Originally Posted by
randyjawa
The Raleigh would be from Taiwan. Not England or the USA. What would it be? A Taiwanese Raleigh. If it were built in England, it would be an English Raleigh and so on... Unless, of course, your Asian built Raleigh married an American built Raleigh, they yours would become American with the proper paper work:-)
I joke about this because many my really high end vintage Canadian made road bicycles were built by Italian craftsmen, who immigrated to Canada to build bikes. Does that make my Marinoni, or Miele, or CCM Tour du Canada, Italian or Canadian? To me, they are all Canadian. But that is just me.
The difference being that something like the Marinoni was probably actually built in Canada by someone with Canadian citizenship. That gives it the right to be called Canadian. Not all CCM, Marinoni and Miele were Canadian. Legally, it all comes down to whether there was enough Canadian content at the time of manufacture for the Canadian government to permit a Made in Canada sticker.