Canada’s Scaling Problem isn’t Compute, it’s Coastlines

**Submission Statement:**
In November 2025, the Canadian federal government quietly launched a public registry of every AI system used across federal departments. An interesting pattern of “scale” emerged from the database.

When you’re governing the world’s second-largest country, with the longest coastline on Earth and a population scattered across millions of square kilometers, you need machines to help watch what people can’t.