klrman what is up man?
Your original question is a good question, but I think it is very likely you will not get the correct answer. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of small unknown vendors on aliexpress (or ebay) selling lithium ion, so chances are there is little information available here. A member might have bought from the exact same vendor, but you would still not know whether that person received genuine cells or not. You need to do testing etc. It is also possible that the pictures do not match the actual product…
If I were you , I would start a new thread titled “Reliable vendor shipping lithium ion to Canada”. I already did a very quick search, but could not find results too easily. Perhaps you can search first. And once you have found a vendor (surely there must be at least one), then you can look for protected cells.
Check this: 18650 shipping to Canada :sunglasses:
and Shipping to Canada?