Looks like an effort to reduce the amount of mercury floating around, rather than additional energy efficiency improvements. Not surprising in the least; it's been an increasing trend in the last years.

And with initatives like the National strategy for lamps containing mercury, vintage lighting equipment is going to disappear FAST.

At least they make it sorta-kinda clear that ownership is not covered by these regulations. But even if it eventually were, my incandescent lamps don't contain any mercury so who's laughing now! 

I'd be careful with any sale involving bulbs crossing the border though, even on auction sites and the like. Buying a lamp covered by regulation from outside Canada and having it shipped to a Canadian location makes the buyer an importer, legally speaking. While it's true that a single lamp may not even draw any attention and slip right through, the buyer is still technically in violation. That's playing with fire really. Bonus points if it says right on the customs declaration "MERCURY LAMP". I would certainly not take that risk personally, I would rather pull the plug on this whole lamp collecting business. Wait, I already kinda did, so never mind LOL.

Why not to ban tuna because it contains way more mercury than fluorescent and HID lamps...
And what about other way more poisoning materials that used to make LED lamps that aren't used to make fluorescent and HID lamps?
LED lamp manufacturing producing much more mercury than fluorescent and HID lamps manufacturing, as well as other poisoning metals that aren't emitted from regular lamp manufacturing.
There were also mercury free HPS lamps, which are only very slightly less efficient than regular HPS lamps.
What a BS all of these thing that politics wants to do with the regular lighting.

I usually get it at auto parts stores but it seems like HD has it too.

I've never heard of PB Blaster. Sounds like it might be good to have around?
Is it something you can just get at a normal hardware store?

PB Blaster is miles ahead of WD-40 at loosening stuck and frozen parts IMO. And some well placed heat usually does the trick.

 

Mine consists of Lights , lamps , gear , old cars and parts , tools , Old radios , a few jukeboxes and I'm sure there's a partridge in a pear tree in here somewhere !

Ofcourse by 'lights' I mean lights & related parts (though the Christmas lights part far surpasses the fluorescent in amount of space 'wasted')

I forgot about the collection of old stereo junk I have too .. there's a bunch more wasted space!

Oh and .lol. I do actually have a pear tree out in the yard (never seen a partridge though! (at one point years ago, I tried to find a plastic one to put in it as a joke))

Thanks ! I just noticed that I don't seem to have a photo of it either !

My old cell phone had the theme music to Sanford & Son if that tells you anything ! The fun thing is finding things you didn't know you have !  Last night , I found a GE 700w clear in the blue and yellow sleeve at the bottom of one of my lamp totes that I don't remember buying ! DOH !

Great find!...especially considering how hard they are to find nowadays!

Not today, but last light-related thing I did was convert a 8xF54T5 fixture to 8xF28T5 (one of the ballasts was bad so only 4 lamps lit, and I don't need that much brightness)
Similar to this fixture , just a different brand.

After the conversion was complete, it got installed inplace of this homebuilt thing ...

 Mine consists of Lights , lamps , gear , old cars and parts , tools , Old radios , a few jukeboxes and I'm sure there's a partridge in a pear tree in here somewhere !