mills that were kept alive because losing them was understood as losing something else.
Leather that is still tanned here
Vegetable-tanned hide finished in the Eastern Townships behaves differently from imported corrected grain. It scars, it patinas, and it lasts long enough that repair matters more than replacement. Ask a Quebec maker for a repair policy before you ask for a discount, because most of them have one.
Cheese caves, not cheese factories
Quebec holds the deepest raw-milk tradition in the country. Look for the affinage detail on the label: the number of days in the cave tells you more about what you are buying than the price does.
How to buy it well
Buy from the maker or from a shop that names the maker. If nobody on the page will tell you who made the thing, the answer is usually that it was not made here.