For a while after knowing that the USA enacted a ban on full power halophosphate F40T12 fluorescent tubes, full power halophosphate F96T12 slimline fluorescent tubes, and full power halophosphate F96T12 HO fluorescent tubes without the “cold temperature” rating in 1995 and later banned most F40T12 tubes, F96T12 slimline fluorescent tubes, and F96T12 HO tubes excluding the “cold temperature” tubes without a CRI below 87 in 2012; I have been wondering if Canada enacted those fluorescent bans at around the same time or if there was a window of time where any “export only” F40T12 tubes, F96T12 slimline tubes, and F96T12 HO tubes without the “cold temperature” rating that were sold in Canada even after those EPACT bans took place.

Fluorescent lamp and ballast offerings in Canada largely followed that of the US. I remember being annoyed that the 700 series F40T12s were no longer available after 2012. Magnetic ballasts were no longer available for F40T12, F96T12, F96T12/HO after 2010.

Now for ballasts Canada had similar regulations as the US, not sure for the 1995 and 2012 bans, it might just be economies of scale so the same lamp can be sold in the larger US market but during that the two bans, Canada still had domestic fluorescent lamp production.

Now mercury fixtures were never banned in Canada in 2008 and it was possible to buy 175w MV yardlights new in Canada until 2018/2019 when stores started stocking LED yardlights instead. 

I did see that there was a Canadian collector who somehow got some Philips F96T12/CW/XPT lamps in their collection, but they seemed to have secretly been imported into Canada somehow:

https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=0&pid=45189