CMCO Group brings together every Canadian-owned manufacturer in this sector. Canadian ownership is the membership criterion, and it is the point: decisions about these plants, these jobs and this investment are made in Canada.

Our members

• Domtech Inc. — Trenton, Ontario. Jag Singh, Co-President.
• Northern Cables Inc. — Brockville, Ontario. Todd Stafford, President.
• Deca Cables Inc. — Trenton, Ontario. Darrell Edgett, President & CEO.
• PTI Cables Inc. — Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Daniel Lieberman, President.
• Shawflex, a Mattr company — Vaughan, Ontario. Jarrod Shugg, Vice President & General Manager.

Between them, our members employ more than 700 people.

Where we manufacture

• Vaughan, Ontario — Shawflex
• Trenton, Ontario — Domtech and Deca Cables
• Brockville, Ontario — Northern Cables
• Pointe-Claire, Quebec — PTI Cables

Our plants sit along the Ontario–Quebec corridor, in towns where a cable plant is a significant local employer rather than one address among many.

Why Canadian ownership matters

When a company changes hands, the people in the boardroom look at share prices, market share and tax structures. For the people on the clock — the operators, the electricians, the drivers, the schedulers — the country on the ownership certificate is not a legal detail. It decides whether the plant they work in has a future.

Decisions get made where the work is done

Our owners live under the same laws, pay the same taxes and feel the same economy as the people they employ. The distance between the boardroom and the breakroom is short, and it is measured in metres rather than time zones.

When a plant belongs to a foreign parent or a private equity fund, the people deciding whether to run a second shift, retool a line or close a building are thousands of kilometres away. They have never walked the floor, and they will not meet a laid-off employee at the grocery store on Saturday.

The plant stays even when it would be cheaper to move it

This is the part that matters right now. Facing a 50% tariff into the United States and dumped product coming the other way, a foreign owner has an obvious option: supply the Canadian market from a plant somewhere else and close the Canadian one. A Canadian owner does not have that option, and would not take it if they did. The plant is the business, and the business is here.

The money stays in the community

Profits earned by a Canadian-owned manufacturer tend to be spent where they are earned — on new equipment, on capacity, on local suppliers, on the apprentices and skilled trades our plants depend on. Under foreign ownership, earnings leave to satisfy shareholders elsewhere, and the towns hosting the plants get the employment risk without the reinvestment.

Why this belongs in procurement policy

Canadian ownership is not sentiment. It is the reason there is a domestic cable industry to buy from at all. Requiring Canadian-made cable in publicly funded projects is what keeps that capacity here, and keeps the option of supplying it ourselves.

How the group works

CMCO Group is an informal coalition, not an incorporated body. There is no separate company, no staff and no membership fee. Our members remain wholly independent businesses that compete with one another in the market every day.

What we share is a position. When the interests of Canadian-owned cable manufacturing are at stake — in trade policy, in procurement rules, in trade-remedy cases — we put our names to it together, because five voices saying the same thing carry further than five saying it separately.

Enquiries to the group can be sent to info@cmcogroup.ca. Questions about an individual member company are best directed to that company.