A few weeks ago I was talking to a guy at a show and shine and he indicated it wasn't that simple to register a home built vehicle anymore. He was OK because his was registered before 2014 when there was a change in the rules. I couldn't find the date on that link and the owner of the website is US based. The guy I was talking to felt the deletion of the vehicle category wasn't intentional and may be reinstated. I wouldn't hold my breath, expecting the MOT to give it priority.
There are / were differences between home built and kit built but gather they were both hit with the change in wording.
I wouldn't want to spend tens of thousands on a custom vehicle only to find that it couldn't be registered. I wouldn't trust the clerk at the local licencing office to give accurate information either. "Oops, sorry" after you've spent $50K or more.
A bit of the federal regs are:
Importing completed kit cars into Canada
If you want to import a completed kit car or a reproduction vehicle that can be driven, you must provide proof that it meets all safety standards for the passenger car class. There is no difference under the Act between assembled and disassembled vehicles.
Most kit cars do not qualify to be imported to Canada. The exceptions are kit cars that are over 15 years old.
Kit cars older than 15 years are not regulated by the Motor Vehicle Safety Act. They are referred to as "age-exempt." This means that you can import the completed kit car into Canada if it meets entry requirements from the Canada Border Services Agency.
Then you have to look up whether the province is OK with the project.
Note that the above mostly applies to cages but I don't see MOT just waving bikes through. However safety regs are lighter on bikes in many ways. Seat belts and crash zones etc. Emissions aren't as heavily policed.
I don't trust American sources of legal information either.
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