Canada Regional Governments

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Upper-tier and regional governments: counties and regional municipalities, regional districts and MRCs.

Index 12.1 · scanned 2026-11-02 · up to 32 URLs per site · 148 organizations · 130 scanned (87.8% coverage) · scored as government

Median score 57 across 130 sites
Middle half 52–62 spread around the median
Full range 28–72 lowest to highest
Gated 49 of 130 block AI crawlers outright

Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.

Where this list came from

The source, and how we filtered it

Source Upper-tier and regional governments, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing; Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec; Province of British Columbia (BC Geographic Warehouse); Statistics Canada; Wikidata (Ontario list 2022-10-05; MAMH Répertoire 2026-10-30; BC regional districts read 2026-11-02; 2021 Census)
LicenseOntario's list of municipalities under the Open Government Licence – Ontario (read 2026-11-05); CC BY 4.0 (Données Québec); Open Government Licence – British Columbia; Statistics Canada Open Licence; Wikidata CC0 1.0. Every one permits commercial republishing with attribution.
Cite asContains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec, Répertoire des municipalités du Québec, Données Québec, CC BY 4.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0002-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
How we filtered itOntario: the 30 'Upper Tier' entries and their linked sites. Quebec: every MRC, metropolitan community and regional administration in the MAMH Répertoire, with its own website, plus the regional government in MUN.csv. BC: the 27 regional districts (Stikine Region, unincorporated, dropped), addresses from Wikidata P856 on the census-division code.
Built2026-11-02

The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.

Distribution

Where the 130 sites land

GradeShare of the cohort SitesShare
Weak
73 56.2%
Adequate
46 35.4%
Not ready
11 8.5%
By dimension

What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension

The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.

DimensionMean share earned Mean
#1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information.
76%
#2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it?
58%
#3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are?
28%
#4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget.
54%
How much of each site we read

The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.

1 site in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.

Where this cohort fails

10 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes

Universal — nobody passes these 10 checks · 3 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
EXT-11 Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question?
100.0%
130 0
EXT-12 Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes?
100.0%
130 0
EXT-14 Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools?
100.0%
125 0
EXT-16 Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run?
100.0%
130 0
EXT-17 Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records?
100.0%
127 0
EXT-18 Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay?
100.0%
2 0
EXT-2 Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them?
100.0%
10 0
RED-10 Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages?
100.0%
109 2
RED-12 If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it?
100.0%
130 2
UND-2 Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish?
100.0%
130 3
Near-universal — 95% and above 3 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
UND-1 Does your site say clearly who you are?
99.2%
130 2
UND-5 Does the author label in your page code point to that person?
98.1%
104 1
EXT-1 Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants?
97.7%
130 0
Common — 90 to 95% 6 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
PST-2 Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content?
94.6%
130 0
UND-10 Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere?
93.8%
130 2
EXT-13 Can an assistant ask your site a question directly?
93.1%
130 0
EXT-4 Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool?
92.3%
130 0
PST-4 Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read?
92.3%
130 0
MSR-7 Are you set up in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and do you read their AI reports?
91.5%
130 0

Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.

Every site

Every 148, named, with a report for each

Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.

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SiteScore GatedPages read Report
Capital Regional District crd.bc.caregister id cd:5917; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 59 No 2
Cariboo Regional District cariboord.caregister id cd:5941; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
Central Coast Regional District ccrd.caregister id cd:5945; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 59 Gated 32
Columbia Shuswap Regional District csrd.bc.cablockedregister id cd:5939; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Comox Valley Regional District comoxvalleyrd.caregister id cd:5926; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 57 No 32
Cowichan Valley Regional District cvrd.caregister id cd:5919; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
Fraser Valley Regional District fvrd.caregister id cd:5909; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 56 No 32
Metro Vancouver Regional District metrovancouver.orgregister id cd:5915; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 41 No 32
North Coast Regional District ncrdbc.comregister id cd:5947; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
Peace River Regional District prrd.bc.caregister id cd:5955; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 60 Gated 32
qathet Regional District qathet.caregister id cd:5927; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 69 No 32
Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot acrd.bc.caregister id cd:5923; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 50 No 32
Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako rdbn.bc.caregister id cd:5951; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Regional District of Central Kootenay rdck.caregister id cd:5903; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
Regional District of Central Okanagan rdco.comregister id cd:5935; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 56 Gated 32
Regional District of East Kootenay rdek.bc.caregister id cd:5901; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Regional District of Fraser-Fort George rdffg.bc.caregister id cd:5953; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 32
Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine rdks.bc.caregister id cd:5949; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
Regional District of Kootenay Boundary rdkb.comblockedregister id cd:5905; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Regional District of Mount Waddington rdmw.bc.caregister id cd:5943; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 70 No 32
Regional District of Nanaimo rdn.bc.caregister id cd:5921; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 57 Gated 1
Regional District of North Okanagan rdno.caregister id cd:5937; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen rdos.bc.caregister id cd:5907; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District slrd.bc.caregister id cd:5931; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 71 No 32
Strathcona Regional District srd.caregister id cd:5924; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
Sunshine Coast Regional District scrd.caregister id cd:5929; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
Thompson-Nicola Regional District tnrd.cablockedregister id cd:5933; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
County of Bruce brucecounty.on.caregister id cd:3541; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 59 No 32
County of Dufferin dufferincounty.cablockedregister id cd:3522; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
County of Elgin elgincounty.caregister id cd:3534; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 57 Gated 32
County of Essex countyofessex.on.caregister id cd:3537; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 33 Gated 1
County of Frontenac frontenacislands.caregister id cd:3510; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 54 Gated 32
County of Grey grey.caregister id cd:3542; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 59 Gated 32
County of Haliburton haliburtoncounty.caregister id cd:3546; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 55 Gated 32
County of Hastings hastingscounty.comblockedregister id cd:3512; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
County of Huron huroncounty.caregister id cd:3540; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 38 Gated 32
County of Lambton lambtononline.caregister id cd:3538; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 52 No 2
County of Lanark lanarkcounty.cablockedregister id cd:3509; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county. The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
County of Lennox and Addington lennox-addington.on.caregister id cd:3511; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 34 Gated 1
County of Middlesex middlesex.caregister id cd:3539; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 67 No 32
County of Northumberland northumberland.caregister id cd:3514; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 63 No 32
County of Oxford oxfordcounty.caregister id cd:3532; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 49 No 32
County of Perth perthcounty.caregister id cd:3531; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 59 Gated 32
County of Peterborough ptbocounty.caregister id cd:3515; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county. The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root 57 Gated 31
County of Renfrew countyofrenfrew.on.caregister id cd:3547; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 56 Gated 32
County of Simcoe simcoe.caregister id cd:3543; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 57 No 32
County of Wellington wellington.caregister id cd:3523; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 64 No 32
District Municipality of Muskoka muskoka.on.caregister id cd:3544; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 63 No 32
Regional Municipality of Durham durham.caregister id cd:3518; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 57 Gated 32
Regional Municipality of Halton halton.caregister id cd:3524; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 57 Gated 32
Regional Municipality of Niagara niagararegion.caregister id cd:3526; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 56 Gated 32
Regional Municipality of Peel peelregion.caregister id cd:3521; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 61 No 32
Regional Municipality of Waterloo region.waterloo.on.caregister id cd:3530; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 63 No 1
Regional Municipality of York york.caregister id cd:3519; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 59 No 32
United Counties of Leeds and Grenville leedsgrenville.comregister id cd:3507; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county. The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root 53 Gated 32
United Counties of Prescott and Russell prescott-russell.on.caregister id cd:3502; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 51 No 32
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry sdg.on.caregister id cd:3501; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; Population is the census division's, which includes any city separated from the county 68 No 1
Administration régionale Kativik krg.caregister id mamh:AR992; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 48 No 1
Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal cmm.qc.cablockedregister id mamh:CM663; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
Communauté métropolitaine de Québec cmquebec.qc.caregister id mamh:CM235; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 45 Gated 32
Gouvernement régional d'Eeyou Istchee Baie-James greibj.caregister id mamh:99060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 57 No 1
MRC Abitibi mrcabitibi.qc.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR880; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it — No —
MRC Abitibi-Ouest mrcao.qc.caregister id mamh:AR870; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 55 No 32
MRC Acton mrcacton.caregister id mamh:AR480; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 35 Gated 32
MRC Antoine-Labelle mrcal.caregister id mamh:AR790; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 51 No 32
MRC Argenteuil argenteuil.qc.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR760; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it — No —
MRC Arthabaska mrcarthabaska.caregister id mamh:AR390; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
MRC Avignon mrcavignon.comregister id mamh:AR060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
MRC Beauce-Centre mrcbeaucecentre.caregister id mamh:AR270; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
MRC Beauce-Sartigan mrcbeaucesartigan.comblockedregister id mamh:AR290; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
MRC Beauharnois-Salaberry mrcbhs.caregister id mamh:AR700; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
MRC Bécancour mrcbecancour.qc.caregister id mamh:AR380; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 58 No 32
MRC Bellechasse bellechasse.caregister id mamh:AR190; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 44 No 32
MRC Bonaventure mrcbonaventure.comregister id mamh:AR050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 68 No 32
MRC Brome-Missisquoi mrcbm.qc.caregister id mamh:AR460; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
MRC Caniapiscau caniapiscau.caunreachableregister id mamh:AR972; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it — No —
MRC Charlevoix mrccharlevoix.caregister id mamh:AR160; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 44 Gated 32
MRC Charlevoix-Est mrccharlevoixest.caregister id mamh:AR150; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 53 Gated 32
MRC Coaticook mrcdecoaticook.qc.caregister id mamh:AR440; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 51 Gated 32
MRC D'Autray mrcautray.qc.caregister id mamh:AR520; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 65 No 32
MRC Des Chenaux mrcdeschenaux.caregister id mamh:AR372; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 62 No 31
MRC Deux-Montagnes mrc2m.qc.caregister id mamh:AR720; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 56 No 2
MRC Drummond mrcdrummond.qc.caregister id mamh:AR490; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
MRC Joliette mrcjoliette.qc.caregister id mamh:AR610; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 52 No 32
MRC Kamouraska mrckamouraska.comblockedregister id mamh:AR140; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
MRC L'Assomption mrclassomption.qc.caregister id mamh:AR600; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
MRC L'Érable erable.caregister id mamh:AR320; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 62 No 32
MRC L'Île-d'Orléans iledorleans.comregister id mamh:AR200; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 55 No 1
MRC L'Islet mrclislet.comregister id mamh:AR170; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 33 Gated 1
MRC La Côte-de-Beaupré mrccotedebeaupre.comregister id mamh:AR210; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 34 Gated 32
MRC La Côte-de-Gaspé cotedegaspe.caregister id mamh:AR030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 59 No 32
MRC La Haute-Côte-Nord mrchcn.qc.caregister id mamh:AR950; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 52 No 32
MRC La Haute-Gaspésie hautegaspesie.comregister id mamh:AR040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 66 No 32
MRC La Haute-Yamaska haute-yamaska.caregister id mamh:AR470; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 60 No 32
MRC La Jacques-Cartier mrc.jacques-cartier.comblockedregister id mamh:AR220; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
MRC La Matanie lamatanie.caregister id mamh:AR080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 52 Gated 32
MRC La Matapédia mrcmatapedia.qc.caregister id mamh:AR070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 54 No 32
MRC La Mitis mrcmitis.caregister id mamh:AR090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 63 No 32
MRC La Nouvelle-Beauce nouvellebeauce.comregister id mamh:AR260; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 64 No 32
MRC La Rivière-du-Nord mrcrdn.qc.caregister id mamh:AR750; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it 63 No 32

Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.